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What Do You Do With Your Time?

“Always apply your real-time wisdom (application of real-time learning) and knowledge.” – Raj Gavurla 

Consistently Perform: Experiencing Intelligent Breakthroughs In Your Performance & Life

For those using my Your Raise The Bar Primer: Mental Performance Tools workbook, are you making sure you are rating your day (auspicious, robust, excellent, very good, good, not so good).

My buddy Jordan (2nd grader) I’m mentoring drew this drawing of me. It shows me wearing Jordans (shoes). As in the Nike Jordan brand.

This upgraded my day from “very good” to “robust” as my day rating

Mother’s Day in my workbook is rated “auspicious”.

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Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership

Consistent Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership Success =

Do What You Love + Financial (Capital) Flow & Distribution + Creative Innovative Idea + Clarity of Vision + Leadership + Communication + Team + Execution

“The Zone” Effect

By many “the zone” effect is described as everything is in slow motion, time stands still (isn’t a deterring factor), and your performance feels effortless.

Here are three phrases I use to get into “the zone” experiencing “the zone” effect:

1. Business:  “Work in the moment”
2. Sports: “Play in the moment”
3. Life: “Live in the moment”

My Life: “The Zone” Effect created by my buddy Jordan (2nd grader) I’m mentoring.

Your Most Recent “The Zone” Effect

Here’s an exercise for you:

What do you do with your time?

I. Think the right way in between what you are accomplishing (doing)

Ex: Business: the time in between doing your work

Sports: the time in between actual play

Life: the time in between your work and play

and

II. Think the right way while you are accomplishing (doing)

Ex: Business: the time while doing your work

Sports: the time during play

Life: the time during your life

III. Evaluate Accomplishments

IV. Next Step

““The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

– Eckhart Tolle 

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Experiencing Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership #4: Solving Performance Anxiety

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
– Anonymous

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Experiencing Intelligent Breakthroughs In Your Performance & Life #4: Solve Performance Anxiety

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
– Anonymous

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Get It Done

“Get it done.” – Raj Gavurla 

Consistently Perform: Experiencing Intelligent Breakthroughs In Your Performance & Life

For those using my Your Raise The Bar Primer: Mental Performance Tools workbook, are you making sure you are writing your clear goal before actually taking action.   It will show you how much easier it is to experience intelligent breakthroughs in your performance and life by doing so.

Innovation and Entrepreneurial Leadership

“The Zone” Effect

By many “the zone” effect is described as everything is in slow motion, time stands still (isn’t a deterring factor), and your performance feels effortless.

It was Saturday morning and I drove to attend a community breakfast at Nicholtown Missionary Baptist Church.  It’s always nice and amazing meeting people and making friends in their place of worship.  There was an unexpected success.  The pastor wanted me to say the prayer before eating.  My day became auspicious (type of day to write in my workbook).  As I mentally prepared, I told myself “talk from the heart” .   We prayed and it was the first time I’ve lead a prayer in public.  I don’t have the words to describe the amazing feeling running through me.  An amazing “the zone” experience I will recall often.Your Most Recent “The Zone” Effect

Here’s an exercise for you?  Describe what causes performance anxiety and stress.  Then, change each factor so you experience “the zone” the next time you are scheduled to perform.  Performance anxiety and stress are usually caused by a time crunch (doing too much in too little time), environmental, relationship issue, or over thinking.

“A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments

can change the course of your life.” – Christopher Germer

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Win The Best Fun, Win Fun, Or Lose?

“Talk about living with more ease and fulfillment. I’m always giving, earning, experiencing breakthroughs building, and growing the right trustworthy relationships.” – Raj Gavurla

Did you “win the best fun”, “win fun”, or “lose”?  It depends.  If there are eight individuals or eight teams vying for the one “win the best fun” then one individual or one team “won the best fun”.  Does that mean the others lost?  No, it means they “won fun” in the order of their accomplishment.  Eight participated and no one or no other team had the privilege of participating.  When does someone or a team lose?  If they or their team didn’t have fun.

I write this because people  are being much too hard on them self.  As a boss or coach, your employees or athletes are being too hard on them self.  To experience and earn breakthroughs equip them with this intrinsic motivational and inspiring mental performance and life tool.

What would happen if we used this innovative way to create positive change in the way we keep track and score in business, sports, and life?  Do you think employees, athletes, family, friends, and making new friends engagement will build and grow?

Do you know, feel, see, passion, and energy flow in your mind?  Don’t mentally berate, yell, or be aggravated in your mind.  Use words equipping you to “win the best fun” in a mentally “soft tone”.

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” – Socrates

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Experience Intelligent Breakthroughs Performance and Life

“Breakthroughs in learning to experience performance and life breakthroughs” – Raj Gavurla

There’s no other way than learning from someone to generate breakthroughs in learning to experience performance and life breakthroughs.

Therefore, stop trying to do everything on your own.  It’s impossible because you have aspirations that require you to learn from someone.  What are the two main strategies to accomplish your aspirations?

     1. Ask for the right help and pay them

The point of significance is asking for the right help.  Your personal situation is unique and different and if someone is not able to listen first to what you want to accomplish to deliver the right help then you need to get the right help from someone else.  You want to build an authentic honest dialogue trusting relationship.  This isn’t about personalities it’s about performance and life breakthroughs leadership.

2.  Ask for qualitative advice and pay them

Who you receive advice from for your personal situation is huge.  Anyone giving you advice without listening to your personal situation, building an authentic honest dialogue trusting relationship with you, and doing research isn’t the right person to ask for qualitative advice for you.  When this is done the right way qualitative advice is given in a way that enables you to experience performance and life breakthroughs towards your aspirations.

Reflection:

1. Reflect on the times when you asked for the right help and paid them and also when you asked for qualitative advice and paid them.  It enabled you to accomplish your aspirations with more ease and fulfillment.

2.  Reflect on the time when you asked for help and paid them and also when you asked for advice and paid them.  How did it deter from you accomplishing your aspirations with more ease and fulfillment.

Do you know the difference between the right help, qualitative advice, help, and advice?

“Though you cannot go back and start again, you can start from now and have a brand new end.” – Unknown

For programs and services contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Give Constructive Feedback To Build Authentic Honest Dialogue Trusting Relationships

                         “Build authentic honest dialogue trusting relationships for each person to thrive.”

– Raj Gavurla  

I’ve seen several approaches for giving constructive feedback.  Here’s mine after agreeing giving constructive feedback to build authentic honest dialogue trusting relationships would be better:

1. What can be better?
2. Listen
3. Talk w/ each other to equip (don’t say, “you are suppose to know that” or “you don’t know that”)
4. Reevaluate in the future

Using this framework allows for mental preparation and for mental performance to forward performance of each person involved.

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”

– Theodore Isaac Rubin

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Amazing! After 42 Years, I Meet My 3rd Grade Teacher, Mrs. Link (Pelham Rd. Elementary)

         “Have serious fun serving someone.” – Raj Gavurla

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” – Princess Diana

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla.

Why Listen To A Speaker?

“Serve, give, do, help your parents and family, organization, teammates, clients,

friends, and others.”– Raj Gavurla

Last week I attended an event where people spoke about their solution for a better living and better future.  Afterwards, we took a break and as I networked with people I asked a few people what were the main points of a specific speaker.  None of them could tell me.  Therefore, it prompted me to write my post on why, how, and what to do when listening to a speaker.

Why?

When listening to a speaker, know why you are listening and discover why the speaker is saying what they say.

How?

Listen to how the speaker acknowledges, honors, what are the main points, examples, and stories.

What To Do?

What does the speaker do to connect with the audience.  When a speaker connects that means the audience uses emotional intelligence to take this experiential learning and apply it to benefit their situation and benefit extension by telling someone about the speaker and event. Throughout your life you will be able to recall specifics about the speaker and message (it moved you, an example, phrases, sound bites, stories, or statistics) you’ll use at the right time (often and sometimes for decades) to help you succeed in what you are doing.

I recall speakers and their message, examples, phrases, sound bites, stories, or statistics throughout my life.  It has a cumulative effect and I recall it when needed at the perfect time.  The is the real value of listening to a speaker.

When you have this frame of mind each time you hear someone speak you receive an experiential learning credit.

If their is an internal or external conflict you are experiencing when listening to a speaker, here is my advanced performance and life conflict resolution and idea generation tool.  Speaking is the highest form of experiential learning from a person.

I look forward to hearing about the greater value you are receiving from attending events with a speaker.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but

on building the new.” – Dan Millman

For programs and services, contact Raj Gavurla at 864.569.2315, raj@rajgavurla.com.

Adopt Habits From Your Relationships

I’ve been using my performance, life, innovation and entrepreneurial leadership tools in my speaking programs, private performance and life consulting, and coaching.  This tool among other concepts and tools appear in my Entrepreneurial Thinking Tools manual, Your Raise The Bar: Mental Performance Tools workbooks for business/education, sports, and Winning At Entrepreneurship.  There are more resources to help you at http://www.MotivateResults.com.