Episode 147: "Preparing for service" - Plan for Victory 2021!"

Greetings, Summit Leaders.

You are encouraging and inspire others by your commitment to growth.

"You are ready for the next phase. There are still some things you have to work on, but you are ready." I heard yesterday as a senior sales advisor provided feedback to a group of Summit Leaders.

They have focused, dedicated, and disciplined themselves for over 148 days of intense training and preparation for their assignments.

A growth mindset is one they adopted months and even years ago.

Now, more than ever, leadership requires that we embrace this way of thinking.

Do not be conformed to old patterns of thinking.

Become a transformed leader by renewing your mind; how we think.

Prepared for service includes three fundamental mindset principles.

Clean heart: The heart or the core of our being will affect how we see and respond to opportunities. What is motivating me to want to grow?

Why am I planning to take these actions? These are essential questions to answer.

They will energize us for the hard work ahead.

Clear Conscience: Knowing your motives are pure and your intentions are right enables us to envision as we plan. Also, ensuring that all our relationships are as much as depends on us, without contention. The higher we climb, the lighter our load needs to be.

Confident mind: Freedom in our heart and thinking empowers us to be bold, brave, and courageous to accomplish even greater works.

This winning way of thinking recognizes the reality of the challenges ahead and chooses to believe all things are possible.

Great leaders believe their abilities grow through dedication, focus, and disciplined hard work, and that your mind and talents are just the starting point.

This thinking looks to the ant as a parallel to their journey.
Someone wisely suggested; "go to the ant, consider its ways and be wise! Though it has no ruler or commander or overseers, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest."

"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." — Admiral James Stockdale.

We know that progress will not come easy in the months and years ahead. Yet, choose to practice disciplines that make you stronger and stronger as you go. Commitment precedes power.

Please take this perspective.
1) Recognize progress over time means noticing how you or others have improved versus evaluating how you performed at a single point in time. It offers a new way of thinking, encourages a positive and constructive way of examining setbacks.

2) Encourage others in their going forward ensures that they will reach out when they need help, without the fear of looking incompetent.


3) Experiment with new approaches by observing habits in great leaders and adopting them in your growth plans in the coming months.

Now is the best time to start!

Victory