TAKING YOUR LIFE TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Warren Rustand

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Our lives

86,400

700,000

28,000

The choices we make

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We are the sum total of our life experiences

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

- Aristotle

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Getting to the next level

Economic meltdown

Political chaos

Global tragedies

What should we do?

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We are challenged

Physically

Emotionally

Economically

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What is greatness

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is a matter of conscious choice and discipline.”

- Jim Collins

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During crisis, chaos & challenges

We discover who we are

Life gets our attention

Individual greatness emerges

We define greatness. “It” doesn’t define us.

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What is greatness

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.”

- Ghandi

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How to achieve greatness

To accomplish great things we must not only dream, but plan, not only believe, but act.

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Why change is needed

Survival

Eliminate habits, memories and behaviors

Acquire new habits, skills and capacities

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Why change is needed

Rocks in a backpack

Change is a catalyst for extraordinary results

Think about great people

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What you can do

Challenge your status quo –self confrontation

Embrace the possibility of your personal greatness

Never underestimate your power to change your life

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Track Meet

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Five principles of personal greatness and leadership

1. Commit to personal discipline

2. Live with purpose

3. Act with intent

4. Make conscious choices

5. Engage a cause greater than self

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Commit to personal discipline

Mindset

Exercise

Nutrition

Schedule

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Commit to personal discipline

When you correct your mind, everything else falls into place

All that we are is the totality of what we have thought

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Live with purpose

Personal vision statement

Family vision statement

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Live with purpose

“No success in life compensates for failure at home.”

- McKay

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Act with intent

Strategy is everything. If strategy is wrong, execution doesn’t matter.

Life is not chance, but premeditation

Strategies for life

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Make conscious choices

Stephen Covey – Great moments of truth

Core beliefs and values

Commitment

Behavior

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Decisions made once

Marriage, family

Alcohol, drugs

Ethics, values, beliefs

127 hours

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Leadership –James McGregor Burns

Transactional vs.Transformational leadership

Take that which lies in an unconscious state and raise it to a conscious level

Are you a transformational leader?

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Leadership

“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted conduct.”

- Nathaniel Emmans

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Leadership

“People acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.”

- Aristotle

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Cause greater than self

Service above self

Community and country

Lift where you stand

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Leadership

To hear it is to forget it.

To read it is to remember it.

To do it is to understand it.- Manchu Tribe

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Four things once spent, never return

Sped arrow

Spoken word

Wasted second

Neglected opportunity- Omar Ibn Alhalif

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Olympic Race

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