Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times

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These are the consequences of telling yourself you can’t do the things that you really can do. Repetition becomes hypnotic. Pretending that you are not suffering consequences from your current behavior doesn’t make the consequences any less real. Your past behavior is nothing more than an irrelevant story that you choose to tell and re-tell. The best predictor of future performance is the position that you are coming from right now. And that is yours to freely choose. You can choose right now to live as an invented you or a default you. It’s all the story of you anyway. What do you want the story to be based on? What you are creating today? That’s you at your very best. Or do you want the story of you to be based on past hurts and injuries to your ego? That’s where most people live. No wonder they are always so overly careful and cautious. No wonder they are always playing it safe and never really risking doing anything extraordinary.

I can’t solve this thing” is very different from “I won’t solve this thing.” You can choose how to behave regardless of how you feel. When you feel uncomfortable doing something, it means you have the opportunity to grow. Growth does not occur in the land of comfort. It all comes down to: 1) What comfort choices do I need to give up? 2) What growth choices do I need to take on? A straight-line leader is extremely effective at solving problems in life. They solve their own problems and they assist those they lead to become adept at solving their problems as well.People will do the deed (necessary required action) once they stop caring about anything but the deed itself.

eliminating the habit of throwing the “quit switch.” Some people, out of a life-long habit, throw the quit switch at the first sign of frustration. Their workout gets difficult, so they throw the switch and go home. Their day of making phone calls gets frustrating so they stop calling and go to get coffee with a co-worker for two hours of sympathetic negativity. As stated above, competency is not normally a problem for most circle people. Most circle people already possess adequate knowledge. Many have college degrees. Many of them have already read hundreds of books. But what they don’t realize is that knowledge must be utilized to be of value. An inner stance is chosen and reinforced on a regular basis simply by living from the inner stance. Inner stances can be empowering or disempowering. Explanations justify behavior but offer no access to alter behavior. Shifting your inner stance will.What new commitments do you need to create to get the future you choose? What results will you produce as a measure of your commitment? What are the necessary required actions?” Werner Erhard once said, “Power doesn’t come from knowledge. What people know doesn’t make them powerful. It’s being present to what you’re dealing with that gives you power.” It’s never what I know. These questions do not have to come in any rigid linear sequence. Everyone is different. We simply deal with what’s there in front of us. Focus on the “what I am committed to accomplishing now” list. Make a decision. Take the required action.