Let’s review the key steps to developing rituals and establishing change and introduce key number five – enlisting support. Here are the five keys:
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Topics: Discipline, change, leadership, rituals, habits, support
Have you ever had a hard time establishing a new habit or routine? As noted in my last blog, Discipline Rituals – What We Resist Persists, we derive a certain amount of comfort or safety doing what we’ve always done. That’s why it’s so difficult to change. Even the most powerful commitment to change is often counter balanced by an unconscious or subliminal commitment not to change. Exposing our fears to not changing is key number four in building effective rituals.
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Topics: Discipline, priorities, rituals, routine
In my last blog Discipline Scheduling - Three Keys to Building Effective Rituals we looked at three keys to building effective rituals. The three keys are:
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Topics: Discipline, rituals, precision and specificity
How important is it to specify the time you are going to do something to predict accomplishment? Precision and Specificity is one of the three key to establishing effective rituals. Researchers have found that even chronic procrastinators are eight times more likely to follow through if they set a specific time to complete it. Here’s an example from Be Excellent at Anything that illustrates the importance of precision and specificity.
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Topics: time management, rituals, precision and specificity, routine
How well do you get things done? Do you get your daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly priorities completed on time? How well do your people do at this?
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Topics: Discipline, priorities, rituals, precision and specificity
One of my clients got me involved in Sports World, a non-profit organization that speaks to students about making positive choices. In preparing for our second effort in my area I’ve recognized how powerful their message is even to business.
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Topics: Discipline, priorities, rituals, habits, top priorities
If you’re an athlete or have watched sporting events you know that it’s recommended to stretch and jog before engaging in strenuous activity. Does it make sense that you should train your people to do the same thing in your work environment?
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Topics: People, productivity, rhythm, routine
Last blog, Tortoise or Hare, Which Discipline do you Follow, we discussed three fundamental principles for sustaining high performance. Let’s look at the first principle, that we cannot expect growth or improvement in any dimension of our lives without intentionally and regularly challenging our current capacity.
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Topics: leadership, use of energy, stress
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Topics: employee performance, human behavior, rhythm, The Power of Full Engagement
I’m on vacation this week and thought I’d direct you to a couple of blogs and an interesting video that may directly or indirectly offend some people. I thought about discussing political correctness however that is a blog that could go on for quite some time and I’d miss my plane this afternoon. The blogs stress getting the right people and how discipline in choosing the right people can dramatically influence productivity.
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Topics: Discipline, productivity, The Right People
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