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Take Initiative or Get Out of the Way

Gary Ryan Blair — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:00:15 +0000

Let’s begin with a question; what have you done lately to demonstrate initiative and a willingness to go the extra mile in your own life?

This question asks you to demonstrate that you can recognize what tasks need to be completed, when those tasks need to be completed, and how those tasks are going to be completed.

Your answer and behavior demonstrate you ability to think outside the square and display a passion for work.

Initiative can be defined as your ability to activate yourself to do something even if no one has asked you to do it.

Take Initiative

In our highly competitive world, your ability to consistently demonstrate initiative is a true competitive advantage as the vast majority of people lean towards procrastination and hesitation as their operative performance state.

Your life doesn’t just “happen.” Whether you know it, like it, or simply choose to dismiss this reality, your life is carefully designed by you.

The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. you choose sadness. you choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear.

You also choose to take initiative and take control of your future, or you choose to suck your thumb and wait for someone to tell you what to do.

Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. At any moment of your life, you can choose to take initiative or to offer up an excuse to procrastinate.

And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.

Take the 100 Day Challenge and you’ll learn the true secret to taking initiative and proactive behavior!

Be Unreasonable

Gary Ryan Blair — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:00:05 +0000

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Highly successful people are driven by the pursuit and achievement of unreasonable expectations. They are unreasonable in what they expect from themselves, in the demands they make, and in how much of themselves that they can give.

As a result they take enormous pride in their work and become the leaders which inspire or intimidate through their actions.

The vast majority of people on the other hand settle for a small squeak of their potential because they bought into the belief that simply being reasonable is the way to go. How foolish and casualty creating that belief is.

The reasonable person adapts themselves to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adopt the world to himself. Therefore, all large, significant and lasting progress depends on the unreasonable person.

True success is achieved by the minority of people and requires an unconventional way of thinking. Great achievements are, have been, and will always be the results of unreasonable people driven by unreasonable expectations and standards.

The only way to create big giant breakthrough results is to take the road less traveled–to set goals and plans that are unreasonable–and going for it.

Progress is made only by unreasonable men and women, so take the 100 Day Challenge and dare to be unreasonable!

Behavior Never Lies

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:00:06 +0000

Walk the Talk

Practice what you preach; do as you say, walk the talk, and actions speak louder than words are all derivatives of what I believe are the three most important words in your life—behavior never lies!

Who you really are is defined by your behavior, not your words.

When a person’s words and behaviors are not in sync, the result is fraud, hypocritical behavior.

The disconnect between what people say versus what they actually do steals trust, sends mixed messages, distorts reality, undermines clear communication, and creates doubt.

It negatively impacts all parties, the giver and receiver. The challenge we all face is to balance the spoken word with our actions.

I can tell you this with complete confidence, that by examining your behavior and results, I can see a clear picture of your commitment, I can gain an innate sense of your character, I can grasp a near perfect understanding of your beliefs, and I can most certainly see what you are really made of.

Your behavior is a reflection of what you believe to be true about yourself. Your behavior tells me how you think, your behavior tells me how you talk about yourself even when no one’s around, and your behavior tells me what you do every single day.

To learn how to walk your talk and to ensure that you learn the behavior and habit patterns of highly successful, check out the 100 Day Challenge.