KickStart Your Edge: Play to Win Leadership

When we work with teams, the teams who have a high degree of trust perform better. Work moves faster, the results are better, and people are more engaged. There are two components of trust that will have you question, which one is more important to me?

Do you like the results you have in your life? If the answer is 'yes', say thank you to yourself. If the answer is 'no', time to get it in gear. Once we start to take 100% responsibility for the results we have, it all can fall into place. We share the 'secret' for getting what you want.

Rocky road ice-cream, a burnt crème brulee? If you had to describe last month as a dessert, what would it be? This metaphor can give you insight into what you need more of and what you need less of. 

Strength-based leadership is where ebb, flow and ease can be found. Your natural talents are the ones you should gravitate to for any situation. We got real with the SHRM NJ chapter and it's all about finding your own solutions through your strengths.

Your brain is always offering up thoughts. So. Many. Thoughts. What might change if you took 30 days and paid attention to your thoughts?  We give you the 5 questions to ask yourself so you can rewire your thinking and choose the thoughts that work for you. The Big Brain Experiment starts May 1st:  www.kickstartyouredge.com/bbe  

Imagine who you could be as a leader if you had the right amount of sleep, proper nutrition, exercised regularly, increased your novelty, and had a regular mindfulness practice. We think you'd be even MORE effective.  Connect it with Emotional Intelligence and two words come to mind: Game Changer.

What is the noise in your head that is distracting you? How are you managing attention fatigue? Zoom in and find your focus. Focus is about managing your brain and narrowing in on what's important. Check out our latest episode. The Big Brain Experiment starts May 1st: www.kickstartyouredge.com/bbe  

It's madness. Where are you the Cinderella story in your own life? So often, people rank up, classify us, seed us, and it can either have us playing to win or playing not to lose. Where have you busted your own bracket in life? When have you shocked the world?

So many things come with a manual, an instruction book, or tips. People don't. When you have manuals on how people SHOULD behave, you are giving your power away. In fact, when frustrated based on what someone else does, you will create the exact same results for yourself. Listen up and let go of the "should".  

You 100% create the experience you have in all situations. You can't control others, however, you can determine how YOU show up. Bitching, moaning and complaining about "leadership" will get you nowhere. Becoming the leader you wish you had, changes everything.

It's time to use the wisdom you already have. What if you used the advice you would give your younger self as the springboard for the advice you need now to get to the next best version of yourself? It's trippy and oh-so-effective.

What is brilliant about not knowing? EVERYTHING. A Play To Win mindset is all about becoming the person you need to become in order to actually know. Don't know what we are talking about, time for a listen .

Have you stopped being future-focused? Do you let your past define who you are, determine what you are capable of, and allow you to accept the status quo? We talk about our niece's basketball game which got us to ask the question, when do people lose their milestone mentality? Time to hop to the future to help you determine who you need to be to get there.

Mastering a Play to Win mindset requires you to think about your thoughts.  It is time to be an observer of what you think and why you are thinking it.  Start to get meta with yourself, jump into observer mode and understand who you are by looking at why you think the way you think.

When you start to blame external circumstances for how you feel, you are giving away 100% of your power. Your power comes from understanding that the way you feel is because of the way you think about the external circumstance. Plus, hear how Karen's Joe Friday "Just the Facts" reference was never true.

The Play to Win mindset is the process of learning to design your life from the future instead of the past.  What results do you want? Decide. Then 100% commit to the actions that are required for you to achieve those results. Don't waver when the going gets tough. Double down and do it anyway. Your future self will thank you.

We live in a brain filled with recycled thoughts. It is time to let go of the thinking we were taught to think and start to decide what we want our thoughts to be. We get all our beliefs, perspectives, and worldviews from internal, external, and organizational influences. What thoughts have you stuck? What thoughts do you want to stop borrowing from others? You get to decide.

Every single thing that has been created by humans has been created with a thought in someone's brain first. If you don't think on purpose, you won't create anything purposeful. A thought is a sentence. You create a sentence, and then you create the results of that sentence. Imagine what is possible even with a half-managed mind.

Since the beginning of time, our brains have been wired to seek comfort, find food, connection and keep ourselves alive. In today's work, those basics are a bit easier to come by. The next evolution of ourselves needs to be purposeful. What if you were able to be motivated by the exact opposite of comfort and safety? Game on!

Plot twist: To live a results-based life requires putting what you already have at risk for something bigger, something better, something faster, and something stronger. Are you willing to do it? You know, go all in on YOU. If you aren't happy about where you are now, or you aren't inspired by where you're headed, hint…your current strategy needs attention.

Play to Win. Game on. Design the life you want. Lead on purpose.  Results-based living. It's time to step into the next best version of you. You get to decide what you want your life to be like. Start with learning the difference between playing to win and playing not to lose. This is all about mastering your mindset. Let's go, 2023.

It is time to Master A Play to Win Mindset. As we take a pivot with our podcast, you will get the inside-out approach to KickStart Your Edge 2.0, where we focus on leading yourself so you can lead others and the business.

So often we measure our success based on comparing ourselves with others. Knock it off. Success is an inside job. You get to define it. And note to self, it isn't about the end result, it is about the experience.

Your mindset about success determines your relationship with it. What does success mean to you? How do you interact with success? How do success and achievement tie together? You get to create the relationship you want.

The more you are willing to fail, the more confidence you have.  It takes confidence to take risks.  Confidence that you can handle the failure. Confidence that you can grow and go. Confidence that you are not your outcomes.