Posts Tagged ‘comfort zone’

Idea of the Day – The Confident Leader – 6

The next three ways that Larina Kase suggests to help turn your problems into opportunities are dealt with in this posting.

Build Supreme Motivation in Yourself and Others

As a confident leader, she suggests, you motivate yourself to get outside your comfort zone to get better results, but you also inspire others to move out of their comfort zones.

Mood is important and contagious and a harmonious climate leads to both inspiration and productivity. The better the energy level and mood of the team, the better the work performance.

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Idea of the Day – The Confident Leader 5

The second part of the book, The Confident Leader by Larina Kase comprises 10 chapters under the heading of How Confident Leaders Turn Problems into Dynamic Opportunities. Since it is likely that you have your fair share – or even more than your fair share – of problems, being able to turn a (significant) portion of them into opportunities seems a great thing to be able to do.

Let’s look at the first couple.

Focus on what’s Important

The first step in getting focused is to find what Kase calls your “Big It”, or what’s most important. This may seem obvious, but it’s not always apparent. An important – and seemingly silly – question is for whom is it important. Kase introduces the idea of the “Inner Committee’, which probably comprises all the people who have ever had an influence on your life. She asks: Do you want to do it, or is someone inside your head saying you ought to do it.

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Idea of the Day – The Confident Leader 1

GROWTH Step 1      Get your Exceptional Vision

What change do you want to make and why is it important to you?

Interestingly, one of the key factors that Larina Kase identifies about vision is anxiety, probably from her time on the clinical faculty of the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania. But it has to be the right amount of anxiety as she tabulates below:

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