Important Class Announcements |
New EQ Class Added!
EQ: Communicating with Power is one class that no
effective communicator can afford to miss. Experience secrets
that only the most effective communicators know and use. In
addition, one of the most powerful processes in all our courses
is contained in this class.
The next EQ has now been scheduled
for September 22-24, 2005. It will be held in Northern California.
Contact the office at (775) 575-2298 to get more information and to sign up.
Click here to learn
more.
Awakening Classes Are Filling Quickly!
If you've been planning to send a starfish
through Leadership Awakening, please act now to make sure you
get the dates you want. Please note that we've added a class in
Sacramento and another Reynosa, Mexico class. To see the full updated schedule,
including which classes are still open,
click here.
Imagine How Your Teenager's Life Could Be
Better...
Imagine how your life would have been if you'd had the tools and
focus of Awakening when you were still a teenager. Then imagine
how your teenager could benefit from these tools right now.
Imagine how this gift would benefit them for the rest of their
life.
We're planning to schedule a Teen
Awakening for sometime this summer. To do so, we will need at
least 10 teens enrolled. Dates and location will be determined
by the area from which we get the greatest response. Contact us
today by
clicking here or calling the office at (775) 575-2298 to
sign your teen up. You can also
click here to read
more about this powerful class.
Farewell BBQ at the Fernley Ranch
In just 3 weeks, on June 5th, 2005, the last class ever to be attend at the HBS
Fernley Ranch will graduate. To celebrate this historic
occasion, we're throwing a BBQ bash for graduates, their
families and friends. Please contact Carrie at the office to let us know you'll be coming and how many you'll bring - we
need to make sure there's enough food for everyone. All we are
asking is that you bring a side dish - we'll supply everything
else. Call Carrie at (775) 575-2298 or email her by
clicking here.
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Today's Message |
Connecting the Dots
By Dr. Bruce Eichelberger
If you are like most leaders, you have spent a fair amount of time working on your leadership
skills. You've read books, listened to tapes, attended
seminars, gone through Leadership Awakening and Adventure
(you have gone through Adventure, haven't you?) All of these
provide you with crucial concepts and skills—tools to help
you become more effective at bringing your vision into
reality. These sources of information usually get your attention,
motivate you and make you
think. Then the information typically fades
away over time. Even the powerful learning from Awakening
and Adventure eventually fades unless you make a
conscious effort to reinforce it on a regular
basis. Tools unused lose their edge. This is why we always emphasize practicing your 5 + 5
every day.
I compare this reinforcement process to the childhood activity
of drawing by connecting the dots. You probably remember
this one - you have a page that shows only dots and it's
your task to discover the hidden pattern by connecting the
dots together. How does this apply to your
leadership skills? Each of the individual skills and
leadership concepts you know are like dots on the page. They make no sense
unless you can connect them together meaningfully in your
everyday life. This takes time and attention in the same way
that making the image appear on a page full of dots does.
You can't only look at the dots and imagine what the final
result will look like; you must also apply effort to the process of making the connections so that
the final picture—your vision—manifests in your life.
In the same way that anything—a plant, a pet, or a
relationship—will die if it isn't cared for in the proper way, your leadership skills will atrophy (see
today's Word Play below) if you don't spend time connecting
them to your daily life. By intentionally making
these tools a part of your day to day experience, you will
nourish, strengthen and most of all come to embody these
skills in every part of your life. This is when you will see
your vision come true.
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Action Steps for Today -
Making the Connection |
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You already have a large collection of
powerful tools at your disposal. Just the concepts from
Leadership Awakening and Adventure are enough to make a huge
difference in your life. How are you applying these?
Your action steps for today are to review
your notes, handouts and workbook from Awakening and/or
Adventure or some other favorite source. Select one of the leadership concepts you that you might have overlooked the first time, or that
you feel you can better implement into your life. Then,
incorporate this into your daily journaling, 5 + 5, prayer
or other reinforcing activity.
Once you begin doing this, consciously think
about where and how you can use this tool in your everyday
activities - in other words, connect this concept to your actions.
If you do this every day for a week, you will find that it
has already begun making a positive difference. If you like
the effect, pick another concept and do the same thing next
week!
Send us an email at
newsletter@empoweru.net about
your experiences 'connecting the dots.'
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Empower U Graduates take the tools they gain in class
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for all of us. Recently, Jim Burnett of Team 416 had the
opportunity to practice one of the Awakening principles
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Just a quick note about "your actions
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I was standing in line at Starbucks in
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Word Play |
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"Atrophy" means to waste away,
deteriorate, or shrink. This can refer to physical
characteristics and well as non-physical ones, such as
intellectual atrophy.
An example of using this word comes from today's
message in the sentence, "In the same way that anything—a plant, a pet, a relationship—will die if it isn't
cared for and nourished the proper way, your leadership
skills will atrophy if you don't spend time connecting it to
your everyday life and actions." |
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Tools of Choice - by Jim
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There are many” things” we do during the
course of an hour, a day, a month, a year and a lifetime. Most
of these we pre-qualify in some fashion, either privately or
publicly:
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I want to
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I need to
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I have to
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How many choices have you pre-qualified in
category #4? Or more appropriately, how many do you choose
to pre-qualify in that manner? Hmmm… interesting question.
When I am honest with myself, I discover the
answer is not always to my liking. Each of the four choices
above is just that, a choice. And each of these choices is
an offshoot of what our attitude is at any given moment.
There are so many years of preconception and
auto-response wired in all of us that we become strangers to
our true selves. The most unique aspect of the gift of
Awakening is the chance, the opportunity, to peel back the
layers and rediscover who we really are and who we are
capable of becoming. From this springs the ability to begin
the process of wiping away the old screen, of rewiring the
circuitry so that we can present our true selves to the
world.
I say begin the process because that is
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it is underway. The reality is that this journey will last a
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what you need to successfully navigate each step is vital to
reaching the end.
Our attitudes shape our choices, and our
choices shape our journey. What shapes our attitudes? Being
honest with ourselves and refusing to hide behind the old
smokescreens, the old self-deceptions. We cannot truly focus
on our vision for the future without being willing to
jettison the old baggage.
Also, using the plentiful tools you have
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Want It. Create It. Live It.
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