The Success Habit of Initiative - Donna Kunde & Londina Cruz

Londina Cruz & Donna Kunde - “Building Success Habits”

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Introduction
“If you don’t go after what you want, you will never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward you are always in the same place.”  – Nora Roberts

When we wrote this season’s topics, the habit of Initiative was one we decided needed to be explored. As your business grows you will need to learn strong leadership skills. In order to show up as a leader, you will need to cultivate the habit of initiative first. Leaders lead from the front and are expected to know the way, go the way and show the way. You can only lead from the front by honing the habit of initiative. 

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Objectives - The WHY
Initiative and Leadership are companions in your achievement of Success. Initiative is the foundation upon which Leadership is built. You must become a leader to build your business and initiative is the driving force to become that leader. Remember that your only limitation is the one that you set up in your own mind.

Key Issues - Owner Perspective:

1. You must possess both initiative and leadership skills in order to grow your business to its full potential.

What You Need to Know - The WHAT

• Initiative definition: the ability to assess and initiate things independently.
• Combining INITIATIVE AND LEADERSHIP allows you to become a leader instead of a  follower. You must have good skills in both areas to reach your maximum potential.
• It is an exceedingly rare quality to do what has to be done without being told to do it. 
• Four Levels of Initiative - Which level do you spend the most time in?
  • Level 1 is doing the right thing without being told. 
  • Level 2 is to do it when you are told once. 
  • Level 3 is to do the right thing when necessity kicks them from behind, "This level spends most of the time polishing a bench with a hard luck story.” 
  • Level 4, the lowest level will not do the right thing even when someone goes along to show them how and stays to see that they do it 
• Leadership is never found in those who have not acquired the habit of taking the initiative. You must intentionally become a great leader by first becoming a good leader. If you will carefully analyze all leaders whom you know you will see that they not only exercised Initiative, but they went about their work with a definite purpose in mind. You will also see that they possessed the habit of Self-confidence we explored last week.

What You Need to Do​​ - The HOW
Steps to become a person of initiative and leadership:

1. You must master the habit of self confidence and eliminate procrastination. You can use Autosuggestion to overcome procrastination. 
2. Copy the following formula and place it conspicuously in your room where you will see it as you retire at night and as you arise in the morning:  

INITIATIVE AND LEADERSHIP Formula
Having chosen a definite chief aim as my lifework I now understand it to be my duty to transform this purpose into reality. Therefore, I will form the habit of taking some definite action each day that will carry me one step nearer the attainment of my definite chief aim. I know that procrastination is a deadly enemy of all who would become leaders in any undertaking, and I will eliminate this habit from my make-up by: 

     (a) Doing one definite thing each day, that ought to be done, without anyone telling me to do it. 

     (b) Looking around until I find at least one thing that I can do each day, that I have not been in the habit of doing, and that will be of value to others, without expectation of pay. 

     (c) Telling at least one other person, each day, of the value of practicing this habit of doing something that ought to be done without being told to do it. 

I can see that the muscles of the body become strong in proportion to the extent to which they are used, therefore I understand that the habit of initiative also becomes fixed in proportion to the extent that it is practiced. 

I realize that the place to begin developing the habit of initiative is in the small, commonplace things connected with my daily work, therefore I will go at my work each day as if I were doing it solely for the purpose of developing this necessary habit of initiative. 

I understand that by practicing this habit of taking the initiative in connection with my daily work I will be not only developing that habit, but I will also be attracting the attention of those who will place greater value on my services as a result of this practice.
Signed………………………………………………….

1. Know the difference between positional leadership and personal leadership. Personal leaders command the respect and trust of those around them. Loyalty and influence doesn't come with a job title.
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4. Challenge beliefs that no longer serve you. Quote: Eric Hoffer - “No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need other people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps a book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need other people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.”

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