YOUR PERSONAL SOLUTION TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL WAKE UP CALL: 5 STRATEGIES!
© Charles Kovess 2009 All rights reserved.
Reprinted by Remacue with permission
I reckon we’re facing a GFWUC, not a GFC. (‘Wake Up Call’, not a ‘Crisis’). But either way, change is upon us.
And economists who did not forecast the GFWUC are now trying to forecast when ‘normal’ times will be back again.
This is non-sense!
‘Normal’ times are not coming back again: before the GFWUC, we were asleep. Now we are forced to awaken. It’s painful to wake up. It’s uncomfortable to wake up. How many of you love it when your alarm clock rears its ugly head and shouts at you to WAKE UP SLEEPY HEAD? How many times do you hit the snooze button, for a few more precious minutes of glorious, warm, soft, pleasurable and blissful sleep?
It is so good being unconscious. Asleep. Nothing hurts!
Changing behaviour is incredibly difficult, even when you want to change and know you need to change. Yet, most of the stuff we read and see in the mainstream media is still trying to lull us into the illusion that change is not necessary. The more you read of this non-sense, the harder it is for you to change.
Let me share just one true story of how difficult it is to change behaviour.
I share this story in every speech and workshop that I present.
If someone said to you: “change your behaviour or you will die!” would you change?
I reckon I would, and I reckon you would.
Heart patients, over 80,000 of them, who experienced major heart surgery, were advised precisely that: change or you will die. Lose weight and get fitter, or you will die. And they all agreed to change their behaviour.
After 12 months, how many had succeeded?
Go on, guess!
Depressingly, the answer was 10%
Imagine that: even when faced with the threat of death, change did not occur.
I know how to be successful in the change process: after all, that’s what I have been teaching for the past 16 years, and practising in my life for 56 years, and I know the principles that apply and how they need to be applied. That’s what I share in my presentations.
So, what specifically do you change, to thrive and succeed now that this GFWUC has hit us? What is the Solution?
I have 5 GFWUC Passion Strategies© for you to contemplate and apply to your life that will create your Solution.
- Understand your value proposition . Because the global monetary systems (requiring cash) are in such a mess, with most governments printing money like Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, imagine that you live in a barter system where the results of your work can only be bartered. Who would barter with you for what you presently provide? If you find it difficult to imagine, then it is likely that you are not adding real value to your clients’ lives. If you are producing C.R.A.P., then you have a problem. You need to change.
- Understand your productivity rules and limits. Your productivity is limited by your energy: that’s why passion is so important. From my first book Passionate People Produce (available online at www.kovess.com/books.htm), my definition of ‘passion’ is that it’s “a source of unlimited energy from your soul, or spirit, or heart that enables you to produce extraordinary results”. When you have lots of energy, you are much more productive, and your productivity will determine your ability to barter. Just contemplate this: your nation’s economy is rated by its Gross Domestic Product. That ‘product’ requires you and me to be productive.
- Understand your fears . You will find change almost impossible if you don’t learn how to handle your fears. And the first step is to understand your fears. Of course, many of us deny that we have them, and if you are a senior executive or a CEO, you cannot possibly have them (or at least admit that you have them!) But you do have them and they block you from changing and they block you from implementing your Solution. Here’s one fear you might have: the fear of leaving your current job that doesn’t inspire you, indeed depresses you. But staying in such a place will metaphorically kill you. Just like the heart patients’ story.
- Understand sustainability principles. These principles apply to you as a human being, they apply to organisations (because they are comprised of human beings), they apply to every tree and animal on the planet, and they apply to the planet as a whole. What makes you think you can ignore these principles? Learn them. Become aware of their application to your unique life. Observe successful living things. As one practical example, contemplate how well you look after your body so you can sustainably perform in magnificent health. Most people treat their bodies abominably, and then look for rescue and sympathy How can you maximise your energy and your productivity in a body that you treat unsustainably?
- Understand personal responsibility. You are ‘responsible’ for your nation’s gross domestic product: the government is ‘accountable’. I urge you to understand the difference between the two words. You are responsible for your life. You are responsible for your local community. You are responsible for your mental, physical and spiritual condition. I find very few people who understand what this concept means. I find very few people who are willing to take personal responsibility. The organisations I work in are dramatically transformed when people learn to take personal responsibility for the organisation’s future success. Individuals who attend my workshops or whom I coach transform their lives when they really ‘get’ personal responsibility.
If you understand these 5 GFWUC Passion Strategies©, you will discover and create your Solution.
You will have woken up.
You won’t keep pressing the snooze button, hoping that your Government will save you, while you stay trapped in the comfort zone of past behaviours.
If you already practise these Strategies, then you know that what I am en-couraging readers to do (literally injecting courage) actually works!
And every one of you on the planet that discovers and creates your unique Solution will make a contribution to the planet’s GDP that will create a future that works amazingly well for everybody, not just a privileged few.
That’s the wonderful global benefit that the GFWUC is capable of producing.
Best wishes
Charles
STEP TO TAKE
Let us help you discover your Personal Solution to the GFWUC. Come and attend one of our One Day Passion & Profits Programs. Dates are below!
Send us an email and we’ll be happy to send you the details of the Program and how to register.
Alternatively, we can send you details of our Executive Coaching Program, if you prefer to work one-on-one with Charles or one of our Directors.
One Day of Passion Provocation: dates to put into your diary for 2009
Can one Passion Program change your life?
The answer is a resounding YES!
How do we know? Because for the past 16 years many attendees of our Programs have told us so!!
The scheduled dates for 2009 for One Day of Passion Provocation & Profits:
MELBOURNE
Saturday 20 June
Thursday 6 August
Saturday 22 August
SYDNEY
Tuesday 16 June
Saturday 4 July
Tuesday 15 September
Other cities by arrangement. email
Charles Kovess LL.B.(Hons), LL.M., CSP, MAICD, MAITD is Australia's Passion Provocateur. He is a Director of Remacue®
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