Taking notes with love
I recently attended a multi-day workshop with Suzanne Evans and Larry Winget. I was there to work on my public speaking abilities but came away with a few nuggets that had me scribbling notes like crazy. I’d like to summarize a few for you today.
1. Inspiration is worthless. Motivation is an action that causes transformation. Never inspire – always motivate.
I had always wanted to inspire people to live their greatness, but it’s so very true that I can come away from a talk inspired and all lit up with warm fuzzy feelings and it doesn’t change my life one bit. If I come away motivated to take an action (do something, change something, have some conversation) then I get traction in my life.
2. The fastest way to not get anything is to set the bar too low.
This one killed me. So often in my hippy-dippy childhood, with my flower child parents, I had no expectations placed on me. It’s pretty easy to float along when there are no goals to achieve. “Did you do your best? If you did, then I’m happy” was what I heard from my father every report card. Whether I did nor did not really didn’t matter, because I had no incentive to try anything more that what was simply working. As an adult, I had to LEARN how to get results for myself and more importantly how to create goals and achieve them in order to have a life that meant anything. It means I have to have high expectations of others in order for them to achieve their most outrageous goals.
3. It’s not your job to get people to say yes – it’s to get someone to make a decision.
This nugget moved the conversation away from “sales” into the world of “service.” I realize that not everyone is going to like me, or the work I do, but my job is to get people to make a decision one way or the other and take action as a result. Moving people forward is the only goal – to be of service in their journey.
So, where are you letting other people slide, or get off easy? Where do you fail yourself?
Email me and let me know where you can set the bar higher – and along the way change someone’s life.