Leadership & Goal Strategies With Rich Nicholls

Following on from my last blog post, Your 1 Degree Difference, are these 8 Principles For Inspired Action from Ron Finklestein. Of course, I aim to dive a bit deeper and add my own twist, but Ron definitely gets full credit.

1. Intelligent Self Interest
When making decisions make sure that you are taking your own situation into account. You have the same amount of time in your day as everyone else. You have limited resources, and you have limited money. Understand what is within your best interest and choose to take action.

2. Learn to say ‘No’
Learning to say ‘No’ allows you to go from successful to significant. Most people really battle setting up boundaries for themselves. It is possible to let people down gently by saying ‘no’. Don’t burn bridges, and make sure you stick to your firm boundaries. This is one of the hardest principles to act on. People generally like to be liked, and fear that if they say ‘no’ people will stop liking them. That is why this principle can take you from successful to significant. Once you have it perfected, you will respected, trusted, and rapidly moving through life focusing on your goals. This isn’t to say don’t help others. But make sure you are not taking on any more responsibility beyond your capacity.

3. Ownership- Legal right of possession
Take ownership of your actions. You either did the task, or you did not do the task. Stop trying to find excuses. You may have a perfectly legitimate excuse, but then how much time do you waste talking about it and feeling sorry for yourself. There is nothing wrong with not completing a task, just take ownership, and make sure it gets done as soon as possible.

4. Measure Results
Find out what works for YOU. Don’t worry about everyone else. Find you strategies. If something is not working- then stop! Different people have different strengths. Make sure you build on yours. As you go you will build new strengths, then you can start building on those too.

5. Discipline
Learn to create successful habits. Don’t talk the million dollar game if your actions are giving you million dollar habits! Set up event goals and not results goals. An example of this could be: Result goal- recruit 1 person into your team a week. You have no control over this. But, as you do track your results, you know that on average it takes 20 phone calls to recruit 1 person into your team. An Event goal would therefore be making 20 phone calls a week.

6. People
Your success is completely 100% dependant on how well you coach, counsel, motivate, persuade and influence others to take inspired action. You need to understand what is important to others and why they would want to do business with YOU and not someone else. What sets you apart from everyone else?

7. Persistence
Persistence can be defined as a continuing effect after a cause has been removed. Even when things are tough keep going for it. Anything worth having is worth fighting for. How far are you willing to go to reach your dreams?

8. Action
None of the above principles are any good unless you take action. You need to decide for yourself to take inspired action. Make the most of every decision you need to make. Decide wisely, and if you chose to go for it, then REALLY go for it!

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