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Who Not How
Freedom Of Time
Freedom of Time Who Not How-The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork covers the following four areas: Freedom of Time. Freedom of Money, Freedom of Relationships, and Freedom of Purpose in relation to achieving your goals by collaborating with others.
How often have you set an important goal, started a project related to that goal, and gotten in the middle of it or possibly almost to the end but then abandoned the entire thing because you didn’t have the time or possibly the know-how to finish it? Maybe you are one of those people who think the only way to get things done right is to just do it yourself? (That’s definitely me)
Coach and author, Dan Sullivan says most of the time when we start something we get caught up in the how of getting a thing done. But in his latest book Who Not How, Dan tells us that a better question to ask instead of How is Who. As in, Who can help me accomplish this goal? Who has the time or the knowledge to bring this project to completion that I could ask to help me?
Now as a society we are brought up to work independently and to depend upon ourselves for success, aren’t we? But what if you asked yourself instead of “How am I going to get this done,” you asked yourself, “Who?”
Co-Author, Ben Hardy echos that sentiment. He says “You can accomplish a million times more if you stop asking “How?” and instead start finding Who’s to do the things that you don’t need to do or that you are not able to do. ” Things that are outside of your sphere of genius.
Ben goes on to say when you do it all yourself, you have dozens of decisions to make regarding each goal or project. All of those decisions exhaust your willpower and ultimately drain your vision! Which, of course, is counterproductive to achieving the things you are called to do.Freedom of Money
Freedom of Money The second important concept covered in Who Not How is the Freedom of Money. Dan and Ben say when you are focusing your energy on figuring out How to do something, you usually have a money scarcity mindset and as a result, you avoid spending money or investing money in your project.
Ben says you can have way more if you invest in Who’s to complete many of your tasks, allowing you to place your attention and energy in places that directly increase your revenue.
In the long run trying to do something that you don’t have the time or the knowledge to do will cost you several times over.
Ben and Dan recommend “seeing Who’s as an investment, rather than a cost. By investing in the right Who’s, you can quickly 10X or more your income and revenue. So you ultimately make more money by spending money to have someone help you.Freedom of Relationships
Freedom of Relationships. Next Ben and Dan cover the concept of the Freedom of Relationships.
In business relationships, it’s important to make sure you are creating value for all of the parties with whom you are involved. Always value your Who’s and treat them fairly.
Always ask “What’s in it for them?” rather than “What’s in it for me?” Pour into those relationships as much as your Who’s are pouring into you. There is always something besides money that you can give back.
At the same time, you do need to guard yourself against getting into business relationships with individuals who are not appreciative of your time or your talents.
There will be people who will want to do business with you that, no matter how lucrative the transaction looks, it will not be worth the way they treat you and the way they will treat other people.
When starting a business relationship look carefully at the other person’s overall level of respect for others as well as their professional ethics. If they treat people badly or if they are dishonest, that’s a business relationship you can avoid. Making Money is never a reason to engage in a business relationship with people who lie to you or treat others badly.
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
—attributed to Mark TwainFreedom of Purpose
Freedom of Purpose The last principle Dan and Ben discuss in Who Not How is the Freedom of Purpose.
Freedom of Purpose is the sense of vision and purpose you have for your life.
Ben Hardy says, “Your sense of purpose expands as you see deep meaning and value in what you’re doing.” He says by getting certain Who’s involved in your current goals and vision, you will be able to expand and grow that vision exponentially. Moreover, by getting the right Who’s involved in your current goals and vision, that vision will also expand and grow dramatically.
I really like that statement. Not only will we be able to grow and expand our goals but our vision for what God has called us to do will also expand and grow dramatically.As the saying goes, Two heads are always better than one!
A beautiful example of a collaboration of purposes is that of C. S. Lewis. J.R.R Tolkien and the Inklings. Through their collaboration, their callings were magnified and multiplied in a way that cannot be refuted. It’s hard to imagine what would have happened had Tolkien and Lewis worked independently. Very likely, there would not have been The Lord of the Rings or The Chronicles of Narnia. Or if the men had written without help from each other, it’s very likely the results would not have been as dynamic or as impactful as they turned out to be.
These men were driven by their God-given purposes and worked together to produce works of great meaning and significance.
I know that you also are driven by a purpose and that the things you are called to do also have great meaning. Without purpose, after all, regardless of your success or who you collaborate with. your work is shallow and meaningless.
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only
by lack of meaning and purpose.”Review and Final Thoughts
Review As discussed, Who Not How covers the following four areas:
- Freedom of Time.
- Freedom of Money,
- Freedom of Relationships
- Freedom of Purpose
When pursuing our goals and working on our daily endeavors, we ask ourselves over and over, How can I do this? How can I do this better or do it faster? How can I get this project done?
Dan and Ben put forth the question: “Who can do this for me?”
Instead of limiting yourself to what you can do alone, the authors encourage us to create connections that will greatly increase our results and very likely greatly enhance the end product of anything we could ever do alone.
My prayer for you today, then, is that perhaps this book will help you look at your Hows differently and that you will be blessed with Who’s in your life that will help you serve out your greatness.
Who Not How
To help you do that, I have purchased 5 Kindle versions of Who Not How to give away. If you would like a copy, be sure to respond to this post or send me an email at ladeana@littleblogonthecorner.com. I will send you a copy to download if you are one of the first five to respond.
Reviewing soon:
Choose to Win with Tom Ziglar
Choose to Win shows you how to achieve massive change without massive upset. It all starts with identifying your why, which reveals the how that opens multiple doors of what. His revolutionary plan guides you through making one small choice at a time through a sequence of easy-to-follow steps in seven key areas: mental, spiritual, physical, family, finance, personal, and career. Ziglar also helps you identify the life-killing, unhealthy habits that cause misery, dissatisfaction, and lack of success—and, more importantly, how to implement positive habits through the trinity of transformation: desire, hope, and grit. The result is a more productive, more fulfilling, and more meaningful life.
You can take control of your destiny and leave the lasting legacy you’ve dreamed about and deserve. You simply need to choose to do so.
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Everyone Deserves A Great Manager
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I wish I could come up with a better way to describe my feelings about this book but all I can really say is wow!I truly believe this book should be on every leader’s bookshelf.
Scott Miller along with Todd Davis and Victoria Olsson condensed the leadership role down into 6 of the most vital strategies and tactics a leader needs to learn and emulate.
Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is divided into the following 6 principles:
- Developing a Leader’s Mindset
- Hold Regular 1 on 1’s
- Set Up Your Team to Get Results
- Create a Culture of Feedback
- Lead Your Team Through Change
- Manage Your Time and Energy
At the end of each of the chapters are helpful worksheets so you can process what you have learned and apply it to your own individual leadership situation.
I found all of the sections to be insightful. My three favorite chapters, however, were Holding Regular 1-on-1s, Setting Up Your Team to Get Results, and Managing Your Time and Energy.
I already hold what I call individual conferences but I’m afraid mine can be more like productivity checklists rather than coaching sessions.
If your team has a culture of goal setting or you need guidance for creating an atmosphere that will generate team results, then Chapter 3 is the section of the book you will read over and over again.
Additionally, a highly important but often overlooked management tool is the ability to manage time and energy. I believe leaders who are especially success-minded often lose sight of the importance of a work/life balance which results in burnout and serious health conditions.
My least favorite parts of the book were Leading Your Team Through Change and Creating a Culture of Feedback. I have been through so much change in my organization over the past 20-plus years, that the chapter wasn’t as insightful as the rest of the book. The section on Feedback was just painful to read and process.
Overall, the book is an amazing leadership tool! I would personally like to see FranklinCovey create a 6 part video training series that could be sold to organizations to train all of their front-line managers. I believe it would be an instant bestseller.
But, since a video series does not exist, I personally recommend purchasing several copies to read and discuss at a book club with co-leaders in your organization.
Start a book club or workplace library
If your organization has funds for training, allocating money for Everyone Deserves A Great Manager for your workplace book club or purchasing this book for front-line managers would be a great investment of your resources.
Or perhaps, if that is cost-prohibitive, then start an office library, purchase one or two copies of this book and others like it and make them available for managers and lead workers to check out.
As the saying goes, after all, knowledge is power.
Success comes to those who seek and utilize that knowledge and power.
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of OzIn Review
A Book Review In review,
Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is divided into six sections:
- Developing a Leader’s Mindset
- Hold Regular 1 on 1’s
- Set Up Your Team to Get Results
- Create a Culture of Feedback
- Lead Your Team Through Change
- Manage Your Time and Energy
Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the advice and knowledge leaders expect to receive when they’re promoted but often do not. Most organizations leave leaders to figure out their new roles on their own. Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides “the support, understanding, strategies, and tactics (for the new leader) to develop as a leader and turn their people into an engaged, high-performing team.”
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Chase The Lion Book and Planner
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In 2016, Mark Batterson wrote the book, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn’t Scare You, It’s Too Small.
The premise of the book is when you spot a lion, a man-eating beast, coming your way your first thought is to run, right?!
“That’s what normal people do, but not lion chasers,” says Batterson.
Rather than seeing the man-eating beast, lion chasers see an opportunity for God to show up and show His power.
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Chase the Lion contains a wake-up call for Christians to stop living as if their purpose in life is to arrive safely at death.
Our dreams should scare us”, Batterson says, “They should be so big that without God, they would be impossible to achieve!”
Chase the Lion is guaranteed to inspire you to chase those lion-sized dreams God has placed in your hearts.
According to Amazon, these are the kind of dreams that will make you a bigger person and the world a better place.
Chase the Lion is based on the story of an ancient warrior named Benaiah from 2 Samuel 23 who chased a lion into a pit on a snowy day—and then killed it.As Batterson says, “For most people, that situation wouldn’t just be a problem…it would be the last problem they ever faced.”
But for the warrior. Benaiah, it was the beginning of his destiny. After defeating the lion, he landed his dream job as King David’s bodyguard and eventually became commander-in-chief of Israel’s army under King Solomon.
This is a wake-up call for us to stop living lives of safety. We need to quit running away from what scares us and run into the pit of lions instead.
In addition to the book, Mark also created the Chase the Lion Weekly Planner. It’s the perfect companion to Chase the Lion.
CHASE THE LION WEEKLY PLANNER
The Chase the Lion Weekly Planner is a 12-month week-at-a-glance journal-type planner.
It features weekly inspirational quotes from Batterson to encourage you to face your fears, defies the odds, and hold tight to God as you pursue your dreams.
Each week the planner has spaces for goals, to-do lists, prayer requests, and big dreams.
On the left-hand side of the weekly calendar, there is a space for “Lions To Chase“-a place to list and check off daily goals.
On the same side, the weekly inspiration box is available for you to write down the scriptures you are standing on as you believe in God for your God-sized dream.
God-sized dreams are a section designed to list your big dreams and monthly or yearly goals.
On the right-hand side of the 2-page weekly spread, is the Lion Chased This Week section and The Scratch Pad. The Lions Chased section highlights what you have accomplished and the progress you have made for the week.
The Scratchpad box is for anything you need to write down from shopping lists to prayer requests.
Each end of each month’s page focuses on self-reflection. The information you write in this section can be gleaned for information that will help you create your Lion Chaser manifesto.
The Lion Chaser’s Manifesto is a statement of how you intend to transform yourself into a lion chaser. It is found toward the end of the planner.
Also at the end of the planner are pages for you to list out your top 100 Life Goals. Batterson shares his top 100 life goals that serve as an example and as an inspiration for you.
The weekly planner is designed in such a way, that if used correctly, will guide you on a journey to achieve your biggest lion-sized dreams and goals.
If you are called to achieve a higher purpose, I recommend you get your copy of the Lion Chaser Weekly Planner. Take the time weekly to list goals. Create your Lion Chaser manifesto. List your top 100 goals. Work your way through the year step by step, goal by goal.
God is waiting on the other side of your obedience to help you reach your promised land.
You can do it! Go ahead and chase that lion!
Chase the Lion Plannerhttps://amzn.to/3G6LAIb You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life!
-Mark BattersonMake this book and planner part of your self-care plan.
What are your lion-sized dreams and goals? Comment below.
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Start With Your People
If you’re ready to get unstuck, love your work, and make the dream happen, entrepreneur and business coach Brian Dixon has a message for you: Start with Your People.
After one too many burned bridges and failed projects, Brian Dixon set out to discover the secret to work you love and a life that matters. In Start with Your People, Brian shows you the single most important key to fully engaging your relationships and unlocking the door to purpose, passion, and profit.
The truth is, your dream is not a solo venture. You need your people. And your people need you. Start with Your People is your one-stop guide for maximizing the most important resource to succeed in business and in life: relationships. Enter a new kind of hustle – one that supercharges what’s possible on your path to profitable purpose.
Join Brian to discover the people-first mindset that changes everything, including:
- The #1 key to unlocking your powerful network (without being cheesy or fake)
- A 10-step method to create your own personal mission statement
- Why your family actually helps you succeed at work, and how to see your kids as a legacy instead of a liability
- The counter-intuitive method to increase your income (without quitting your job)
- Little-known secrets to converting your under-performing team to a powerful dream team
- The fastest, safest way to deal with the difficult people in your life
- Plus, you get 11 powerful mindset hacks including Brian’s life-changing morning practice
Start with Your People is the step-by-step blueprint you need to love your work and get after it. Packed with strategic principles, practical tips, and engaging stories, you’ll be able to lean into your home team as you move forward with clarity and confidence.
Tired of struggling? Ready to take action? Start here to unlock the door to purposeful profit today.