SKY IS THE LIMIT...

"The first official London plaques were erected in 1867 by the Royal Society of Arts at the instigation of William Ewart MP.... In total there about 700 official plaques and most of them are blue with white lettering,"
www.blueplaque.com

When you write your bestseller and then die you will get a blue plaque on the building where you were born, or lived, or wrote the damn thing - just so long as it was in London. When I say 'you' I don't mean you, I mean whoever it is that lives there after you've snuffed it. This blue plaque is there to commemorate the fact that you did a good thing while you were alive. If you didn't do a good thing, you don't get a blue plaque.

Now imagine that there is a blue plaque for management style and it's not limited to London. What would you get yours for? Would you in fact get one? Basically, how would you like to be remembered?

I want a blue plaque, I want it for being the best damn manager there ever was. I want it for being good for my team, getting results, setting standards, for being a huge success and somebody they liked working for.

So, coaching question : How would you like to be remembered ?

Many people find the journey more enjoyable than arrival at the destination. Setting goals and working towards them may be so absorbing that finally realizing them can be something of an anticlimax.

Make time to enjoy the moment; don't just look fiorward - your life is happening in the present.

- The future begins in the present - allow time to appreciate your accomplishments.
- Keep striving. Once you have achieved your goal, look forward to the next challenge
- Never forget those who helped you achieve your success
- Winning at life is about the effect you have on others. it is about the respect you feel for yourself, your sence of achievement, and the knowledge that you are the best you can be.
- Believe in your dreams- today's dreams have the power to become your future.

It is unlikely that you will achieve your goals without the aid of others. a team is not just a group of people with similar abilities; it's much more than that. There needs to be a chemistry that allows you to complement each other's skills, even if you're not compatible.

- Good teamwork is the secret of success
- Personal chemistry is crucial in a team environment
- You don't have to be close friends to be best teammates
- Your team is your support structure
- Threat losing as a useful lesson, not an occasion for regret.

"A good team player is someone who adds to the environment they're in."

it's unlikely that you will achieve your goals without the aid od others. It's essantial to consider the make-up of the team and the responsabilities of each member. A team is not just a group of people with similar abilities. It's much more than that. There has to be a chemistry that allows you to complement each other, even if you're not compatible. A team also has to be well led.  Any busineess is the same: there is someone who leads, and the team works together with the leader to achieve the company's objectives.

There can't be a dictatorship; there must be give and take. even if you're the boss, you can still learn from those you have working for you. As a member of a team, you have to believe in what you're doing. Teamwork - the secret of success

It is important that everyone within a team feels confortable and is given the opportunity to contribute. 

We worked as a team. We tried all sorts of combinations until we arrived at the formation we finally kept, and we got there by trial and error. Chemistry is crucial.

Your state of mind is a decisive factor in whether you will be a winner or a loser. No matter how hard the task, the smaller the elements the task can be broken into, the easier it is to accomplish. Ask yourself 'Can I do just one more?'

The answer will usually be: 'Yes I can'

- Work your way through the bad times: it will help you to appreciate the good ones.
- Be positive when a problem crops up.
- If a challenge is daunting, appproach it step by step.
- Use psychology to stay ahead, but...
- ... Beware of mind games - you could be the loser.

Getting rich is an inside job

What do you think when you think of being rich?
Do you imagine fancy cars, large homes and world travel? Do you think about fat men in expensive suits, smoking big cigars and looking around the room to see whose is the biggest? Do you imagine being able to make large donations to your favourite charities and creating a genuine and tangible difference in the world?

Each of these 'daydreams' reveals your current thinking, which is either holding you back or propelling you forward towards experiencing greater riches in your life.

So when I talk about 'being rich', I will be talking about one thing:

Being rich is living your life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.

Stop for a moment and really imagine how your life would be if you were already rich.

How would you spend your time?

Who would you spend it with?

What kinds of things would you think about?

How would you be on a daily basis?

What would you do?

What are the most important things you would have in your life?

If you're not rich yet, it's not your fault, it's not your parents'fault, and it's not even society or the government or the fate that's to blame. It's just an indication that your current wealth programming is faulty. Your mind is like a computer - and, like a computer, it's only as effective as the software it's running.

How your mind really works

I remember as a child going on a camping trip with my family. On the first night, the evening sky was dark and clouds obscured what little light the moon was shedding on things. Because I was unfamiliar wuth the area, I was frightened. Fortunately, I had a torch. At first I only shone the torch in the direction of the next scary noise, and consequently I got no real sense of the terrytory that surrounded me. But after a time, I became curious as to what the lanscape looked like. The next day, I spend time exploring the lie of the land with my parents. By the second night, even though I was still limited to a torch, I was no longer scared by what I could not yet see. I knee the territory well enough to know that as long as I took my time and paid attention to what I was doing, I would be safe.

Now let's put it into the context of making money. If you are not yet familiar with the world of money, it may seem strange and even a little bit frightening. You might be reluctant to try certain things because you're not quite sure where they will take you. But if you are willing to let me be your guide, I will introduce you to both the basics of money and your own internal 'torch'- the amazing world of your mind.

When an elderly John D. Rockefeller learned that members of his family intended to give him a wheelchair to help him get round his estate, he told them: 'If you don't mind, I'd rather have the money.' Think about that... 

A richer life

1. Think about what it would be like to be truly rich

Take a few moments to consider how your life would be better in each of the following areas:
- Relationships
- Career
- Family
- Health
- Recreation
- Spirituality

2. When you have a sense of what some of the positive differences of living a rich life would be, write down the four most important things you would be able to do, be or have as a result:

a.

b.

c.

d.

These four things are symbols of the highest values you currently hold around having greater riches in your life.

Now try the exercice overleaf. Go through this process at least three times a day every single day for the enxt three weeks. This will reprogram your unconscious mind for wealth in ways that you can only begin to imagine ...

The meaning of money

1. Complete these 12 sentenses about money, wealth and rivhes to uncover the key elements of your current unconscious programming.

1. People with money are .........
2. Money makes people .........
3. I'd have more money if .........
4. My parents always thought money would .........
5. Money causes .........
6. I'm afraid that if I had more money I would .........
7. Money is .........
8. In order to have more money, I would need to .........
9. I think money .........
10. If I were really rich, I would .........
11. My biggest fear about money is .........
12. Money is .........

2. Circle any of your unconscious beliefs about money that might be holding you back, even if they seem unquestionably 'true' to you.

3. Repeat this exercice daily for at least the next week. You may find some of the deeper programs take a bit longer to come up to the surface.

Reprogramming your wealth thermostat

The autor Brandon Bays has been using the following scenario as part of an ongoing study into the psychology of wealth:

You have been shortlisted for a job which you are well qualified. You interviewed well in the preceding rounds and are now one of the final five up for the job. Just before entering the final interview room you discover that the salary is not what you thought - it has an extra zero on it!

In other words, the salary for the job is actually ten times more than you thought it was. If you thought it paid £30,000 ayear, it turns out it really pays £300,000.

How would you feel as you were about to go in and face the interview panel? What would you do?

What comes up for you as you imagine yourself in that room? For most people, it brings up all sorts of emotional issues ranging from unworthiness and worthlessness to overhelm and even rage. A number of people in the study wouldn't even go in for the final interview. A job that pays ten times more than they are used to earning is simply too far outside their comfort zone for them to even consider it. The simple conclusion we can draw from this is that most people are carrying an unconscious 'upper limit' on how much money they would be confortable earning. This make sense, because our unconscious mind is a safety-seeking machanism. In this way, your unconscious works much like a thermostat. If the thermostat is set for 70 degres, then the chances are that the temperature in the room is around 70. If it started to get too much hotter, the air conditioning would kick it in and bring it back down into the 'comfort zone'.
Here's the key:

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reprogram the termostat.

It's the same with money, success, fame or any other things you may be pursuing in your life. The only way to permanently increase your wealth is to first reprogram your wealth thermostat!

'If you want to know the future, look at the past.' Albert Einstein