This Science is Blessing or Cursing Your Business,

You Get To Choose

Just like integrity, momentum is not a touchy feely term, it is a fact of science. I see more leaders make mistakes in this area than really any other. 

The Evolved Economy doesn't need your money or a lot of your time ,but it does require your attention and your energy. There does come a time when it requires less but that time is a lot further down the road than most expect. So the mistake commonly made is for leaders to let their foot off the gas too soon. They begin to only manage other folks' businesses and not their own. They expect everyone else to be an enroller except themselves. They leave behind the simple building blocks that brought them there and they move on to loftier matters.

WRONG!

Momentum is the result of the mass of your team multiplied by the velocity of it's growth. I know you think you can measure the mass of your team but are you measuring accurately?

The mass of your team is not how many folks have their name attached to your organization. 

"The mass of your team is the accumulation of people who are adopting and implementing the values you have set out for your business." 

They are offering the sale level of customer service. Their image of the future is starkly similar to your own. They are owning their business is the same way you were one or two years ago. They are a number of burgeoning leaders blossoming in your downline. This is the true mass of your team.

If you don't have these yet, your mass is just you. Therefore your team momentum is solely tied to your activity and nothing else. This is not the time to reduce the amount of energy your business receives, it is time to "Put the Hammer Down."

Hammer Down Activities:

Enrolling- start leading your team again as a key enroller

Duplication- start or continue to duplicate necessary business activities in other folks business centers.

Mentoring-take aside those who aspire to lead and 

1. show them how, 

2. implement it with them 

3. and hold them to a high standard. 

(Do all three of you want to see momentum)

Do you have momentum in your business? Good, don't lose it. No, well let's get some by taking action!

Have you ever felt like you are right in the middle of the sweet spot? Have you ever felt yourself so immersed in utilizing your God-given gift that you begin to realize that in that very moment you are actually embracing the Divine? I experience this from time to time and none so often as when I am practicing the calling of "High Level Mentoring."

Just last night I was enjoying a quick visit with a wonderful couple I have been coaching for more than a decade. I looked at the clock and realized that I needed to make the short drive home to my farm to have a phone call with another dear friend who I just happen to also be in a mentorsing relationship with as well.

As I was leaving I told this couple how much fun I am anticipating having on this call. I am blessed to have known some real geniuses in my decades of mentoring. The genius comes in a different package and leads various types of lives, but genius none the less. Well this man is a special one and I shared how much fun it is to watch his mindset shift and the his real genius begin to take center stage.

Those of you who know me personally know just how much I love it when I call it right on the money. The day before I had been laughing with another great couple over the fact that I had predicted the meteroric rise in their revenue and when I had done so they had chuckled at me. But today they are chuckling for an entirely different reason. It's not magic, there is no trick, there is no pixie dust. This couple had been tirelessly co-creating, tirelessly pouring greatness into their leaders who are just now finding their footing in the Evolved Economy. And like scent of rain in the air that my lovely wife can so succeinctly detect, I have a nose for the fullness of time in a leader's life and mission.

I was right about the call. My friend shared interaction after interaction that demonstrated to me just how definitively he was exercising his Divine giftedness. He was sharing conversation after conversation that exposed his greatness in touching lives with a surety and confidence that inspired others to act similarly. And then he shared the moment I love. The moment when the spiritually minded begin to realize that living into your greatness and using your giftedness in service is well, holy.

The Scriptures tell us that everything we do has the possibility of experiencing the Divine. It happens when the finely created instrument realizes that he is not the result of randoms actions but instead the intense focus of a Master Craftsman. And when we are utilizing our greatness without embarrassment or false humility we a in an act of worship, and if we quiet our hearts enough, we can hear heaven signing harmony to our melody.

You see our worship is a type of the Evolved Economy as well. It requires mo spire or stained glass windows. It needs no invocational prayer or anthem hymn. It only requires us being aware what the wonderful gift we have been awarded in stewardship to the Divine allows us to experience our Eternal Significance.

And as my friend shared his "cathedral experience" of realzing the significance of what he was witnessing in his own life, I had mine. Knowing that this fragile and faulty road quide had successfully given the right directions to assist another pilgim in finding his way home . I was in worship, I was feeling like something sacred was being shared and I had been given the privilege of being a witness to it all.

I don't what life you're living, but I know. And I am in gratitude to be a worship leader in the Evolved Economy!

Yes, It's True, "You Can't Push a Rope."

So many of us struggle with having our emotions leading the way in our life and our business.  It is debilitating. It takes us out of out power and strengths and can halt all the momentum from our team.  It doesn't have to be that way.  We can manage our emotions but we have to know how.

We can't manage or shift our emotions by just forcing a different emotion on our self. Our emotions are best shifted by taking action. A friend of mine just this past week had a challenging conversation that previously would have put her in a slump. But instead she took action. She called up a old friend who had said she was interested in being in the Evolved Economy. She made the lunch date and was excited and encouraged. Her actions shifted her emotions. Actions can shift our emotions but emotions can't shift emotions. 

Some of us try to even shift our actions with our emotions. This is like trying to push a rope.

Actions are connected to our emotions but with a rope. Actions can pull our emotions along but EMOTIONS CANNOT PUSH OUR ACTIONS! You can't push a rope! 

So if you don't like how you feel, take a action that will transform you feelings.

PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN AND GO BACK TO WORK!

After coaching successful leaders in the Evolved Economy this many years there are some choice words of wisdom that I feel sometimes like I just need it on a recorded loop. That's because too many times the needed advice is simple, but essential.

You see when the sun comes up the farmer milks the cows. When the sun goes down, yes, you guessed it, you milk the cows. There is no substitution for consistency and deliberate, hard, and focused work. Moods, inconsistent leaders, revenue swings, all these things tempt the Evolved Economy leader to give up hope. With hope lost so will leave the needed investment of empowered actions to produce your passive revenue stream.

REVENUE STREAMS  comes from EMPOWERED ACTIONS comes from SHIFTED MINDSET

If your head is in the right place, then, 

"PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN AND GET BACK TO WORK!"

In the next 12 hour the sun will either be coming up or going down or both, will you be doing what you should be doing to advance your own Evolved Economy? Yep, it's time to milk the cows!

Are you resonating with who you really are?

A number of times this weeks the concept of resonance keeps coming up. People are exploring their strengths and are finding that certain actions and postures feel in harmony with their own personality and calling and others cause them to feel out of tune with themselves. Unfortunately the traditional economy has a way of dulling every image down to beige. Bold and vibrant colors are discouraged as they make some individuals stand out in the crowd. So everyone who wants to get along learns to dumb it down to the lowest common denominator.

But in the Evolved Economy beige simply doesn't pay. The Evolved Economy requires that you perform solely based on your strengths, no matter how unique these may appear at first sight. You don't struggle with working on your weaknesses, after years of effort you will succeed at accomplishing mediocre. No, the Evolved Economy requires that you expose each other's strengths and work in empowered teams to accomplish multitudes more you could ever do alone.

So you need to know what resonates with you.
You need to embrace your true greatness.
You need to edit out all the unreliable advice you have received that was attempting to make you conform, fit in and join the masses.
You were not created to be a lemming.
You were not designed to be indistinguishable from each other.
You were placed here to be exceptional, extraordinary and distinct.

So come join us in returning to our own gifted-ness.
Learn the power of using your strengths with inexhaustible ease.
Find the inner song that is held in tune by careful attention to your own individual tuning fork.

Life is a majestic choir raising their voices in harmony and in doing so finding our own message,  our own voice and our own true self. 
Welcome to the Evolved Economy!

 No this isn't my age, it is a goal. I am 48 today and I choose to aim for a 95th Birthmonth. I intend to take my children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc, and all my friends who have been transforming the Third World with me over the 55 years I will have been serving by then. I want to blow out a candle and eat chocolate cake in every village.  I hope it takes more than a month.
You see in the Evolved Economy we don't spend much time reminiscing about what we have done because we are too invested in what we are doing. This means lifting up your eyes to look beyond today's struggle to see tomorrow's victories. It means seeing possibilities through a Divine perspective.  It means welcoming in others to offer their greatness to ours and together accomplish so much more.
I am the CEO of my own life in the Evolved Economy and I am making choices today that will allow my tomorrow's to produce the fulfillment of our dreams.

Two Measured Ingredients for 

a Truly Evolved Economy

The concept of an Evolved Economy is a relatively new one. Most people are never fully introduced to a real one. Ignorance, gullibility or poor explanations often get in the way of a leader getting an accurate definition or description of the Evolved Economy. Let me help with two essential ingredients. Time and Money.

Time is more precious than money for most leaders today. An Evolved Economy attempt is most often something added to an already strained time frame. So if the opportunity that you are being offered feels more like a second job than an informed decision, well, it probably isn't an Evolved Economy. 

In the Evolved Economy you can build in the nooks and crannies of your life. You will sacrifice your attention to prime time TV but that's what TVO is for. You will invest a weekend day each month but you have some to spare as you re-align your priorities. But you should still date your spouse and attend your children's sporting events. The Evolved Economy is designed to mold to your strengths it will make the move with you.

In the Evolved Economy you also should have a very small outlay of money. A large financial risk is not congruent with the Evolved Economy model. If someone is expecting you to raid the education fund to get the placement of a lifetime, run away and lose their phone number. 

Be choosy which Evolved Economy gets your attention, your wisdom, your experience and your greatness. But choose one. Revenue streams need to be introduced into your financial blueprint for your life and the financial legacy for your family. But choose one that sets appropriate boundaries on your time and your money, because if it doesn't, it's a traditional economy in sheep's clothing.