Dear Reader,
In my line of work, I have been blessed to meet so many interesting people who want to do their part by adding value to the world through their work and their specific niche. Fabulous people who have an Entrepreneurial Spirit and desire to share pressing knowledge with the world, yet they feel blocked by some force that is misunderstood, which results in a state of resentment. These folks I am speaking of are men and women, various races, and all ages. These folks have varying levels of education and are skilled in an assortment of work disciplines. What I am describing is a very common human condition, in which this challenge bypasses no one, in the perseverance to incarnate one’s vision successfully.
Because of these blocks, many people end up in careers that provide a paycheck as the main fulfillment, yet the spirit inside of the person is left suppressed. This suppressed state creates boredom, frustration, stress, victimization, shame, doubt and insecurity, in which generates complacency; in turn grows the blockage inside, activating a wall of fear-based resistance. This very resistance blocks the person’s ability to receive thriving results out of life.
If something inside of you is nudging to stop holding yourself back and come alive to participate in work that is aligned with your Entrepreneurial Spirit, apply the tips precisely that I am about to provide for you. Work is meant to be fun, meaningful, and prosperous. It is also meant to connect you with a population who is searching to use your product or service to solve something pressing that is causing their world difficulty.
Remember, you are the masterpiece of your own life and know from this moment forward success is sum of small efforts practiced daily. You have all the equipment you need to succeed. I encourage you to dare something worthy with your skills and talents. By holding back you are playing small and holding back solutions to benefit the world. Yes I realize the programming that most of us acquired instills beliefs to hold ourselves back from the worthiness of our birthright. It is not your fault, because you didn’t know any better. Now you know, you are responsible for what you believe.
Beliefs are determinates of what you experience in your world. It is that simple. If you hold a belief, for example, that you can’t have a positive cash flow and be successful at something you have passion for. In this simple example, you would never allow yourself to make money at something you are passionate about. You would take on mediocre work. You would have created unworthiness, doubt, obstacles, stress, limitation and blockages about your passion. And you probably would complain about the job you have. You would participate in work that you have no love for.
Now that you know, you have the option to do something better with the use your time, energy, skills and talents. You deserve to be happy and have prosperity. And you deserve to unblock yourself to have a thriving life.
Tip number one:
1.Stop searching for what the world needs, discover what helps you become alive and go do that. Capture for yourself the emotional state that you want to feel when you have a positive cash flow from the work that comes from your Entrepreneurial Spirit. Your emotional state is the fuel to reach the outcome you desire. For example, if you want to feel happy, confident, courageous and motivated. Be clear about how all those emotions feel. Allow yourself to feel success.
Tip number two:
2.Clean up anything in your life you resent or have a negative attitude toward. Negativity, anger, fear, worry, victimization, shame and apathy are examples of resentment. Forgive yourself, your decisions and anyone involved. What is done is done. If have clients that frustrate you, clean up the frustration. You may need to have a conversation with your client or you may need to break off the relationship. Either way, take healthy active steps that clear away any negativity. If you have job duties that frustrate you such as paperwork for example. Practice loving the activity or love the activity by outsourcing if you can. Removing negativity from your life loosens the blocks and releases the blocks grip on you.
Tip number three:
3.Pay attention to understand what you are challenged by. These challenges are blessings in disguise. These challenges are road maps to what your Entrepreneurial Spirit is here to provide a solution for. Learn to transform the problems you are experiencing into solutions. My entire business concept was conceived out of my frustration with bureaucratic cultures that maintain complacent practices and lack the sense of urgency to evolve; and as a result have forgotten their greatest asset is their people.
I can empathize with all you that feel stuck, or feel unworthy or have fear or have no idea of how to put your ideas together. It takes BIG BOLD COURAGE to get out of your own way and to be unaffected by the good opinions of others. Yes, the risk is yours and so is the GLORY!!
Remember every creation in our world is the human imagination pushed out. You can achieve anything you put your mind to. There is something that you know that you don’t know, and you may not know how to begin. Yet, believe me, you do know. Face your fear, practice the tips to unblock your ability to receive flow, surrender to Entrepreneurial Spirit that so desperately wants to come alive and then you are ready to begin to thrive.
Genuinely,
Christine
Creating BIG Impact in the Mind, Mood and Behavior in your Business
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Why Pay Attention to the Cost of Fear in your Organization?
Ladies and Gentlemen
It is a non-debatable fact that Fear is interrupting and costing American organizations and individuals billions of dollars in wellness and production loss. These Fear based responses have resulted in safety accidents, risk-aversion, indecisiveness, a misdirected focus, an attitude of blame, lack of awareness, service, and effectiveness which results in a culture of separation, dissatisfaction, increased stress and a loss in time and money.
When humans are filled with fear and stress, deals tumble, humans fumble and projects crumble. No magic pill or wand exists to fix these human complexities.Human factors such as fear are not solved by quantifying numbers. To unravel fear courageous action must be applied to dive deeper inside the organization past all facades to identify the root cause of the problem. Once identified, an opportunity to direct change can take place.
The main key to significant change is to learn to let go of fear. We are meant to thrive instead of only survive. We cannot return back to start a new beginning, yet we can start today and create a new ending. In doing so, organizations improve their profitability, effectiveness, efficiencies, safety performance, quality, customer satisfaction, cultural cohesion and wellness.
It takes a daily practice of courage and paying attention to replace unproductive practices with new productive behaviors. The new behavior absolutely needs to be aligned with the organizations identity, values, vision and mission to be beneficial; otherwise new direction will be a constant struggle.
Strategic Organizational Change and Adaptation is an ongoing daily evolution. Yet too often the daily practice is forgotten. Fear, managing stress and optimal human effectiveness in most organizations has been an ongoing challenge for all layers of leadership, management and human resource professionals.
John Kotter, who is an industry expert in leading change, has written many publications on explaining why many change efforts fail. Kotter states the first mistake organizations make is failing to establish a sense of urgency. Most organizations have acted latent with fear and other human factor difficulties and have failed to create a sense of urgency to address the cost of fear. I am inviting you to be different, to be the exception. Fear is a real COST that affects wellness, time, safety, productivity and the bottom-line. It is time to develop genuine courage and the power to STOP FEAR guiding you and the organization. The time is now to Master Fear.
On Tuesday January 19, 2010, you are invited to an online training series titled, “How to Master Fear in Challenging Times”. My approach is unique and is a highly practical perspective on how to strategize past Fear. You will depart the training with easy concepts to apply immediately to your conditions.
Questions: What is social health and advocacy worth? What are you worth? What is your Human Capital Worth?
For product details and value-added benefits: http://cli.gs/JWLX2
Remember your participation counts: http://cli.gs/JWLX2
Thank you.
In Genuineness,
Christine M. West, PhD-C
TheBusinessMD
It is a non-debatable fact that Fear is interrupting and costing American organizations and individuals billions of dollars in wellness and production loss. These Fear based responses have resulted in safety accidents, risk-aversion, indecisiveness, a misdirected focus, an attitude of blame, lack of awareness, service, and effectiveness which results in a culture of separation, dissatisfaction, increased stress and a loss in time and money.
When humans are filled with fear and stress, deals tumble, humans fumble and projects crumble. No magic pill or wand exists to fix these human complexities.Human factors such as fear are not solved by quantifying numbers. To unravel fear courageous action must be applied to dive deeper inside the organization past all facades to identify the root cause of the problem. Once identified, an opportunity to direct change can take place.
The main key to significant change is to learn to let go of fear. We are meant to thrive instead of only survive. We cannot return back to start a new beginning, yet we can start today and create a new ending. In doing so, organizations improve their profitability, effectiveness, efficiencies, safety performance, quality, customer satisfaction, cultural cohesion and wellness.
It takes a daily practice of courage and paying attention to replace unproductive practices with new productive behaviors. The new behavior absolutely needs to be aligned with the organizations identity, values, vision and mission to be beneficial; otherwise new direction will be a constant struggle.
Strategic Organizational Change and Adaptation is an ongoing daily evolution. Yet too often the daily practice is forgotten. Fear, managing stress and optimal human effectiveness in most organizations has been an ongoing challenge for all layers of leadership, management and human resource professionals.
John Kotter, who is an industry expert in leading change, has written many publications on explaining why many change efforts fail. Kotter states the first mistake organizations make is failing to establish a sense of urgency. Most organizations have acted latent with fear and other human factor difficulties and have failed to create a sense of urgency to address the cost of fear. I am inviting you to be different, to be the exception. Fear is a real COST that affects wellness, time, safety, productivity and the bottom-line. It is time to develop genuine courage and the power to STOP FEAR guiding you and the organization. The time is now to Master Fear.
On Tuesday January 19, 2010, you are invited to an online training series titled, “How to Master Fear in Challenging Times”. My approach is unique and is a highly practical perspective on how to strategize past Fear. You will depart the training with easy concepts to apply immediately to your conditions.
Questions: What is social health and advocacy worth? What are you worth? What is your Human Capital Worth?
For product details and value-added benefits: http://cli.gs/JWLX2
Remember your participation counts: http://cli.gs/JWLX2
Thank you.
In Genuineness,
Christine M. West, PhD-C
TheBusinessMD
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Remember to Be Humble (Re-publish)
REMEMBER TO BE HUMBLE
Originally Published in TNNW blog
http://thenationalnetworker.blogspot.com/2009/09/go-west-remember-to-be-humble.html
Friday, September 25, 2009
GO WEST !!! Remember to be Humble
Go West! with Christine M. West, MS, CMHT
One of the most powerful lessons that I have ever learned as a business professional and especially as a speaker for hire is the power behind humbleness. I was reminded of this valuable lesson recently. This invisible power within humbleness was well illustrated recently at a conference that I was an attendee at.
One speaker, who I would rate as stupendous and presented exceptionally well, acted out some key behaviors for all of us to be reminded of. This presenter, who I will name for this article as Credible-Chris, understood the power behind humbleness. Credible-Chris provided value and maintained rapport with his audience because of the following:
1. He demonstrated topic expertise by providing substance, value and practicality.
2. His presentation naturally flowed and 90 minutes flew by fast.
3. He had excellent professional boundaries. When he was outside of his own expertise he identified what expert would be needed.
4. He promoted his services by “walking the talk” instead of behaving arrogantly and telling the audience of his greatness.
5. He involved his audience by engaging in activity that created awareness to identifying the problem to be solved and offering basic solution orientated strategies.
6. He spoke the language of the audience.
7. He gave creditability to ideas in his lecture that stemmed from a different originator.
8. He lived up who he said he was in his bio.
9. He indirectly sold his value proposition by demonstrating it.
10. (By the way his presentation was on Organizational Value, he clearly provided value.)
Another speaker at the conference that stood out for me acted professionally ridiculous. He was an excellent reminder of what NOT to do. I will name him Ridiculous-Ramon. Ridiculous-Ramon, made some very costly mistakes and obviously did NOT remember that GREATNESS comes from a state of being,NOT from a state of telling.
One of the saddest parts for Ridiculous-Ramon was claiming his expertise to be in Psychophysiology of Linguistics. That states he is a communication expert. His bio stated that he worked in the personal growth industry for the past 20 years. These are awesome credentials yet by not truly being able to communicate and engage your audience when you claim you can ------ is Pathetic for any professional.
The story gets worse. The list of mistakes was incredible. The following was my observation:
1. He did not take into account that others in the audience, such as me have an expertise that can validate the credibility of his message.
2. He forgot that I knew him prior to writing a book and I knew him as a salesman, not as a personal growth expert.
3. He lacked professional boundaries, integrity and ethics. He claimed a professional expertise that he did not have. When an audience participant asked who else has done research on what he claims is factual, he said he is the only person on the planet.
(Ridiculous-Ramon did not invent Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Bandler and Grinder did or Neuro-Associative Conditioning Systems this was Anthony Robbins. Ridiculous-Ramon holds a Master of ART in Counseling not a PhD in Linguistics or Psychology or Sociology or even Anthropology) He created an application to teach the layman how to communicate easier and is using concepts from Anthony Robbins. Anthony Robbins work is based off of concepts in NLP, and NLP is based off of concepts of Social Learning Theory and Cognitive Learning Theory which are the work of Albert Bandura who is a Psychologist who expanded other psychological change theories.
Validity and Reliability of your message are very important claims to professionalism and holding credibility.
A concept is far more credible if you can share with you audience the building blocks of your concept as Credible-Chris did so eloquently.
4. He was arrogant and made the presentation a sales pitch of his greatness and all about him.
5. He was scheduled to lecture for 90 minutes and completed his lecture in 30 minutes. He asked the room moderator how much time he had after 30 minutes, then after 45 minutes, and then after 60 minutes…... This was painful to watch. Pacing is part of communication.
6. He had difficulty engaging with his audience, this skill is called rapport and is a major part of communication.
7. He lacked substance and did not tailor his material toward the industry he was speaking with and claimed his material would transform their specific industry culture. He provided no evidence of how or evidence of where he transformed a culture with this method before. He only gave examples on how to apply his concept to increase sales.
He knows a lot about sales because when I met him he was a sales professional five years ago. And by the way this was not a sales conference, it was a safety conference.
8. He put me on the spot by introducing me as a friend instead of as a professional colleague or acquaintance with a certain expertise. He asked me if he always walks his talk. I stated to the audience I need to be ethical and be honest. I said most of the time yet we are all human and are subject to human error. The audience actually for the first time started to laugh. Life did exist in this audience. Ridiculous-Ramon then grew defensive and illustrated that defense with his audience.
9. After the audience exited the room, Ridiculous-Ramon said to me “that was a tough audience, I could not get them engaged.” I replied “I noticed and least you did too something for you to think about” and I exited.
In conclusion, both speakers I learned something from. When I think about Credible-Chris he is an expert I would like to develop a professional relationship with. When I think of Ridiculous-Ramon, I smile, giggle out loud for a moment and Remember to Be Humble.
Genuinely,
Christine
Author: Christine M. West, TheBusinessMD, 2240 E. Tudor Rd. #976, Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99507. Phone 1-907-223-8403. Email: info@thebusinessmd.net, http://www.businessmd.net/ http://thebusinessmd.blogspot.com/ Christine West is an industrial organizational psychology practitioner and is in private practice as TheBusinessMD which helps organizations and individuals overcome fear and explore the power of change. Ms. West is also a Featured Columnist for the National Networker http://www.thenationalnetworker.com/
For more information, please visit Christine's TNNW Bio.
Published by THE NATIONAL NETWORKER Newsletter. All rights reserved. Subscribe Free
Posted by TheBusinessMD at 11:31 PM
Labels: Christine West, go west, speaker, the national networker, TNNW
5 comments:
Margo said...
Christine, good article written from the heart!
One of the books on my reading list is Facing the Dragon by Robert L Moore that deals explicity with this very subject. A very worthwile read for anyone wondering why they are in the nonprofit business, or personal development business. Maybe you have seen it already. I came across this after ministerial school and was at a point in my ministry where I was wondering what I was doing there. The book forced me to look at which ego-needs were running the show as opposed to really serving humanity. Ethically, I had to change or get out....I'm still here.:)
Margo Ruark in Chicagoland
10/20/2009 08:10:00 PM
Sileah said...
Hi Christine, I have to say the same that was a good article. I am currently a student at Kaplan University and my future plan is to be a Psychologist. One day I hope to be able to give a speach like chris you made him sound like the humble person I am working on becoming. I believe that without humbleness you become self servant.
10/22/2009 10:37:00 PM
Bilal J said...
I am bit confused. It seems that the first speaker did the same as the 2nd yet you had a positive bias towards the first speaker?
Yet the first speaker did brief in regards to his bio but you never went into it like you did with the 2nd one. I am just trying to understand what were the specific differences so that I can learn to be more like #1 and #2.
Like others who are reading this article.
10/23/2009 03:38:00 PM
caroline said...
This would be an encredible world if everyone would live with a little humility. I am a firm believer in humility practice.
Conscious humility brings you to a better place and puts life into perspective. Getting caught up in believing you are the end-all be-all leads to justifying any means to the end you desire.
Operating from a place of humility keeps you grounded, which allows you to focus on the true values (ethics being one of those).
When you feel yourself getting a little "too big for your britches" try a little humility practice or just practice it on a regular basis.
Watch the world become a better place.
10/24/2009 12:30:00 AM
Bill Brent said...
This is a wonderful and useful article. One can apply the same principles to writing a how to book, for example.
10/25/2009 12:13:00 AM
Originally Published in TNNW blog
http://thenationalnetworker.blogspot.com/2009/09/go-west-remember-to-be-humble.html
Friday, September 25, 2009
GO WEST !!! Remember to be Humble
Go West! with Christine M. West, MS, CMHT
One of the most powerful lessons that I have ever learned as a business professional and especially as a speaker for hire is the power behind humbleness. I was reminded of this valuable lesson recently. This invisible power within humbleness was well illustrated recently at a conference that I was an attendee at.
One speaker, who I would rate as stupendous and presented exceptionally well, acted out some key behaviors for all of us to be reminded of. This presenter, who I will name for this article as Credible-Chris, understood the power behind humbleness. Credible-Chris provided value and maintained rapport with his audience because of the following:
1. He demonstrated topic expertise by providing substance, value and practicality.
2. His presentation naturally flowed and 90 minutes flew by fast.
3. He had excellent professional boundaries. When he was outside of his own expertise he identified what expert would be needed.
4. He promoted his services by “walking the talk” instead of behaving arrogantly and telling the audience of his greatness.
5. He involved his audience by engaging in activity that created awareness to identifying the problem to be solved and offering basic solution orientated strategies.
6. He spoke the language of the audience.
7. He gave creditability to ideas in his lecture that stemmed from a different originator.
8. He lived up who he said he was in his bio.
9. He indirectly sold his value proposition by demonstrating it.
10. (By the way his presentation was on Organizational Value, he clearly provided value.)
Another speaker at the conference that stood out for me acted professionally ridiculous. He was an excellent reminder of what NOT to do. I will name him Ridiculous-Ramon. Ridiculous-Ramon, made some very costly mistakes and obviously did NOT remember that GREATNESS comes from a state of being,NOT from a state of telling.
One of the saddest parts for Ridiculous-Ramon was claiming his expertise to be in Psychophysiology of Linguistics. That states he is a communication expert. His bio stated that he worked in the personal growth industry for the past 20 years. These are awesome credentials yet by not truly being able to communicate and engage your audience when you claim you can ------ is Pathetic for any professional.
The story gets worse. The list of mistakes was incredible. The following was my observation:
1. He did not take into account that others in the audience, such as me have an expertise that can validate the credibility of his message.
2. He forgot that I knew him prior to writing a book and I knew him as a salesman, not as a personal growth expert.
3. He lacked professional boundaries, integrity and ethics. He claimed a professional expertise that he did not have. When an audience participant asked who else has done research on what he claims is factual, he said he is the only person on the planet.
(Ridiculous-Ramon did not invent Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Bandler and Grinder did or Neuro-Associative Conditioning Systems this was Anthony Robbins. Ridiculous-Ramon holds a Master of ART in Counseling not a PhD in Linguistics or Psychology or Sociology or even Anthropology) He created an application to teach the layman how to communicate easier and is using concepts from Anthony Robbins. Anthony Robbins work is based off of concepts in NLP, and NLP is based off of concepts of Social Learning Theory and Cognitive Learning Theory which are the work of Albert Bandura who is a Psychologist who expanded other psychological change theories.
Validity and Reliability of your message are very important claims to professionalism and holding credibility.
A concept is far more credible if you can share with you audience the building blocks of your concept as Credible-Chris did so eloquently.
4. He was arrogant and made the presentation a sales pitch of his greatness and all about him.
5. He was scheduled to lecture for 90 minutes and completed his lecture in 30 minutes. He asked the room moderator how much time he had after 30 minutes, then after 45 minutes, and then after 60 minutes…... This was painful to watch. Pacing is part of communication.
6. He had difficulty engaging with his audience, this skill is called rapport and is a major part of communication.
7. He lacked substance and did not tailor his material toward the industry he was speaking with and claimed his material would transform their specific industry culture. He provided no evidence of how or evidence of where he transformed a culture with this method before. He only gave examples on how to apply his concept to increase sales.
He knows a lot about sales because when I met him he was a sales professional five years ago. And by the way this was not a sales conference, it was a safety conference.
8. He put me on the spot by introducing me as a friend instead of as a professional colleague or acquaintance with a certain expertise. He asked me if he always walks his talk. I stated to the audience I need to be ethical and be honest. I said most of the time yet we are all human and are subject to human error. The audience actually for the first time started to laugh. Life did exist in this audience. Ridiculous-Ramon then grew defensive and illustrated that defense with his audience.
9. After the audience exited the room, Ridiculous-Ramon said to me “that was a tough audience, I could not get them engaged.” I replied “I noticed and least you did too something for you to think about” and I exited.
In conclusion, both speakers I learned something from. When I think about Credible-Chris he is an expert I would like to develop a professional relationship with. When I think of Ridiculous-Ramon, I smile, giggle out loud for a moment and Remember to Be Humble.
Genuinely,
Christine
Author: Christine M. West, TheBusinessMD, 2240 E. Tudor Rd. #976, Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99507. Phone 1-907-223-8403. Email: info@thebusinessmd.net, http://www.businessmd.net/ http://thebusinessmd.blogspot.com/ Christine West is an industrial organizational psychology practitioner and is in private practice as TheBusinessMD which helps organizations and individuals overcome fear and explore the power of change. Ms. West is also a Featured Columnist for the National Networker http://www.thenationalnetworker.com/
For more information, please visit Christine's TNNW Bio.
Published by THE NATIONAL NETWORKER Newsletter. All rights reserved. Subscribe Free
Posted by TheBusinessMD at 11:31 PM
Labels: Christine West, go west, speaker, the national networker, TNNW
5 comments:
Margo said...
Christine, good article written from the heart!
One of the books on my reading list is Facing the Dragon by Robert L Moore that deals explicity with this very subject. A very worthwile read for anyone wondering why they are in the nonprofit business, or personal development business. Maybe you have seen it already. I came across this after ministerial school and was at a point in my ministry where I was wondering what I was doing there. The book forced me to look at which ego-needs were running the show as opposed to really serving humanity. Ethically, I had to change or get out....I'm still here.:)
Margo Ruark in Chicagoland
10/20/2009 08:10:00 PM
Sileah said...
Hi Christine, I have to say the same that was a good article. I am currently a student at Kaplan University and my future plan is to be a Psychologist. One day I hope to be able to give a speach like chris you made him sound like the humble person I am working on becoming. I believe that without humbleness you become self servant.
10/22/2009 10:37:00 PM
Bilal J said...
I am bit confused. It seems that the first speaker did the same as the 2nd yet you had a positive bias towards the first speaker?
Yet the first speaker did brief in regards to his bio but you never went into it like you did with the 2nd one. I am just trying to understand what were the specific differences so that I can learn to be more like #1 and #2.
Like others who are reading this article.
10/23/2009 03:38:00 PM
caroline said...
This would be an encredible world if everyone would live with a little humility. I am a firm believer in humility practice.
Conscious humility brings you to a better place and puts life into perspective. Getting caught up in believing you are the end-all be-all leads to justifying any means to the end you desire.
Operating from a place of humility keeps you grounded, which allows you to focus on the true values (ethics being one of those).
When you feel yourself getting a little "too big for your britches" try a little humility practice or just practice it on a regular basis.
Watch the world become a better place.
10/24/2009 12:30:00 AM
Bill Brent said...
This is a wonderful and useful article. One can apply the same principles to writing a how to book, for example.
10/25/2009 12:13:00 AM
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