Happy Friday Friends!
I hope and trust this email finds you all having a great day and a very successful week coming to a close for you!
This morning I want to share two excerpts from books I have been reading and then one quick thought from me.
From "The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy" by Jon Gordon
Five Ways To Love Your Passengers [passengers are ANYONE and EVERYONE who is on YOUR bus...the people you are doing life with. While most references in this excerpt will be business oriented you will see how they apply to our families, friends, etc., if we listen with our hearts.]
1. Make Time for Them - When you love someone or something, you spend time with them. You nurture your relationship with them. Get to know your team. Spend time with them. Meet with them individually. Get to know them as people, not numbers. While you are with them it is important to be present with them. Be engaged in the present moment. Really be with the person and focus your energy on them. They will feel the difference.
2. Listen to Them - One of the most important factors that determines a high management approval rating is whether the manager listens to the employees. Your employees and customers just want to be heard, so listen to them and hear them. We're talking about really sitting down and listening with your heart and caring about what they have today.
3. Recognize Them - Make it real personal. Honor them for who they are and what they do. Recognize them as a person as much as a business professional. The more you recognize them for doing things right the more they will do things right. Feed the positive dog inside them and watch it grow.
4. Serve Them - A great leader once said, the higher you get in an organization the more it is your duty to serve the people below you rather than having the people below you serve you. The key is to serve their growth, their future, their career, and their spirits so they enjoy work, life, and being on your bus.
5. Bring Out the Best in Them - When you love someone you want the best for them. You want them to be successful and happy. You want to bring out the best in them. The best way any leader can demonstrate their love for their team is to help each person discover their strengths and provide an opportunity for that person to utilize them. If you really want to love your team, help them do what they do best. It's that simple.
A few excerpts from "Becoming A Person of Influence" by John C. Maxwell and Jim Dornan- "Most people are funny; they want to get ahead and succeed, but they are reluctant to change. They are often willing to grow only enough to accommodate their PROBLEMS; instead, they need to grow enough to achieve their POTENTIAL."
- A quote from Helen Schucman and William Thetford, "Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity."
- A quote from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little."
- "The first thing you need to do is improve and enlarge yourself because only when you are growing and enlarging yourself are you able to help others do the same. Just as people will not follow a person whose leadership skills are weaker than their own, they will not learn to grow from someone who is not growing. Not only must you be on a higher level in your personal growth, but you must continue to grow on an ongoing basis."
My Thought/Challenge:
The only benefit we get from the things we learn is when we are truly willing to apply them, commit them, to our daily lives.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if there is ever anything I can do for you and/or your family. I will always be willing to help you any way I can.
Have a great day, a wonderful weekend and cherish, value and adore your precious families.
Kev
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