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Growth and Leadership
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Awakening To Greatness: 7 Traits of Greatness for Creating an Extraordinary Business Futureby Denise Corcoran We are all born with the potential for greatness. There are no exceptions. Yet most people realize less than 10% percent of their potential, while a small handful of others rise to extraordinary heights and become legends in their own rights.
Read the autobiographies of great achievers in any field - athletes, entrepreneurs, business leaders – and there is one great common denominator. They know that success comes from the inside out. External greatness derives from an internal source. It is not a goal you achieve. Rather it is a state of mind. An inner game where the only way you can claim victory is to elevate your mind.
Through the tools of NLP (NeuroLinguistics Programming) and modeling, I have isolated the following 7 differences – the common inner game -- that propels each achiever to greatness. Learn and model their inner game, and you will expand your own playing field and accelerate your business success a thousand fold.
Power of Mission and Vision “I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three; over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four; over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.” Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple
Power of Values Anita Roddick – CEO, multi-billion dollar franchise, The Body Shop – is one of the world’s most outspoken, controversial, and successful entrepreneurs of the age. Her passion for social and environmental causes – the basis for every decision she makes – reminds us that your can create profits with principles and “you don’t need to lose your soul to achieve success.”
Power of Beliefs For example, great achievers are typically rebel-thinkers. They believe that “rules are made to be broken.” Warren Buffet – the second wealthiest individual in the world – went against the norm by picking companies/stock based on their business value, rather than their stock value.
Power of "Journey" Walt Disney was a high school drop out who suffered bankruptcy, risked it all 4 times and suffered repeated financial and business disasters, yet persevered with faith and determination. If you want to reach a different destination, you must travel a different journey.
Power of Decision-Making Despite dyslexia and not doing well in school, multi-billionaire and CEO, Virgin Company, Richard Branson, decided early on that he would make his mark in business. John F. Kennedy, Jr., made a decision – without knowing how - that we would send a man to the moon during his presidency.
Power of Daily Success Habits Warren Buffet plays monopoly for endless hours and memorizes over 200 annual reports a year. Donald Trump reads the newspapers by 6 am every morning.
Power of Self-Identification While they learn from their past, they do not let the past define them. Despite an early life of abuse and poverty, Oprah Winfrey knew that she was destined for greatness. The breadth and depth of her personal evolution – including, humanitarian, 34 time Emmy winner, chairman of Harpo Entertainment, outstanding actress, political lobbyist and most successful woman in TV history – reminds us of our own boundless potential to become more than we currently are.
Right now, the only thing keeping you from your own greatness is that part of you – your mind -- is ‘asleep.” You are boxed in by your own “inner rules” and the boundary conditions of our thinking. I invite you to take time to answer the above questions and identify which of
the above 7 levels is most holding you back. The good news Denise Corcoran, a business and leadership coach and CEO of The Empowered Business(tm), has 31 years experience as a business coach, consultant, and former corporate executive. Subscribe to her monthly ezine, The Empowered Business(tm), at http://www.empoweredbusiness.com/Newsletter_signup.html.
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