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“The Zen-inspired painter seeks the ‘truth’ of a landscape, like that of religion, in sudden enlightenment. This allows no time for careful detailed draftsmanship. After long contemplation, he is expected to be able to seize inner truth in a swordlike stroke of the brush….”
Working as hard as you do it’s easy to become so focused on what you’re doing that you forget why you’re doing it.
Peter Drucker, often considered The Father of Management, formulated many concepts about business that we now take for granted.
In this particular case I’m refering to what he called “the activity trap,” and Drucker proposed “management by objective” as a way to avoid it.
So how do you maintain focus on your objective, the “what” rather than the “how,” and thereby keep innovation alive?
Are you confident that you really do know what needs to be done right now, for your investment of time, effort and money to not become insignificant?
Before jumping into my own day of “hurry hurry, rush rush” I began by taking a bit of time to Think.
That thinking motivated my sharing this post with you.
If this post has caused you to take a pause and Think, my time sharing this with you has been well spent.
Personally, what I’ve come up with about my own business, involving you now reading it 
is this:
“My job is to get both of our “wheels of thought” rolling by asking questions.”
“Your job in our masterminding the sharing of thought is to provide answers.”
For both of us this begins a journey of self-exploration, Peter Drucker would suggest,
“A journey of Self-Exploration with Five Essential Questions:”
1. What is your mission?
2 Who is your customer?
3. What does your customer value?
4. What are your results?
5. What is your plan?
Organized Planning, Step 6, will be the next step detailed in our sharing with you each of the Be All You Can Be 13 steps to Freedom.
Part of today’s research toward its writing had me read the following introduction to Peter Drucker. Who’s influence upon modern day business is now legendary.
It gifted me with some powerful thinking time.
As part of your own innovative thinking today give it a read, and take some notes of what about it inspires you.
I look forward to you sharing your comments to this post.
What are your results, having inspired each other by sharing our thoughts today, and taking these first steps of masterminding together?
Ref. “The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z” http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/11/Drucker.html
A quick “brush stroke” of it’s Z:
“Zen: In 1998, when the writer Harriet Rubin interviewed Drucker at his home for Inc., he showed her this passage from a book on Japanese art: “The Zen-inspired painter seeks the ‘truth’ of a landscape, like that of religion, in sudden enlightenment. This allows no time for careful detailed draftsmanship. After long contemplation, he is expected to be able to seize inner truth in a swordlike stroke of the brush….” Similarly, Drucker achieved enlightenment through quiet observation, waiting patiently until he saw an idea whole, then rendering universal truth in the swift space of a sentence. Thus was the essence of the master.”
Let us know what you think of the full article up at Inc.com
“The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z” http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/11/Drucker.html
Are you wandering in the world, uncertain, lonely and in constant fear?
We all are living lives of Quiet Desperation says Thoreau, where we “Seek But Do Not Find.”
Simply doing busy-ness all week can wear me thin sometimes. So this weekend became a time of reading and thinking, pondering and even a bit of praying for understanding on a deeper level, a level that might restore Peace.
Seeking helped me to find the following excerpts which miraculously restored my Peace, possibly it will assist you to re-member your own.
“A Course in Miracles” is the primary reference for this mindset, though I’d recommend starting with
for a beginning introduction. Most of what I share here can be read in it’s full context in “The Lighthouse,” a newsletter of the Foundation for a Course in Miracles Volume 20 Number 4 December 2009 issue by Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. His masterful insights into A Course in Miracles was the inspiration for sharing this post with you.)
“…everyone who is born to dwell in this ‘dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die’ (has) …chosen to believe the ego’s lies of separation over the Holy Spirits’s truth of Atonement, and (is thereby) still choosing to place faith in a pathological liar (the ego) who can never be trusted.”
A Course in Miracles suggests that our lives are quietly desperate because we shall never find the love and innocence for which we yearn, since we are looking in the wrong place.
An ego’s journey which leads to the hellish existence of sin, betrayal and death. Taking the tiny mad idea of separation seriously – ie. calling it sinful.
What but the defenses of repression and projection can enable us to maintain our existence while still believing in the ego’s unchallenged reality of guilt and punishment?
The decision making mind that chooses guilt is the source of all the problems we experience as bodies. Indeed, concealing our mind’s choice for the ego’s guilt is the purpose of the world.
…it was only our decision to be separate from love that has caused our distress.
The bodily dreamworld of guilt has come to occupy our attention so that the mind’s dreamworld of guilt is obscured, an obscurity that prevents our ever awakening from the dream to the loving innocence we left only in our delusional state of thinking.
And so the mind’s guilt over the nonexistent sin of destroying innocence remains concealed and protected by a world that is ignorant of what is driving its very existence.
As long as you believe that guilt is real. This is the crux of the problem, as well as the solution…the issue is not the guilt itself, nor the world of guilt that arose from it, but only our belief in them. This understanding is imperative if we are to return attention to our minds so that we may hear a different Voice.
A voice that helps us to make the correction from sin to mistake, from guilt to innocence, is the basis of forgiveness, the thrust of A Course in Miracles.
All distress is unforgiveness.
What worldly experience can ever come close to the joyous comfort that Jesus brings us through forgiveness?
It is nothing less than the peace of God that comes when we know not only that we are a mind, but a guiltless mind that is free from the illusions of an insane thought system, and therefore identified with the thought of truth.
All pain is resistance, our fear of the truth of our identity as God’s one Son.
What do you think?
Where are you looking for Truth?
Who is the Guide that you are following?
What do you think is the biggest mistake that leaders make?
Photo of Tim and our son “Neo.”
Sam Deep’s recent blog post enlightened me with his insightful understanding of what I would call true-leadership (highlights and link to read the full article can be found at the bottom of this post).
It opened my eyes to a recent experience I had in the birthing room of a hospital when my wife gave birth to our son “Neo.”
What do you think is the biggest mistake that leaders make?
I look forward to you sharing your personal experience of being a leader and/or follower with your replies and comments.
Here is what I shared in response to Sam’s article:
“Deep and Insightful post Sam thank you.
It may not be a 12th major leadership mistake being similar to “5. Relating to people as objects,” but a distinction I’d like to add in any case.
Making the leadership mistake of…
“Being a Power over others, in place of a power to them”
…Though, I learned profoundly in a hospital birthing room just days ago it’s a mistake that can be made both ways!
As an American now living with my viking-wife on the fjord here in Norway and having just become parents to our son “Neo” provides the setting of my story. At almost 44 years old it certainly is not my first experience with “power over vs. power to” but 5am in a birthing room with my wife and professionals wielding very large needles certainly required me to draw upon all my past experiences with leadership.
Placing the epidural needle into my wife’s spine was not going well as she looked to me at a time when I felt powerless to lead anything but my own hand which must have stroked her head hundreds if not thousands of times by then. She was laying on her side and in ever increasing pain pleading with me to help her understand what the anesthesiologist was doing to her back!
Zero communication from the professionals in the room left me to guessing why the procedure had not been completed yet. After what seemed at least 4 attempts to place the needle into my wife’s spinal fluid failed…my being in the role of being a power to the anesthesiologist flipped when FINALLY she communicated to us that she’d like to “try” the procedure again.
Silly what comes to mind at certain times in our life, all I could think of then was Master Yoda in Star Wars saying to Luke Skywalker “…no try, do or don’t do…”
Applying my vocabulary, understanding and compassion to the situation required that I then and there become the leader of it.
Was I mistaken in my own personal leadership allowing someone to stick large needles into my wife’s back while attempting to lead us as “objects?”
It took me a while to realize it…but ultimately my answer was a resounding “Yes” when I stood up to a professional who had violated our trust.
Is it possible that being a power “over” ourselves is the prerequisite to extending power “to” another?”
What are your thoughts?
I’m looking forward to you sharing your story of leadership experience.
(Sam’s list of the 11 Biggest Mistakes the leaders make is:
- Succumbing to fear.
- Failing to hold people accountable.
- Refusing to learn.
- Not seeing themselves as others do.
- Relating to people as objects.
- Not delegating enough.
- Burying their heads in the sand.
- Valuing “what” over “how.”
- Acting unethically.
- Leading in a spoke network.
- Being a failure-preventer rather than a success-insurer.
I highly recommend reading the full post which can be found at:
http://www.asksamdeep.com/what-is-the-biggest-mistake-that-leaders-make
and the follow up post which can be read at:
http://www.asksamdeep.com/what-are-the-biggest-mistakes-that-leaders-make/ )
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Why have I shared this with you?
It’s because you may also be sick and tired of hearing about…
Mindset, Mindset, Mindset…being so important blah, blah, blah.
But what really is “mindset,” what’s so important about it and how do you make “mindset” an ACTION-able item?
Personally, I’m driven to share this with you that we might both discover how together we can mastermind and implement an ever improving mindset, and inspire as many others as possible to do the same.
Our business purpose at Internet Marketing Success is to
“Awaken and Nurture Business Brilliance.”
Alex Jefferys and now also Rich Schefren have begun a whole new level of awareness, learning and overall “mindset” for us, in all areas of our life…
And we believe our improved mindset will create a whole new mindset for you too!
Key to this has been Rich Schefren’s “Rapid Learning Acceleration Immersion Workshop” – Brand New Rapid Learning Acceleration Tactics For A-Player Entrepreneurs. It’s not even available to the public at the time of this writing.
Update: Just learned of a limited post-event offer CLICK HERE for details (If still available at your time of reading this…If not, no worries because I have arranged with Rich for another way that you can get this information. More details below.)
What I personally have been able to learn about it has been an answer to prayer for me.
It began when I recently moved to Norway from the United States. The short of the long of it is that I have been challenged, even overwhelmed with learning so many new things. In addition, working online full-time has further caused learning curves to be much steeper than I could have ever anticipated.
It’s been one of those things where the “bliss of ignorance” didn’t last long, and if I really knew ahead of time what I would have to learn and endure…well, let’s just say I’m sure I would have avoided it at all cost.
But here I am still and with only forward to go at 43 years old I have been humbled to admit that my old habits (mindset) didn’t served me well, and circumstances have forced developing new and improved methods of learning.
Maybe you can relate?
Are you at a time in your life of knowing that something has to change for you too.
If so then you are in the right place!
And, you’re not alone.
I am honored to have this opportunity to share with you what my struggle has taught me and especially how it can ease any steep curves of your own learning.
Rich’s Rapid Learning Acceleration considers 5 phases of learning:
1. Mindset
2. Preparation
3. Inputing
4. Process (to achieve being Unconsciously Competent)
5. Applying
Rich suggests that most of us use our brain the wrong way.
He distinguishes between “Just in Case” vs. “Just in Time” learning.
Think of learning as an investment.
Likely the most important investment you will ever make with your Time and Money.
What has been the return on your investment of learning?
There is so much more to share with you from Rich’s Schefren’s Rapid Learning Acceleration “5 phases of learning.”
If you’re interested to learn more about it let me know with your comments below.
I’ll make sure you benefit from this extremely valuable information.
Remember intelligence is not “fixed.”
Even if you’re as stubborn as I am you too can reawaken “Learning Elasticity.”
To Your “Learning” Internet Marketing Success, (Clicking on this link will be your personal invitation to become a Founding Club Member of Rich Schefren’s Strategic Profits site.)
T. Owen
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