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If you want to succeed at the highest levels of almost any organization or career, you must employ leverage.  Understanding how leverage works within a team is the ultimate knowledge.  Building that team is critical to creating an atmosphere of winning.  While some sports are one-on-one, most involve a team.  You must employ the greatest skills of motivating others to their highest potential if you want to succeed as a team.  Michael Jordan, largely considered the greatest basketball player of our age, could not have succeeded without players and supporting staff around him that let him shine without requiring him to shoulder the entire load.  He played for the Chicago Bulls.  And, while the Bulls made the playoffs a few times with him carrying the entire load, they could not get past the “teams” that were in their way until they acquired the correct supporting staff.  When they did, they ran off 3 NBA Championships in a row.

The mental note to make here is that “Team work wins over Individuality every time.”

With that in mind, lets take a quick look at the parts of team work and how they fit into the puzzle.  This will be a quick overview with an in-depth look at each in their own section.

Team Goals is the starting point for any true team work to begin.  You must have a solid game plan that all team members can refer back to so that there is little if any ambiguity as to how they fit into the puzzle as well as how the team will accomplish the ultimate goals.

An underlying and often overlooked part of this is a common value-set.  The team needs to agree on the values that they will operate under.

The most obvious part of team-work is cooperation.  Cooperation is mandatory to achieve the highest levels of team work.

UK Cheerleading Celebrates Unprecedented 17th National Championship

One player/team member cannot be on a different page as the rest of the team or the synchronization of the team loses its effectiveness.  The University of Kentucky Cheerleading team is consistently in the top 5 of the National Championships and has won multiple times.  If one of the cheerleaders is off, the whole team gets downgraded seriously.  Therefore, in this type of team, you truly are only as strong as your weakest link.

The USAF Thunderbirds are the epitome of trust.  If one of those team members loses focus during their flying exercises, someone loses a life.  Trust is not given in most cases, it is earned.  That is a little of a paradox for most teams as a new member needs to have the trust to accomplish what he or she needs to, but the teams still needs to operate.  This forces any good team to be together for some amount of time.  You can connect without establishing trust initially.

Finishing the job is one of the most important part of the team.  Completion is a skill that is learned one-on-one and transferred to a team. So, completion is a big part of building team work.

The quality of players you bring to the table also makes a huge difference in whether you win or lose in the situation.

One of the frustrating parts of some teams is wrong job assignments.  You must assign the right people to the right job.  You don’t send the introvert to the social mixer or the point guard to do all the rebounding.  Although they may accomplish some of the task a mis-assigned team member will not flourish in the wrong setting.
Lack of leadership is a huge issue with progressing as a team.  There needs to be vision and direction to accomplish all the things that we want to as a team.  The right leadership provides that as part of the process.

Another critical issue with team work is a lack of followers.  If everyone is trying to lead, you will be going in all directions instead of one direction.

Motivating the team properly is always a key component to team work.  Every team and individual on the team will take different motivation.  The leader who can figure out that motivation will master the end result.

And finally you must operate the team with integrity.  You may change paths or goals or any other thing, but you MUST operate with integrity or the team will lose conidence and flounder.

As we operate our teams, we must maintain these key elements to ensure that the team stays together and plays together well.  If you are a current team member, take these elements back to your team to help them succeed.

As always, your comments and thoughts are desired here.

Rob Wheeler

Never give up on your dreams

Tennyson captured this in a unique way.  In his quote below he realized that persistence is the key.

“No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson

One of my friends, Mike Ray is going through withdrawal.  He is on a project he is calling reclaiming my name on google.  This project is a project that each of us should endeavor to do.  Securing your name on google is very important.

He is working with Dave Sherwin to ensure that he gets the most out of each activity associated with reclaiming his name.

I invite you to follow Mike on Facebook and watch as he reclaims his name.

Here is a short video that he and Dave presented last night on a webinar that was very powerful.  It includes 10 simple steps that you can do the push your name to the top of google.

For some “pudding”, google Dave Sherwin.  The results are amazing.

Go forth and reclaim your name. Start today with these simple steps and you too can reclaim your name.

Rob.

Safety Glasses

Some barriers are used for protection.  Safety glasses protect you from flying debris, whatever you are doing.  They help keep a vital organ protected.  They are a barrier.  Removal of this barrier at an improper moment can mean the loss of sight.  Proper vision in your life is just as important.  However, there is a barrier you may want to remove from sight.

Many people write down goals.  However their goals are too general to ever really reach.  Here is an example:

I would like a nice home, in a nice neighborhood with nice friends etc.

These are NOT goals.  They are nice thoughts and dreams.  To properly set goals, you need significant definition.  This is a fundamental barrier to success for some.

Let me give you a visual.  Many people set physical goals.  One of them it to get defined.  Here are two examples of defined:

#1.  This man (Good Definition) has definition….the right definition.

#2.  This man (Bad Definition) has definition….the wrong definition, but definition nevertheless.

Defined Abs (Bad)

Defined Abs (Good)

They both are defined.  They both have six-pack abs.  However, their definition is completely different.  You have to be specific!

Would you like your doctor working on a heart issue with crystal clear x-rays or fuzzy x-rays.  You wouldn’t dream of letting them just wander around your body.

What would you prefer your wedding pictures to be, defined or fuzzy.  It sounds silly to allow these things to happen.  However, we have a tendency to do this with our life and our time.  You shouldn’t allow a lack of definition in any of these areas.  Neither should you allow yourself to wander around life with non-specific goals.

Your detail in your goal set will largely determine if you achieve your dreams.  If they are just general items and not highly specific, you are really NOT interested in achieving them, they are just nice thoughts.

Many people have nice thoughts.  But, they will never achieve anything.  If you want to define your dreams, then they must have intracate details to them.  If you want a nice home, what does that mean to you, exactly?

Does the home have an entryway?  How many square feet?  How many bedrooms?  What is the cost of the home?  Where is the home?  Does the home have granite counters, stone counters or formica?  Does each room have its own bathroom?  How tall are the ceilings?  Is it on the mountain or on the beach?  Doea it have a sprinkler system?  Is it on a golf course?

The point of this is intricate detail breeds thoughts in your mind that will help you accomplish your goals.  That detail causes an effect on the human mind.  It creates a need to achieve them.  It enables the creativity to flow and motivate the mind to create the necessary actions.

Get specific.  Drive your goals home in your mind first and the unique material you were born with will strive to reach those defined objective.

Rob Wheeler

The communication barrier is a subtle deadly barrier that kills deals, relationships and makes religious zealots murders.  Make sure you are careful of your barriers.

One of the best selling books in recent history has been Rick Warren’s “Purpose Driven Life”.  The reason that it is selling so well is that so few have developed a purpose for their life.

They are drifting from event to event with no passion or direction.  It is for this reason that the book was written and why so many have latched on to its precepts.  Rick is a pastor of a large church is southern California.  While there is an underlying spiritual nature to any really purpose driven life, it can be any spiritual focus that brings it forward.

Bringing purpose into your life is an art form and should help you define what you really want.  The starting place for this is to realize the symptoms prior to us moving to the solution.

So, what are the results of a lack of purpose?  They are far reaching and can actually result in the end in physiological manifestations.

First, the Mental Cost of a lack of purpose is confusion and an inability to focus on tasks because they lack the inner meaning that pushes you onward regardless of what barriers you encounter.  The confusion creates a lack of productivity.  The inability to focus creates a frustration that can lead to other symptoms we discuss later in the article.

The Financial Cost of a lack of purpose are bad as well.  If you are just going through the motions, your employer or supervisor will be able to read the signs and realize that you are just collecting a check.  This leads to fewer promotions and less money.  The market can tell when you lack purpose and passion.

The Spiritual Cost can be the most costly.  When you perceive in yourself a lack of purpose or faith in your direction or spiritual focus, this can cause Chaos.  Chaos occurs when you are incongruent with your core value set.  This can lead to apathy and it will ultimately lead to a lack of faith.

The Emotional Cost is the most subtle and can be devastating.  Depression is one of the first signs of this lack of purpose.  It leads to laziness, lack of energy and blaming.  It is the original cause of a lack of personal responsibility.  If you are blaming others for your lot in life instead of taking responsibility, you may be lacking purpose.

The Social Cost to a lack of purpose is also a subtle cost.  If your friends or family begin to withdraw and avoid you, you may be experiencing a lack of purpose.  This leads to isolation and can deepen any depression.

The Physiological Cost is an outward manifestation of the deeper issues that have been affecting you.  Research has shown that when mental or other problems are ongoing and continue to be ignored instead of addressed, those issues can cause a physical manifestation of those psychological issues.

Health can deteriorate as problems continue as a result of these ongoing issues.

The underlying lack of purpose can cause all of these challenges.  It is up to us to make the choices that will enable us to follow a course which we choose and are passionate about.

So, how do we do this?  Here’s one way:

First, answer these questions below and actually write the answers to those questions on a sheet of paper;

If you had $100,000,000 what would you do with your life?  If money were absolutely not issue what tasks would you perform?  Who would you desire to be with?  What industry would you most want to be involved with?
If you knew you would NOT fail, what job or career would you want?
What charities or causes would you support?

Next, ask yourself:
Are these realistic ideas that I can profit from today?
Can I feed my family and meet my needs with this path?
Do I want to do this?
Can I put my full passion behind this endeavor?

What is your purpose?  Why do you exist?  If you can answer this, you can create a life of purpose and true fulfillment whether or not money is the final answer.  Put a purpose in place and watch the results begin to flow in.  Become a doer instead of a watcher in life.

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Rob.

The point is, none of us remember the headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers. They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies.. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten.

1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school. 2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time. 3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile. 4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special!!

The lesson: The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials..the most money…or the most awards. They simply are the ones who care the most.

”Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!’

Do you find yourself agreeing with everything you hear or read or are you the kind that disagrees with everything initially until you’ve had time to think about it.

Each source you listen to has a profound affect on your subconscious mind. It is important to filter

Brain Cut Away

what you let into your head. We are taught from a young age to watch what leaves our mouths and who we hang around, but not the underlying reasons for those good lessons.

Your subconscious mind determines largely what your conscious mind lets in. Therefore, it is extremely important that you fill it with quality material.

Do you ever question your Pastor/Bishop/Spiritual Leader, or do you take what he or she says verbatim? I challenge you to do your own research and think for yourself.

I am not saying that there isn’t great information and wisdom out there. What I am saying is that there is enough BAD information to warrant corroboration and personal research on important items for yourselves.

So, how do you think for yourselves?

#1.  Build a list of your values

#2.  Refine that list

#3.  Don’t let anyone tell you what you should believe, period.

These steps will allow you to begin to think for yourself.  With a media group either focus left or right depending on where you acquire your news, it has never been more important than it is now to define yourself and think for yourself.

We are not little robots destined to repeat whatever is fed to us.  We are individuals.  With over 5,000 persuasive messages bombarding us each, our independence and critical need to think has never been higher.

Break out of the sad model of accepting as truth everything you here.

Rob Wheeler

What if there were a barrier you couldn’t see at all?  Would that barrier scare you?  Watch this short video:

A jet screams through the sound barrier.  How do you even “REALLY” define barriers you cannot see?  How can something you cannot see affect you?

The barriers we deal with on a daily basis can be daunting.  Today we will talk about a barrier that is unseen.  These unseen barriers carry the most sinister consequences if not navigated properly.

Many people only want to succeed in one area of their life.  Others want to succeed in every area of their life.  Still others define success monetarily, while even more define success in the materials (toys) they have gathered.  Many women define success solely in their children and everything surrounding them and their success.  While this is noble, they are not giving themselves credit for the many other things that they do and can do.

How you define success can be as different as the sands of the earth.  How YOU define success makes all the difference in the world.

Do you define success in relationships and religion or do you define success in emotional stability and finances?  You are going to define success according to you.  No one else can do this drill for you.  You must decide what your definition is and how to achieve it.

There are seven key areas to measure success:

Spiritual
Social
Mental
Emotional
Physical
Financial
Material

Jet crashes through the sound barrier

In each area you need to define what you consider “success”.  Once you have defined that you can begin to align yourself with your values and goals so that they meet and makes sense.  As you do this, remember the sound barrier and what you cannot see, CAN affect you in significant ways.

When you talk about spiritual many people believe that it is a religious definition.  While that is true for many, it may not be true for you.

To properly define your success you must first have set your values.  You can use the resource box below to find how to set your values.  Once you have defined your values, now you can work on your personal definition of success.

These are NOT goals.  They are definitions of success.  Goals will be far beyond this category.

Take each of the categories above and write down what you believe is your definition of success is in each category.

Rob Wheeler

The Berlin Wall

During the cold war a reminder of the separation of Germany was the Berlin Wall. This barrier existed during one of the most notorious periods of Chaos in the life of Germany. It was a constant reminder of the unwanted presence of a difference country who invaded the country, lives and culture of an entire people. Talk about a barrier!!!

If my blog allowed sub-titles the sub-title for this one would be: Aligning Your Life by Defining Your Values

In many instances a person will wonder, “Why am I conflicted inside?” I am working on my goals and following my dreams?

We often wonder why such events occur in our lives. For those who have never thought about it, it can present a troubling aura around daily living. This feeling of conflict or dissonance is called “Chaos”.

Chaos stems from our core value set not being clearly defined and our actions being incongruent with our underlying “value set”. That lack of congruency while real, does not manifest itself clearly to us as a result of our value sets not being defined. Moreover, we struggle with it on a daily basis as a result of not even knowing that the problem exists.

Defining values can be more fundamental to our happiness than we ever imagined. It can help us to understand ourselves, our relationships our spirituality and our moral standards. This definition can help alleviate the daily worries and anxiety that we experience.

Many people write down their goals. This is a good thing. However, if your goals conflict with your underlying value set, then you have the same problem all over again. Value sets must be determined PRIOR to goals being set or CHAOS will ensue.

So, how do we define values? I have often wondered how to gather the resources together to aid in this. Well, the internet has obliged. In the resource box below is a link to a page I have set up specifically for helping you define your values. There are three aids that I think will help tremendously; Value Sheet, Personal Affirmation and List of Values. With these three and the explanation below, you should be able to define your core value set and align it to a personal affirmation.

With these tools you can begin to truly align your value sets with your goals and remove the chaos that this misalignment may have caused in your life. WARNING: This drill may produce significantly different results than you were expecting. It did for me.

So, here’s how we do it!

#1.  Take the master list of values and circle every value that you really think aligns to you. Be generous and circle who you really are.
#2.  Go back and place a rectangle around the twenty or less that describe who you most want to be.
#3.  From that twenty, take a highlighter and highlight the 12 that are critical to you.
#4.  Number them from one to twelve.
#5.  Write the top ten on your Value Sheet.

This drill will help you define and decide how you want to live. Not in the specifics, but in the underlying values you want yourself to live by and others to see.

Compare your results to your goals. Do they match? If they do not, this may be why you have experienced that chaos in your life. Not to worry, we can realign them very easily. Goals change with life experience and knowledge. You may have a different set of knowledge now and you can put that knowledge to use using the tools provided here.

Remember, each day you have a chance to start with a blank slate. You can choose to be better, more confident, more aligned and happy or you can choose to remain static.

Rob Wheeler

Iceburg

An iceberg is a devious barrier with the most damaging parts of it underneath the water sometimes impervious to sight.

The Titanic was suppose to be the “unsinkable” ship.  An iceberg took it out easily and many people perished as a result of this unseen or unperceived barrier

There are some barriers in our lives that don’t seem to be that large when we first look at them.  However, when you look underneath the barrier it is larger than you ever imagined.  How you deal with these “unseen” barriers will determine largely how well you succeed in your business and personal life.

Today we will be addressing one of these unseen barriers.  Personal motivation is an unseen barrier.  It is internal, self determined and self handled.

I remember my dad coming into my room and saying, “Time for school!”

It was soooo hard to get up to go to school, and I liked school.  My motivation level for school was just not at a level to ensure consistent participation.  What gets you motivated?  Have you found that special “thing” that motivates you?

Martin Luther King says:

“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live.”

What are you willing to DIE for.

I have heard it said that if your why doesn’t make you cry, its not big enough.

There are many things that motivate us, but they are usually broken into two categories.  Desperation and Inspiration.  People that are motivated by desperation find that their motivation usually is a temporary motivation and will dissipate as soon as the situation that caused the desperation has been resolved or eliminated.  Desperate people react to situations.

Inspiration on the other hand can have a significantly longer time span because it is rooted in the subconscious.  It is built from a deep mission or longing.  It will not dissipate with results.  Rather with results, it will build excitement spurring additional results and desire.  Inspired people are proactive.

It has been said that you can lead a horse to water, but you can NOT make him drink.  While this is fundamentally true, if you feed a horse salt pellets along the way, the horse will drink the water without you having to ask.

There is a measure of of pure determination and disciple in any motivation.  That is why it is important to find that which inspires you.  Motivation starts with self.  However, it should extend to others to ensure that your mission gets traction toward completion.

Matthew McConahey really caught the vision in the film We Are Marshall.

Will you “lay it on the line” today?  Inspiration beats desperation every time.

Here are a few things you can do to help in the motivation process:

• Dream Big – Visualize what your successful day will look like.
• Speak it out loud
• Choose to have the right attitude
• Believe in yourself
• Give yourself the time to succeed
• Remove Negative/Abusive People from your circle of influence.
• Read positive/inspirational materials
• Determine in your mind that you will NEVER give up.
• Break tasks into smaller parts
• Seek inspiration from those who have traveled the same path and are successful
• Build a positive group of Key Resources^TM
• Music is a master motivator.  Use it to your advantage
• Living things motivate.  Keep things that are alive around you.
• Become a life long student of your industry choice
• Reward yourself for reaching a goal

These things will ensure that you keep yourself motivated.  Listen to motivating people and watch motivating material.  Seek your true inspiration to ensure that you have the energy and drive to succeed.

Listen to Gene Hackman:

You don’t need a sports movie to create motivation.  Notice that each coach here is programming the athletes mind in preparation for performing above the normal abilities.  You can program you mind the exact same way.

Choose to be better.

Rob.