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This Is The One Simple Key to Greatness
Russell Bishop
Author, Executive Coach, and Performance Improvement Consultant
December 13, 2010 08:58 AM
Workarounds: One Simple Key to Greatnes
Last week, I asked "Are You Choosing Greatness or Just Settling For The Crumbs? Today, I would like to share a few more ideas that can help you overcome what gets in the way of having the life you want.
Indeed, each of us has been confronted with difficult circumstances and unattractive choices. You probably did not "choose" this economy, the lost job, the shattered bank account. And yet, here you are. The only choice you really have is what you will do to work around whatever is holding you back.
Much like the sailor who loses her mast in a storm, you can bemoan your fate, or you can come up with a "workaround," a "jury-rigged" temporary mast that will at least get you going again. While it may not be a perfect solution, at least you are moving again. Sometimes the path from crumbs to your version greatness is simply a question of finding that temporary solution, something that at least gets you moving.
My new book, "Workarounds That Work: How to Conquer Anything That Stands in Your Way at Work," addresses this question in a number of work-related circumstances, ranging from overwhelming workloads and meaningless meetings to uncooperative people, misaligned silos and broken systems. In this article, I want to share with you a powerful "workaround that works" to improving your life, a simple yet effective approach for overcoming anything that appears to be in your way.
That workaround is a simple question: "What can I do that would make a difference in my life that requires no one's permission other than my own?"
Of course, the value of that question is relative to your willingness to simply ask the question in the first place. Now, if you don't want to change anything, if you would rather wallow in the hopelessness of the economy and blame politicians, bankers, and just about anyone else for your predicament, that's your choice. But if you want to find a workaround that will get you moving again, read on.
How You Frame the Problem Is the Problem
Last week, I suggested that an important key to overcoming life's challenges lies in how you frame the problem. If you frame the problem as impossible, then you won't find many choices to help. If you frame the problem as the economy, the politicians, the bankers, etc., you won't find much you can do.
The article suggested that you can choose to move from crumbs to greatness simply by your willingness to take those first steps.
BrooklynCitizen echoed a sentiment held my many when writing:
While all this is valuable we keep stressing the individual as if all their choices actually allowed control over their life. We can at best guide our lives but certainly not control it. Also what is not mentioned is the role other people play in our greatness. Behind every great life is a great support system; no one does anything alone and if they live this way they will fall short of greatness.
BrooklynCitizen was so close to getting the idea, and then fell into a somewhat common misperception that obscures the point. That misperception? That the game of life is about controlling something outside your own self.
The one thing that you can control is something most people ignore as though it were meaningless and insignificant: you may not control what happens in your life, but you do control how you respond to what happens. Regardless of the situation, you always have a choice about how you respond, about the choices you make next. The choices may not seem all that great, but if you don't make the ones available, you have no chance at finding your version of greatness.
The challenge is that simply making a choice, even the best one available in the moment, rarely vaults you from crumbs to greatness. However, that one forward-moving choice, no matter how small and apparently inconsequential, may be the choice that puts you on the path to greatness.
Viktor Frankl's incredible story of surviving Nazi concentration camps involved his startling realization that freedom was the experience he had just after the Nazis did something to him and just before he chose how he would respond. That freedom to choose his response was the one thing the Nazis could not take from him, and so it enabled him to remain in a position of control -- not much control, mind you, but enough that he was able to endure through the incredible agony and horrific circumstances to which he was apparently doomed.
Did his choice about how to respond make a difference in his life? Sure did. Did it change his circumstances? Not so much. But did it make a positive difference? Beyond all measure, because the choice to remain resolute in his own inner experience allowed him to survive and to eventually thrive.
Remember, positive thinking just doesn't work, at least not all by itself. Positive action works. But how do you take a positive action step without first having a positive thought? You can use this one simple question to put you on the path of discovering your own workarounds for whatever is blocking your path.
There's more to the puzzle, to be sure. However, no matter where you find yourself, there's always some little step you take that will begin to move you forward.
How about you? What choices could you make that would put you on a path to overcoming whatever is in the way?
I would love to hear from you about your ideas, about how you have chosen in the past or what you are focusing on as you look ahead.
Please leave a comment here or drop me an e-mail to let me know your experience.
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Airport security finds ammo in boxing promoter Don King's carry-on
Airport security finds ammo in boxing promoter Don King's carry-on
Greg Morrison
CNN December 13, 2010 2:44 a.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- King was headed out of Cleveland after wife's funeral
- No charges are filed
- King has promoted some of the greatest fighters in boxing history
(CNN) -- Security officials found ammunition in the carry-on luggage of boxing promoter Don King as he headed out of Cleveland after attending his wife's funeral, an airport spokeswoman said Monday.
The incident took place at Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport Sunday night, said spokeswoman Jackie Mayo.
"He was stopped at a security checkpoint and ammunition was found in his carry-on luggage," she said.
The ammunition was confiscated and King was allowed to continue to his flight, Mayo said. No charges were filed.
The Transportation Security Administration also confirmed the incident, without identifying the passenger.
King was in Cleveland for the funeral of his wife, Henrietta King, who died of stomach cancer at age 87 on Thursday.
Known for his flamboyant style and showmanship, King has promoted some of the greatest fighters in modern boxing history, including Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier and Mike Tyson.
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Single-sex schools prosper if you can get kids to go
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Santa Claus axed for Frosty
Last Updated: 11:50 AM, December 12, 2010
Posted: 12:21 AM, December 12, 2010
He's a lost Claus.
A politically correct West Village YMCA has fired Ol' St. Nick in favor of Frosty.
Kids who once thrilled at sitting on Santa's lap at the 14th Street McBurney YMCA's wildly popular annual holiday luncheon will now suffer the icy embrace of a talking snowman and his sidekick, an anonymous penguin, at today's event.
Forget about bringing a list or checking it twice -- Frosty doesn't take gift requests, and doesn't care if you're naughty or nice.
YMCA officials, who say they are in the midst of "rebranding" the Young Men's Christian Association to "The Y," defended their decision.
GETTY IMAGESTHAT'S COLD! A West Village YMCA has given Santa Claus the boot in favor of Frosty the
Snowman for its holiday luncheon.
Helayne SeidmanFrosty the Snowman
"It wasn't replacing; it was transitioning," said John Rappaport, executive director of the McBurney YMCA. "We realized that change is sometimes good, and that Frosty is a great winter character who would appeal to a broader number of kids."
The decision to ditch Father Christmas came down from McBurney branch administration, not the Y's Chicago headquarters.
A chilly reception greeted the news that the YMCA -- an organization founded to spread Christian values in 1844 -- was replacing the Christmas icon with a secular cartoon character.
"Christmas is not about Jack Frost; it's not about snowmen," fumed Bill Donohue of the Catholic League. "We're not talking about some secular organization that has no religious roots. If they can't celebrate Christmas, then they should check out. What a bunch of cowards."
"Santa belongs to all the people," added Ed Bobrow, who has played Santa at Central Park's Belvedere Castle for years. "He represents openness and an invitation for anyone and everyone to celebrate good will toward man."
Bobrow, who is Jewish, says it's the kids who will miss out. "Try to see it through the eyes of the children," he said.
"It's sad that people are so offended by a man in a red suit," said Taylor Patterson, an 18-year-old member of the McBurney Y. "It's not a Christian thing. It is the spirit of the holiday that counts. I think the Y is well intended, but misguided."
Director Rappaport offered an olive branch to critics, insisting that everyone is welcome today -- even "Santa . . . if he's in town."
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Ban on bathroom leads to riot
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Rush Limbaugh agrees with Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann all slam Obama's tax deal
Gojkovich,Brown/Getty/MSNBC/APKeith Olbermann, Rush Limbaugh and Rachel Maddow have all spoken out against Obama's tax deal with the GOP.
This could be a first: Rush Limbaugh agrees with Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.
The right wing radio host slammed the GOP's tax deal with President Obama during his show on Friday, arguing Republicans are giving up too much to get it.
"I now hope this deal fails," Limbaugh said. He then urged Republicans to allow taxes increase so they can use their new majority in the House of Representatives to pass a better deal in January.
"Let 'em go up. Wait for our cavalry to show up and deal with this the right way, They had two years to deal with this," the radio show host said referring to the Democrats. "They've had the two years of Obama's presidency to deal with this and they haven't, on purpose. They want the tax rates to go up. We're selling for nothing."
Maddow and Olbermann have also blasted the deal, but for different reasons than Limbaugh. The liberal television hosts are concerned the two-year deal will become permanent.
Olbermann also argued the compromise benefits the rich and gives too little to the poor and middle class.
"Mr. President, for these meager crumbs, you have given up costly, insulting, divisive, destructive tax cuts for the rich and you have given in to Republican blackmail which will be followed by more Republican blackmail," Olbermann said earlier this week.
On Monday, President Obama and the Republicans announced the tentative deal to extend the tax cuts for all Americans for two years. Obama had previously said that he wanted to extend them for all but the wealthiest Americans - individuals who earn more than $200,000 or households that make more than $250,000.
In exchange, the GOP agreed to extend employment insurance benefits for an additional 13 months, among other things.
Progressives are furious with the President for conceding the extension of the upper-income tax cuts to the GOP - something he'd promised on the campaign trail he wouldn't do.
Self-described Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gained national attention on Friday after a nearly nine hour speech railing against the deal, claiming later that it wasn't a filibuster.
During his Saturday radio and Internet address, the President said the deal wasn't perfect, but overall would benefit Americans.
"Our recovery will be strengthened or weakened based on the choice that now rests with Congress," he said.
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Biggest Celebrity Slim Downs Of 2010
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Miley Cyrus Parties with a Bong
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Nun arrested for embezzling $1.2 million
HOSister Marie E. Thorton is being investigated for embezzeling $1.2 million from Iona College.
A Catholic nun who served as the vice president of finance for Iona College was arrested Thursday for allegedly embezzling more than $1.2 million from the school.
Sister Marie Thornton, 62, was charged with stealing from the New Rochelle-based Catholic school over a 10-year period beginning in 1999 by submitting false invoices and using a college-issued credit card, prosecutors said.
It took officials until May 2009 to notice that something was amiss with school finances, according to media reports.
"I expect us to reach a result in this case that all parties would be satisfied with," said Thornton's lawyer, Sanford Talkin. "She's back to being a nun."
In September, the school newspaper reported that the suspected swindling sister was taking a six-month leave of absence due to medical reasons and that she wasn't expected to return to the campus.
After she surrendered to authorities yesterday, she pleaded not guilty at a Manhattan Federal Court arraignment. She was released without bail.
Calls to the school were not immediately answered.
More than 4,000 students attend the college, which is located 20 miles north of Manhattan.
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Former President Clinton Endorses Tax Cut Deal
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The World's Ugliest Animals
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Major Dem Donors Vow To Withhold Funds Over Obama
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Professor arrested for exposing self in class
KSU instructor arrested for allegedly exposing self in class
Alexis Stevens
The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionCobb County News
6:13 a.m. Wednesday, December 8, 2010
A Kennesaw State University part-time instructor was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to students in a classroom.
Cobb County Sheriff's Office Raymond Taylor, of Kennesaw, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to students he was teaching at Kennesaw State University.
The incident occurred on Nov. 30 between 4:35 and 4:45 p.m., the university police department states in the warrant.
A student in the class reported the incident to school officials Friday, Arlethia Perry-Johnson, vice president of external affairs for the university, told the AJC.
"We took this issue very seriously when the student complaint was registered," Perry-Johnson said Tuesday evening.
Taylor, of Kennesaw, was arrested Monday at the university and charged with public indecency, according to jail records. He was released from jail Tuesday afternoon after posting $5,000 bond.
Taylor declined to discuss the incident when a WSB radio reporter called him at home late Tuesday.
Taylor, who worked in the business department on a contract basis, taught an accounting class during the fall semester on Tuesdays and Thursdays, according to the class schedule posted on the university's website.
"He will not be teaching again at KSU," interim Provost Ken Harmon told the AJC.
Any other students with information regarding the incident are asked to contact campus police. The incident remains under investigation.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/ksu-instructor-arrested-for-769677.html
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