If you’re like me, you think about how we can continue to stay on point with our goals and stay motivated when things appear to crumble around us. The crumbling is often referred to by others I’ve heard as “life.” It’s interesting to understand what people mean when they say “life happens.” For me it’s not so much that it happens, but what my response is when it does. What are my thoughts about it? What is my attitude towards it? What are my feelings? What are my actions? If you remember from previous blogs, I used a formula that comes from a book we highlighted earlier.

Thoughts = Feelings = Actions = Results

When an event in life happens it is usually neutral until we assign an emotion to it. The trick is to keep on moving in a positive direction with whatever happens. I could talk about this subject for the next 12 months and only scratch the surface. In short, to give it everything you got as life happens, you have to have something bigger than the obstacle to move you in the right direction - no matter what. Allow nothing to knock you off the right path.

I believe this to be a very important way to think but what I've found is that not many people think this way. It isn't something we are born with. I mean, we don't at birth just have all the right ways to think uploaded into us. That would be cool though. The point is we need to be taught. Then we need to teach others and our team.

First, we spend time coaching and training the team to find out what motivates them. Second, teach them how to keep that in front of them all the time (focus on it). You cannot motivate me more than what my family and the things most important to me already do. Once you are motivated you need the plan to carry it out. You must work that plan to get the intended results. Thoughts create feelings, feelings create actions, and actions produce the result.

This is something that has helped define our company culture at Diverse CTI. You will always win if you genuinely want your teammates to also win, and maybe play a small part to help them achieve it.