Be the Cause, Not the Effect |100 Ways to Motivate Others #04
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"Shallow people believe in luck. Wise and strong people believe in cause and effect." - Ralph Waldo Emerson-
A masterful motivator of others asks, “What do we want
to cause to happen today? What do we want to produce?”
Those are the best management questions of all.
People who have a hard time managing people simply have a hard time asking themselves those two questions, because they’re always thinking about what’s happening to them instead of what they’re going to cause to happen.
When your people see you as a cause instead of an effect, it won’t be hard to teach them to think the same way. Soon, you will be causing them to play far beyond their own self-concepts.
You can cause that to happen. But it all comes from who you are being from moment to moment. A producer or a critic?
We had the opportunity to watch and hear Neale Donald Walsch speak a couple years ago, and his message inspired us, as always.
It’s amazing who we can be if we are willing to drop the story of who we think we should be.
In our coaching practice we have always marveled at the fact that people grow, evolve, and move forward the minute they are willing to live without their stories about themselves (weaknesses) and others (threats).
Steve’s book The Story of You came out of those breakthroughs in coaching sessions.
Or, as Walsch has said, “Every decision you make — every decision—is not a decision about what to do. It’s a decision about Who You Are.
When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.”
Choosing to be a producer who causes things to happen will set you apart from most other people.
And that’s not always easy. Most managers just try to manage like other people manage, and lose all the potential of who they could really be by doing that.
Or, in the words of the fiery and brilliant philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.”
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Note:
The Content from:
100 WAYS TO MOTIVATE OTHERS, REVISED EDITION.
STEVE CHANDLER and SCOTT RICHARDSON
-Book-mart Press
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