Reflections No.117 August 10 – Knowing what to count
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Ben Hewitt showed me how to count what counts.
I had been only counting the score of how much my coaching team were billing.
That did not fully feed me – my intent is To Transform.
So Ben encouraged me to begin to also count the transformations that my work is making.
Already I feel more nourished by my achievement.
Learn
So I learn that I am nourished by an earn, a learn or a transformation.
My learn this month is from a link that Chris Howe sent me of a TED lecture given by Sir Ken Robinson where he shares his beliefs on our education system and how it is damaging our children’s creativity. This is just under 20 minutes long and very enjoyable. http://tinyurl.com/mluw5k
Live
This is lifted from the last link
Happiness can be defined as the ration of wanting what you have to having what you want.
Love
I am grateful to Dawn Scott for sharing her story.
“As it is my birthday today I thought I would share this with you. It has only taken me 48 years to realise that the more you love people openly and explicitly, the more you are loved in return and this just makes that lovely feeling grow even stronger. So with that in mind I brought into work some birthday goodies for the people I am working with at present and in return for a goodie I asked each of them to write down one thing that they love about their life right now. I left the stuff in the kitchen with the page to write on. The response has been fab – people have taken time to really think about something good for once (instead of all the worry stuff they carry around) and it has caused quite a stir. I am enjoying the reaction each time someone new goes into the kitchen and so far this is a selection of what people have shared:
Getting “Huggles” from my children
Happy bees; cheerful chickens
Walking in a thunder storm; rain in my wellies Starting my morning with a nuzzle from someone who gives me unconditional love Getting a “buzz” in the morning from my friends My boy’s smile when I get home The joy of my grandchildren Family first last and always”
Luck
I recently appointed another group of Discordian Saints.
I expect them to go and produce miracles
Recommendations
Toy Story 3 needs watching. Beautifully crafted story telling. The Karate Kid is worth watching for Jackie Chan.
And - I recommend that you come on the final Enjoy Making an Impact master class this year 18- 19 October in Reading – four places left of a total class of 8 as I write. This is the last class at £995 plus vat – increase to £1195 next year.
Ping a note to valpercival@btconnect.com for an enrolment form
Reflections No.116 – July 2010 Some keys to extraordinary performance
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I am grateful to Mike Ford for introducing me to the work of Dan Pink, who has some good ideas about what drives us.
Stick and carrot is so last season.
What matters now, apparently, is our desire for Mastery, our wish to be self directed – Autonomy and a strong sense of Purpose.
Invest 11 minutes in your capability to lead by watching this clip on YouTube – brilliantly illustrated too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
Live
There was a moment at La Source when I was noodling along the man made reef and a shoal of yellow-tailed fish changed the direction and swam with me.
At that moment we were as one.
Love
It was Father’s day when we were away.
The most magical message was an ode from my 8 year old granddaughter.
Perfect.
Learn
As a student of teams, I was fascinated by the England Team and their “performance”.
Tom Quayle from Chemistry sent me this insight from Dave Brailsford, one of the architects of GB Cycling that has achieved consistent success for a long period now.
The 5 minute clip is worth a watch.
My favourite line is “You can’t beat a brilliant team”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8774308.stm
Luck
Worry tends to disrupt your ability to see chances that are in front of you.
Even more reason to relax more.
Recommendations
On a long trip, there’s usually one decent film at least. That’s when I saw Invictus.
It is so worth a watch.
La Source is my favourite destination for a break. We have been there 7 times we think.
It has everything I want in a resort.
Reflections No.115 June 2010 Bringing Vision to life
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I have written a bit about the distinction between goals and vision.
Goals usually contain numbers, which do not tend to create feelings in me.
Try this – 68.
What about 146?
No, me neither.
Vision describes how things could be better around here.
Well done, that makes an image in the minds of the audience.
Which creates a feeling.
When you realise what feeling your vision creates, you can ask what you can do tomorrow to create that same feeling.
Then you’re bringing your vision to life tomorrow.
Learn
Peter Knight contributes this passage.
I’ve heard that a meeting of the General Synod has been held as a consequence of a new trend in wedding ceremonies which they find most disturbing. Apparently self-ordained ministers are conducting proceedings which cause the congregation to laugh out loud, frequently and more to be moved by modern day stories and anecdotes that are relevant to 21st century life.
Understandably the General Synod is most concerned that this does not catch on and will be issuing a statement that anyone getting married in this way can expect consequences including for Church of England and Catholics an even hotter hell, a reduction in the number of saved souls (for Jehovah’s witnesses) from 144,000 to 99,000 and for Muslim martyrs getting married just 27 virgins will await them rather than the current 72.
Having just last weekend reached the milestone (or is that millstone?) 22 year anniversary (the spelling is remarkably similar to adversary don’t you think) I’m considering converting and claiming my share of virgins whilst there are still some available.
Live
It’s OK to be different.
Just so you know.
Love
Keep clarifying expectations in all your key relationships and they will become stronger.
Luck
I fancied that Wikipedia would know.
“Luck is fortune caused by accident or chance…”
No it isn’t.
Recommendations
Ted Vandernoot has finally completed his work on the I Ching. http://www.cognitrix.com/pages/english-books.htm will find it.
“The Five dysfunctions of a team” is by Patrick Lencioni.
“A New Earth” is by Eckhart Tolle.
I am leading an Enjoy Making an Impact master class on July 26/27 in Reading. 6 places left as I write. Send me an e mail if you would like a place.
My first audio books are now on Audible http://tinyurl.com/okabp9 First three volumes on Enjoy Making an Impact, including the recent publication of phobia cure for speaking in public.
Copies of Coaching for Results, the book written in 1990 are back on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/3x4esbs
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Reflections No.117 August 10 – Knowing what to count
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Ben Hewitt showed me how to count what counts.
I had been only counting the score of how much my coaching team were billing.
That did not fully feed me – my intent is To Transform.
So Ben encouraged me to begin to also count the transformations that my work is making.
Already I feel more nourished by my achievement.
Learn
So I learn that I am nourished by an earn, a learn or a transformation.
My learn this month is from a link that Chris Howe sent me of a TED lecture given by Sir Ken Robinson where he shares his beliefs on our education system and how it is damaging our children’s creativity. This is just under 20 minutes long and very enjoyable. http://tinyurl.com/mluw5k
Live
This is lifted from the last link
Happiness can be defined as the ration of wanting what you have to having what you want.
Love
I am grateful to Dawn Scott for sharing her story.
“As it is my birthday today I thought I would share this with you. It has only taken me 48 years to realise that the more you love people openly and explicitly, the more you are loved in return and this just makes that lovely feeling grow even stronger. So with that in mind I brought into work some birthday goodies for the people I am working with at present and in return for a goodie I asked each of them to write down one thing that they love about their life right now. I left the stuff in the kitchen with the page to write on. The response has been fab – people have taken time to really think about something good for once (instead of all the worry stuff they carry around) and it has caused quite a stir. I am enjoying the reaction each time someone new goes into the kitchen and so far this is a selection of what people have shared:
Getting “Huggles” from my children
Happy bees; cheerful chickens
Walking in a thunder storm; rain in my wellies Starting my morning with a nuzzle from someone who gives me unconditional love Getting a “buzz” in the morning from my friends My boy’s smile when I get home The joy of my grandchildren Family first last and always”
Luck
I recently appointed another group of Discordian Saints.
I expect them to go and produce miracles
Recommendations
Toy Story 3 needs watching. Beautifully crafted story telling. The Karate Kid is worth watching for Jackie Chan.
And - I recommend that you come on the final Enjoy Making an Impact master class this year 18- 19 October in Reading – four places left of a total class of 8 as I write. This is the last class at £995 plus vat – increase to £1195 next year.
Ping a note to valpercival@btconnect.com for an enrolment form
Reflections No.114 May 2010 Create Feelings
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I declare that target setting seems to me to be an ineffective practice now.
Goals seem to be built around numbers. Numbers do not create feelings in your people.
Try these – 67, 295, 1012.
Get a feeling as a result?
Didn’t think so.
A vision is a description of how things might be better.
“We have become a group that people want to come and join.”
“We now only produce work that makes us proud.”
That sort of thing has the potential to create energy – feeling – in the people. Next month I shall explain how you can bring your vision to life today.
Learn
Readers of Reflections passim will remember the early editions when I emphasised the importance of the State of the learner. Relaxed and Alert works for fast learning.
One thing I have recently discovered in meetings, training and coaching is that once the client has told me what they specifically want to cover in the session, their state changes into more relaxed and alert, because they have told me what is in this session for them.
I hope that repeating myself every 9 years or so doesn’t grate on my reader.
Live
“I am neither beneath nor above no-one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinions of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.” –Deepak Chopra
Love
Focus on one important relationship. Write a list of 5 things for which you are grateful in that relationship, once a week. Watch it grow stronger.
Luck
Lovely story that reached me this morning. A man in the USA who had previously had little success with ladies won $180m , and two days later found the love of his life.
Amazing!
Recommendations
“Conversations with Richard Bandler” by Owen Fitzpatrick changed me as I read it.
“The Millennium Trilogy” by Stieg Larsson is a super piece of fiction. And obviously written as a whole work. All the ends tie up to the beginning. Unlike the nonsense that Lost is pulling in the final series to attempt sense – don’t bother, it wasn’t built that way.
I am leading an Enjoy Making an Impact master class on July 26/27 in Reading. 6 places left as I write. Send me an e mail if you woudl liek a place.
Diversions
How not to use PowerPoint by Don McMillan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Y3P41hr-Q
My first audio books are now on Audible http://tinyurl.com/okabp9 First three volumes on Enjoy Making an Impact, including the recent publication of phobia cure for speaking in public.
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Reflections No.113 – April 2010
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If you have been following Reflections from the beginning, you will remember me carping on about organisations benefitting from hierarchies of values from the times of the train crashes, when the train companies began to put profit before safety.
Well, now Toyota is feeling the effects of confusing their value hierarchy. “Traditionally” their values stacked up as safety, quality and then volume. Consider the harm to their brand by forgetting to keep the main thing the main thing.
Not cheap.
Live
I was four again in March. I am very grateful for my second life and happy to be able to sing the song of life for one more day.
Love
My daughter and son-in-law ran the Reading half marathon along with thousands of others.
Their magnificent daughters [and their Nan] stayed up making the best banner on the whole course – that’s relationship!
Luck
I am beginning to notice that confidence seems to connect with good luck.
Learn
I accidentally caught Desmond Tutu on telly talking about Ubuntu, an African philosophy that defines a person by their relationships. “I am because we are” and remembered that I had heard that when we were learning to teach Covey years ago.
I realise further that the posse I belong to inside Shirlaws has grown because of our conscious practice of Ubuntu – we just didn’t have that as its name.
Funny that.
Recommendations
I have just enjoyed “Inside Steve’s Brain” about Mr. Jobs approach to business.
Anne Jirsch and I have built a new class called Future Vision, based on Anne’s work in future life progression as applied to business. We plan a low cost pilot for early explorers on 7-8 July in Maidenhead. E mail me if you would like to know more.
Would you like an Enjoy Making an Impact open course in the summer? Let me know.
My first audio books are now on Audible http://tinyurl.com/okabp9
First three volumes on Enjoy Making an Impact, including the recent publication of phobia cure for speaking in public.
Diversion
Two for you this month – first one earth shattering http://ofmo.org.uk/
And second inspiring www.myspace.com/thehalfsistersuk
For some joyful performances
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Reflections No.112 March 2010 – Value
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We treated ourselves to a new coffee system at home for Christmas.
We chose the Nespresso one.
Here is a terrific example of repositioning your business in a downturn by repackaging your product and leveraging your intellectual property.
Nestle know lots about coffee. The new system has lovely brochures which make the user more of an expert about coffee.
After all, we have had to learn a new language just to order a coffee in the HIgh Street.
The system uses small pods of coffee that transform into delicious drinks that are much tastier than
the stuff in the chains, at a fraction of the price.
Nestle have me now as a repeat client getting supplies on line and writing recommendations like this.
What can you repackage in your product?
Live
Steve Head make a big contribution to my NLP weekend class in January.
He helped his son make a distinction – Son, If I said I worry about you, is that different to saying I care about you?
Care feels more comforting.
Then what about telling me – Daddy, I care about my school test. That might feel better than telling me you worry about it.
Thanks, Steve
Love
Andrew Lightheart coaches me from Singapore.
If you can’t forgive someone, the chances are that you aren’t forgiving yourself for doing the same class of behaviour .
Thank you.Luck
It’s not that others are writing my Reflections this month, but big ups to Pat Spink for pointing out that things manifest more often when your Attention and your Intention are aligned and active at the same time.
Thank you
Learn
My other star contributor this month, Laura Spicer, treated me to a rapid learning by adding laughter to her work.
When that happens, change accelerates.
She’s going to teach how she does this at two workshops in April - 11th and 25th.
For £85 - I don’t know how she does it and I’m already on the 25th. It’s called Light Up and Laugh and combines NLP with the stuff that makes people smile. It will be around Richmond I suspect. Connect at laura.spicer@googlemail.com Keep up with my blog at www.leadingworks.com/news
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Leading means going first.
One of the clues to leading is predicting the future and then showing your followers where to go to get there.
One of the best things I have learned from Darren Shirlaw is how to know what the economy is going to do next.
The answer is to watch the movement of the financial markets – the FTSE index is the indicator I’m keeping an eye on.
The reason is that the economy mirrors the movement in the market, but about 6-9 months later.
And it works.
So what we can expect is that the economy will gain in confidence until the middle of 2010 and then stabilise and plateau for a period.
Look for yourself.
You’ll make better decisions.
Live
If you find that you’re having difficulty forgiving the people in your life who you perceive have sinned against you, it’s probably because you’re struggling to forgive yourself for some behaviour.
Love
Relationships get stronger when one is pulled towards the other. Pushing doen’t work nearly as well.
Luck
Allow me to remind you that my current belief is that you attract more of what you express gratitude for – that already exists in your life.
Learn
Ed’s second law of presenting – the more senior the person, the less well prepared they are. [in most organisations]. The first law incidentally is that your power increases in line with how much you are willing to be yourself.
Recommendations
Go and watch Avatar, but make sure it’s the 3D version.
“Nervous to Confident”, My NLP experience weekend has two places for 23/24 January in Reading only £225 plus vat. valpercival@btconnect.com for your enrolment form.
Reflections No.109 December 2009 – change the play
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Keeping your eye on the long haul – your intent for the business other than making money -can be difficult, especially in a long downturn.
It’s useful to put a focus for the stage your organisation is at.
At Shirlaws, we recommend three focal points at any one time.
For one client recently, they have chosen to focus on building intellectual property assets, building a world class group and improving margin.
That will provide an anchor for the leadership throughout 2010.
Live
Are you doing what you are doing just to gain the approval of the other person?
How would life open up if you become able to truly ask for what you wanted?
I suspect your relationships would become even more intimate and productive.
Love
When you find yourself playing “I’m going to make the other person wrong”, stop.
Apologise.
Playing that just doesn’t work.
You’re better than that.
Luck
I am fascinated by divination – looking into the future.
As a gift to yourself, resolve to learn one method next year.
Tarot or the I ching is a good start.
Learn to look at destiny.
Learn
From the video clip recommended below, I learned this about apologising.
1. Apologise
2. Say “It was my fault”
3. Then “What do I need to do to make things right?”
Recommendations
Reading “Ferney” by James Long and loving it. and almost through “Life On The Other Side” by Sylvia Browne. Very interesting.
First three volumes on Enjoy Making an Impact, including the recent publication of phobia cure for speaking in public.If you have an iTunes account, go on and write a review of one or more of the titles.
You won’t need to pay for a copy, especially if you have done the work with me.
E mail me when you’ve done it- tell me the name you used – and I’ll send you a copy of a new title as a thank you gift
Enjoy Making an Impact – next two-day master class is planned for February 2/3 2010 Two places available
NLP weekend – “Nervous to Confident” planned for January 23/24 2010 three places available.
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Diversion
Peter Foggin sent me this video clip – this is not a light hearted diversion. I promise it worth a few minutes of your life. http://tinyurl.com/ygu3txj
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Reflections No.108 November 2009 – bliss
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I suspect that when you choose to be the visionary , here is what happens.
You go into the future and pay careful attention to what is not there.
Then come back and explain to your followers exactly what must be built today.
Live
In a world which has culture defined and fuelled by reality telly, performance matters more.
My current belief is that Talent x Confidence = Performance.
Confidence is the bridge.
Without it, the pinnacle of performance is starring in your own house.
Something must be done about it.
Love
The supreme happiness in life is knowing that we are loved – Victor Hugo.
I have never felt more loved than now – Ed Percival
Luck
Preparation in depth makes each performance more effective.
Commitment to the outcome will encourage you to go for width as well as depth in your skills.
Then you are less reliant on outside factors.
Learn
Our new ballroom and latin teacher stretches us in every lesson with new learning.
He begins the next session by going over what he taught us last time.
That embeds the learning and makes his students that much more confident.
Recommendations
Borrow someone else’s children if you have to, but do what you must to see “Up” the latest Pixar production.
Great story that works on many levels.
First three volumes on Enjoy Making an Impact, including the recent publication of phobia cure for speaking in public. If you have an iTunes account, go on and write a review of one or more of the titles.
You won’t need to pay for a copy, especially if you have done the work with me.
E mail me when you’ve done it- tell me the name you used – and I’ll send you a copy of a new title as a thank you gift
Enjoy Making an Impact – next two-day master class is planned for February 2/3 2010
Make a Leadership Impact – next three month programme begins January 2010
NLP weekend – “Nervous to Confident” planned for January 23/24 2010.
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Lead
I currently believe that one of the reasons that organisations are not meeting their sales aspirations is that some of the sales folk do not understand how much value your work brings to your clients.
That is often simply because they have not seen the effects from the client’s perspective.
Have them ask what value your product/service brings to them and stand back in amazement.
Live
A little over halfway through Alberto Villoldo’s new book Illumination.
There’s a lovely map of the 7 phases of life and the initiations that we need to pass through to enter each phase.
I’m just not sure I am emotionally ready to be initiated into sagehood though.
Love
Simon asked me to help him with a class and I needed to take a fresh look at Bro. Covey’s work on building trust.
I saw something new.
Taking care of the little things always seems to lead to trust growing.
If I had missed that, you might have missed it too.
Just a little thing.
Luck
I hold the belief for the moment that luck improves when you lose your attachment to the outcome.
Learn
When you experience something as wonderful, here’s what to do -
Take the whole thing apart and look at the elements.
It’s putting those elements together in that way and in that order that creates wonderful.
Recommendations
If you’re one of the few who have not discovered the visceral writing of Stieg larsson, I heartily recommend his work. Not for the faint- hearted though
My first audio books are now on Audible http://tinyurl.com/yz2wo97
First three volumes on Enjoy Making an Impact, including the recent publication of phobia cure for speaking in public.
Diversion
I adore Modern Family – funniest thing on the telly.
Reflections No.110 January 2010 – Sources
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