ELEMENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
Ken Keis
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f nothing changed in your life in the next 5 years, would that be okay? I mean everything in your life—your business, health, relationships, friends, career, feelings of fulfillment, achievement, and so on. For the majority of us, it would not be.
One definition of insanity is to continue to do the same things over and over again and expect different results. If you want new results, you must change what you are doing and/or the way you are doing it. Before you can act with purpose and direction, you must understand what you need to change and how to go about it. • When you are not self-aware about your own preferences, gifts, talents, and tendencies, it’s impossible to act intentionally.
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Self-Awareness: The Key to Transformation • If you are not aware, you are living life—day after day, year after year—oblivious to your own thought patterns and beliefs. All of us have met people who are completely unaware that their behaviour and conduct are inappropriate and affecting others negatively. They have no clue they are clueless. That was proven in the research from Dr. Tasha Eurich who wrote the New York Times bestseller Insights. She said self-awareness is the meta skill for the 21st century and foundational to our success. In her research, 95 per cent of individuals believed they were self-aware, but when further study was conducted, the actual number of individuals who actually were, was only 10 per cent!!! That means over 85 per cent of people don’t know that they don’t know! BC Notaries Association
A frequent traveller, I spot unawareness on every one of my trips. • People who stop at the bottom of an UP escalator, staring into space, with no idea they are holding up the line of fellow travellers forming behind them. • People who let their carry-on bags hit each seated person in the head as they make their way down the aisle. In his book, Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-Defeating Thinking Habits, Wayne Dyer said it well. "The reason why awareness of awareness is so powerful is that it immediately puts me in touch with a dimension of myself that knows that here in awareness, all things are possible." Wayne went on to quote a Harvard Study that tracked 84 female room-attendants who were working in different hotels. Volume 31, Number 1, Spring /Summer 2022
