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That’s how I “Role”!

Monday, October 15th, 2007

There are plenty of planning methods out there. There are a lot of different ways to organize your schedule. Which one is best? Well, of course the answer can be highly subjective. However, based on my experience in coaching thousands of clients, to be more effective in getting the results they want out of business and life I have found a method that works best for most. It is Roles-based Planning and it can make all the difference in the success you achieve in the significant roles in your life. Here’s how it works:

weekly-compass-sample-2.jpg1st:
Clearly define your vision for each of your significant roles in your life. Are you a Business Leader, a Husband, a Mother, a Friend? What is your vision for fulfilling those roles in your life? The more clear and well-articulated the vision the greater the likelihood you will achieve it.

2nd:
Plan goals for each role each week. These are not necessarily big, long-term goals, but rather goals that can be fulfilled and accomplished within the coming week. List these goals right under your roles. The most common way to do this is called a Weekly Compass (right).

3rd:
Time-activate your goals into your schedule. I suggest you color-coordinate them with a different color for each role. I use blue for my role as a Business Leader and pink for my role as a Husband, purple for my role as a Father and yellow for my role as a Coach. The colors you choose are up to you. Of course this will add a few minutes to the planning process. However, the increased effectiveness in the execution of your plan will make it more than worth it. Here is a sample calendar that has been color-coordinated to match the Weekly Compass and Roles it is associated with (click calendar to enlarge):

 

Weekly Calendar (Sample)

 

This life, and the success we enjoy in it, is all tied to relationships, and every relationship we have is tied to a role the we play in that relationship. The more successful you are in your roles, the more successful you are in life.

To your Success!

Kip Kint
Success Coach & President
Mission Ignition, Inc.

You Can Have Your Elephant and Eat It Too!

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

When is comes to success we have all heard the age-old question, “How do you eat an Elephant?”  And of course the answer is, “One bite at a time.”  But, which bite do you start with?  No one ever seems to ask (or answer) that question.  First, to be successful you must break your elephant down into Hunks, Chunks, and Bites, then schedule appropriate time to “eat” the bites.

Your goals are nothing more than elephants.  You must break goals (elephants) down into Hunks, Chunks, and Bites and then schedule time to “eat” the “bites” of your goal, or in other words, perform all the various tasks associated with your goal.

This is one of the primary systems discussed in the Mission Ignition Launch Workshop & Coaching Program.  We refer to these as Achievement Systems.  With Achievement Systems you systematically approach your goals and break them down into manageable pieces which are then time-activated into your schedule.  I will finish this week’s Success Blog with a little poem from an unknown source:

You can eat an elephant.
Oh, yes you can it’s true.

They may be huge but not to worry,
they aren’t to big for you.

Just how can I eat such a thing
that’s so immense in size?

Just look at it in pieces
and make them all bite-size.

You see to look from head to tail
can be a daunting task.

Many would just give up now
and let the elephant pass.

Look at it as if you can
eat it piece by piece,

It may take you a while,
but your goal you will reach.

So, next time you have a task
that is difficult to do,

Remember, you CAN eat an elephant
so take a piece and chew!

To your Success!

Kip Kint
Success Coach & President
Mission Ignition

Constant Course Correction

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Mission Ignition Success Blog.  I hope to warm you up with more insight into principles of effectiveness and success, so pull up a chair and put another blog on the fire (sorry, couldn’t resist).  I hope this week’s thought will shed a little light on your path to success.

This week’s blog is just a little longer than usual, but will be well worth the extra two minutes you spend reading it. I thought I would share one of my favorite stories.  It is based on actual facts and statistics provided by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and it has significant relevance to our journey to success.  I help my clients all the time with their missions, values and visions.  These documents are not only very touching and inspirational, but they typically paint a pretty lofty picture, as they should.  In fact, many clients will describe the mission they discover and the vision they create as a description of their “ideal” or “perfect”.  There is just one problem - they are not perfect.  I am not perfect.  You are not perfect.  So how does an imperfect person live a perfect (or near perfect) mission?  The answer is “Constant Course Correction.”  Enjoy the story; it illustrates this principle beautifully.

TO ERR IS HUMAN
by Raymond Jones

If you were to take a long trip, say from San Francisco to Hawaii, aboard a 747 with several other people, you might be appalled if you knew who was flying the airplane.  It is not the pilots; it is a couple of guys named Fred and George.

Fred and George are two black boxes, and they really are referred to as Fred and George.  Fred is a gizmo called an Inertial Navigation System.  Fred knows at every moment exactly where the airplane is and where it is supposed to be.  In the old days a human navigator took a look at his instruments and did some figuring, and by the time he had the position worked out the plane was long from that spot.  Fred knows now where the plane is.

George is the autopilot.  He moves the controls to guide the airplane this way and that, speed it up or slow it down.  He and Fred talk to each other constantly.  If their conversation were in English, it would sound something like this:  Fred will say, “George, we’re off course two degrees to starboard. And George will say, O.K. Fred, I’ll fix it.”

“George, we’re off course three degrees to port.”
“O.K. Fred, I’ll fix it.”
“George, we’re forty knots below our airspeed.”
“O.K. Fred, I’ll fix it.”
“George, we’re three hundred feet too low.”
“O.K. Fred, I’ll fix it.”

This conversation continues all the way to Hawaii, and George and Fred bring the giant plane within a thousand yards of the runway in Honolulu within five minutes of the scheduled time of arrival.

The incredible thing is not so much the accuracy of Fred and George, but the fact that the airplane has been in error 90% of the time of its flight.  In error 90% of the time and still it lands on target and on schedule!

The secret is that George made thousands of errors in driving the airplane, but for each error Fred called out a correction and George corrected.  The flight line was made up of thousands of small jogs that criss-crossed the ideal straight flight line and still put the airplane at its destination when it was suppose to be there.  A rocket to the moon travels in exactly the same way.

If we human beings could see that we can get a 747 to Honolulu or a rocket to the moon even having been in error 90% of the time, we might be a little less uptight about being in error ourselves.

There’s nothing that kills performance like fear of failure, fear of being foolish, fear of being caught in error.  We are particularly prone to this fear.

The secret to the success of Fred and George is correction.  They work as a perfect team.  Fred spots an error.  George corrects it immediately.  Some human beings work that way.  Most don’t.

To be in life means we are constantly off course.  What is important is not that we are off course, but whether or not we make the corrections that need to be made.  Human beings differ from Fred and George in one important and often fatal respect - the desire to protect one’s position.

Suppose Fred and George were human and Fred had just pointed out for the fiftieth time that George was wrong.  George, the human George, would likely reply, “Will you leave me alone!  I’m doing the best that I can.  If you think you can do any better, come and fly this thing yourself.”

Fred and George, the machines, don’t do that.  They work together and get the job done.  Human beings don’t like correction.  They prefer to protect the position they have taken.  But, in reality, any response that takes offense to correction is inappropriate.  If the person who gives you correction is a fool, to be upset by a fool is to make yourself an even greater fool.  If the input is of value, then to not consider it places you once again in the position of a fool.

Most people don’t make the necessary corrections because they are too busy being concerned with protection.  Most people’s failures in life are a product of protecting themselves when they should have been correcting themselves.

It is almost as if people drive down the highway of life and suddenly notice that the gas gauge is nearly empty.  Instead of correcting, pulling into a gas station, they cover up the gauge and pretend it isn’t there, hoping that when they wake up in the morning, an elf, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny will have filled up the gas tank.

The unwillingness to be in error and correct it is the source of most failures.  Somehow the notion persists that you can get away from failure, that we can succeed enough to never fail again.  That possibility just doesn’t exist.  It is like trying to eat once and for all.

Successful people, like the 747 airplane, are willing to live in error and are willing to correct.  They are people who are busily doing what they don’t know for sure how to do.  They recognize that life is not a riskless process.

“George, you aren’t going in the right direction!”
“O.K. Fred, I”ll fix it.”

To your Success!

Kip Kint
Success Coach & President
Mission Ignition

Can Time Really Be Managed?

Monday, March 12th, 2007

How are you doing this week?  Are you executing according to plan?  How’s your balance?  Are you fulfilling your community responsibilities, taking your spouse on a date, playing with the kids, reading, exercising, and walking on water on a regular basis?  It sounds like a lot, doesn’t it?  How is it even possible to do all the things that are important to us?  Here are a couple of ways that many people try:

1.  Sleep 8 hours

2.  Try to get everything done (without much success) in 16 hours

3.  Repeat until you die

or maybe you are doing it like this:

1. Sleep 4 hours

2. Try to get everything done (without much success) in 20 hours

3. Repeat until you die at a much younger age

Seriously, you’ve heard it before, “If I just had more time I could get it all done.” The only problem is you can’t do “it all” because “it all” means everything, as in “every single thing”.  If you can provide the name of one person that can do “it all” (mortals only please), then I will concede that I am wrong about this.  Until then we must acknowledge that time management is a misnomer.  Here are two schools of thought from two very famous people in history:

Isaac Newton: Time is absolute, regardless of human experience.

Albert Einstein: Time is relative to human experience.

Who is right?  Well, ask yourself, do you remember the first few minutes of your day like this, “6:00 AM…  6:01 AM…  6:02 AM…”  or more like this, “Alarm went off…  hit the snooze…  alarm went off again… got up…  exercised…  took a shower…  ate breakfast… drove to work.”

The basic element of time is not the second, or the minute as Newton might have argued, but rather “the event” in our human experience as Einstein suggested.  I have read similar ideas from other great authors. If there is such a thing as time management then the key to it lies in controlling our events.  The only way that can be done is to make better choices about what we will do, and what we will NOT do.  Who would have thought that all of this effectiveness, balance, organization, and time management stuff would all boil down to one, simple, lasting, proven principle… Accountability!

We are accountable for the choices we make. We cannot be effective and simultaneously blame others for our seeming lack of time. Personal Effectiveness and Victimism are mutually exclusive. You can’t be both a victim and effective at the same time. We all have the same amount of time, 168 hours, every week! So, improve your choices and you improve your time. In a sense you will be able to manufacture it. Oh, you won’t REALLY have more, but it will FEEL that way, and in the end that is all that matters. You will be less stressed and more productive. You will be less overwhelmed and more balanced. You will be spending the right amount of time on the right things instead of wasting time trying to do “it all.”

Success is all about choice and accountability.

So, what are your thoughts?  I encourage you to post your comments and discuss your insights and paradigms.  We can all benefit from sharing our successes and insights with each other.

To your Success!

Kip Kint
Success Coach
& President
Mission Ignition


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