As an ambitious business professional, you know that keeping your commitments and delivering results is essential to success. Yet, in today’s fast-paced world, it’s all too easy to become overwhelmed by the sheer number of tasks you have to complete. That’s why we’ve designed our upcoming webinar on Scheduling and Keeping Our Commitments specifically for you.
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When you try to be everything to everyone, you become nothing to no one. This is true for individuals and companies.
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The bestseller—Atomic Habits—claims that your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. We agree. But what habits get us closer to our professional goals? What ambitious habits help satisfy our loftiest aims?
Robert Cialdini identified the 7 Levers of Influence that people use to persuade others: reciprocity, commitment or consistency, consensus or social proof, authority, liking, scarcity, and unity. These levers have become widely used for persuasion since the book’s first publication many decades ago.
When it comes to getting people to take action, every exchange is an opportunity to persuade them.
How do we apply these levers in our transactions?
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How do we think accurately about our Money? Where do we tend to not think accurately and why does it matter? Money is the value of our help in the marketplace. Money includes currency (cash), equity, highly specialized skill, and other valuable forms of exchange that allow us the opportunity to transact in the marketplace. The more money we have, the more options, opportunities, and autonomy we enjoy.
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We are defined as much, if not more, by what we decline as we are by what we accept. If you don’t respect your offer, no one else will. Staying present to your aims in each Condition of Life – and – being informed by the commitments, promises, and obligations already in place will be your greatest guide for what invitations, offers, and requests will (or will not) offer you the best use of your time, energy, talent, and concerns.
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Activity is what we do (the actual activity) with our body/mind to produce satisfaction in all of the Conditions of Life. How do we think accurately about satisfying this condition?
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Health is one of the fifteen unavoidable Conditions of Life. How do we think accurately about our health? Where do we tend to not think accurately and why does it matter? Dr. Gary Ward helps us understand more about this condition.
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These are the common Habitual Breakdowns in any Condition of Life. These include a collapse of Conditions, magical thinking, and an addiction to excitement or threats. As Co-founder Kirkland Tibbels says: “Rather than study, practice, and learn the habits, behaviors, and ethics that must be embodied in order to reach their chief aims in life, most people adjust their aims to fit their current habits, behaviors, and ethics.”
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