Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Monday, March 28, 2011

Making Better Businesses With The Four Agreements

By David Dibble


The Four Agreements at work

For eight years Linda, my better half of 40 years, and I studied directly in the company of don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements. The Four Agreements became a huge triumph, providing currently in excess of four million copies worldwide. And yet what are the Four Agreements and how can they so effect the way of life of millions?

First, we'll examine each of the Agreements:

1. Be Impeccable with Your Word

2. Don't Take Anything Personally

3. Don't Make Assumptions

4. Always Do Your Best

The simplicity pertaining to the Four Agreements on their own will likely be appealing to the company. In addition, it appears many people would probably perform their best work following the Agreements. Why wouldn't the workplace desire to make the Four Agreements an aspect for their culture? The issue seems to be leadership.

Most organizations are still administered and led using fear and control as the central emphasis. Within an environment that fit this description, it gets to be foolhardy to be impeccable with your word. On top of that, you can easily make assumptions or take things personally. Rumor, scarcity of teamwork, and disconnection between departments are standard conditions in organizations in which fear and control manipulate the culture. This is all conducted mindlessly. It's just the way it is. Unquestioned.

But what if a company is guided by the much more Conscious Leader? A Conscious Leader will never let fear run wild. Instead, he or she tends to make two necessary principles the foundation of his or her leadership style. First, he or she appreciates that the institution will probably be only as high achieving as the workers who work there. A Conscious Leader is a people person who is aware that his or her responsibility is to set up his or her employees, workers, and teams, to produce the most value from their work. Secondly, he or she has knowledge that each individual's thinking determines the employee's performance. The leader wishes to be versed in how his or her employees think. Furthermore, the Conscious Leader chooses his or her personal thoughts astutely.

Character Types - The DNA of Thinking

Twenty years ago Linda and I stumbled upon a body of knowledge that changed our lives and our relationships for all time. It is defined as Character Types (CTypes) of the mind. These describe how every person thinks. CTypes are made in each particular individual via sun symbols of the Western Zodiac. Every different sun sign thinks in different ways. As an example, Leo thought processes are produced differently in contrast to Aries thoughts. And it is common knowledge that the way we think causes a lot of our behavior.

In a business, if leaders and managers can have an understanding of their employee's thinking, they can more effectively appreciate and relate with their workers and associates. At the same time, it is the leader's wisdom of self that will make him or her into a Conscious Leader. As a leader gets to be more self aware, he or she will have a great deal more space towards the Four Agreements being a portion of the company culture.

When you need to make the Four Agreements a facet of your workplace, contemplate applying CTypes to your management style. Character Types get the job done like nothing else to resolve management and collaboration challenges in any company. Still it certainly is at the level of Conscious Leadership in which the greatest benefit can be received. A master of CTypes is going to be a Conscious Leader. There is currently a lot more important information offered for leaders who desire to utilize and follow CTypes with self and other people in the place of business.

Wish to learn a lot more about The Four Agreements in business, please visit David Dibble's site. And, to strengthen your most important relationships at work, make it a point to check out a whole new world beyond DISC and Myers-Briggs personality profiles.




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