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      "body": "I’m not talking about Marvin Gaye here, I’m talking about healing deep rooted sexual trauma.\n\nThere is a horrifying statistic that exists out there. A woman is more likely to be sexually assaulted than not in this day and age.\n\nA study showed 2 out of 3 college age males admit if they thought they could get away with it they would rape a woman.\n\nHouston we have a major fuckin’ problem here.\n\nHow do we fix such a horrifying reality?\n\nFor survivors of sexual trauma it is often that the nature of the event becomes a sexual imprint for the type of sex that is preferred as if to somehow take the power back by making it wanted. It’s the only way the mind can rationalize the body reacting and orgasming though the sex was unwanted. This can happen to men as well as women and has scarred too many people.\n\nThe best way for these people to find the pleasure in sex without the the nightmare attached is through sexual surrogacy. 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      "body": "It's only because of the history of programming that any of that would be relevant and if you every bit of your response proves me right in what I had to say so thank you.",
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      "body": "nope, i agree, words don't hurt people. in fact see here :\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/study-swearing-is-healthy-2014-5\nswearing is actually good for you. it lowers anxiety.\nthere is also Stella Grizont, she has a masters in applied positive psychology from U Penn. and uses an ice cream truck that people get inside and scream their head off for corporate team building exercises. see here :\nhttps://www.bulletproofexec.com/91-hacking-happiness-with-stella-grizont-podcast/",
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      "body": "Fuck\nIf seeing that word bothers you it is due to you being mentally ill. Here’s why.\n\nIn psychological terms you have become delusional and inflict harm on yourself and others due to a delusion based on brainwashing or programming or propaganda or marketing. They are all ways to describe manipulating people to do what you want.\n\nIf fuck bothers you, every reason you give for why is invalid. Here’s why.\n\nIt never bothered you until someone told you it should.\n\nIf millions of people believe the same lie, it’s still a lie and their stupid for thinking numbers make them right.\n\nLanguage is our thoughts expressed, it’s how we attempt to define ourselves and set ourselves apart as individuals or as part of a social gathering of living situation.\n\nIf you ever want to have control over people the first thing you do is change their language. It is crucial to control and limit how they express themselves to create a standard to judge people as being deserving of belonging or judged as unworthy and cast aside. If people don’t comply with your language demands they are punished until they do comply. The punishment is often exclusion with the emotional intent of devaluing them as human beings due to noncompliance with your structure of controlling a mass of people.\n\nIn simplest terms we use language to say do it our way or else. You will bow to the authority we have given ourselves to tell you how to think and what to think we will fuck your world up if you don’t.\n\nI have no problem with hearing a child say fuck as there is nothing obscene about the word unless you want to use it to judge people and see them as inferior so you can feel superior to them. I said fuck as a child not to be obscene, I said it because it fit. Even as a child it made no sense that there were words we weren’t supposed to say, yet most used them anyway.\n\nI was chastised by a CEO on Linkedin for my use of Fuck. What makes her a fucking hypocrite was as she attempted to admonish me she made the mistake of saying fuck to me and admitting her use of it on a regular basis in different settings. If it’s not OK everywhere it’s not OK. If its OK anywhere it’s OK everywhere. If you don’t speak up they won’t know who I’m talking about.\n\nWhat does it take to convince the masses a word is obscene?\n\nTell them the word is bad.\nCreate a system of punishment for using the word.\nBe consistent in repeating your message and your punishment of violators.\nUse an emotional punishment that will encourage them to comply.\nMake those who don’t comply seen as inferior.\nUse religion and government and the education system to spread the message.\nUse forms of entertainment to reinforce the idea.\nRepeat with consistency over time to achieve systematic societal change creating inferior and superior based on language.\n Fuck over any and everyone to set examples publicly to show why the masses should comply.\nRepeat cycle and never give up the lie. The lie being that your not trying to control the masses.\nThis is the magical 10 steps to brainwashing a populace.\n\nAnyone think I am wrong?\n\nIf you do, please speak up and let’s fuckin’ talk it out.",
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      "body": "<p>I am not trying to sell myself, I am being myself. </p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>There is no cookie cutter approach to doing that right. </p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>The greatest thing any of has to sell is who we are and our personal stories. There is no cookie cutter to telling your own tale. There are no key words or buzz words or trigger words that are who you are and are the stories of your life. Your history tells them why they should be listening to you now when the question comes up. It’s why we have resumes.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>I have been blogging since MySpace first introduced the feature back in 2006 or 2007. People connect to a personal story. People are tricked into thinking you are being personal by using key words like “tips or tricks to be successful” and it the worst kind of emotional abuse there is.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>These tips and guides are teaching you to exclude and how to exclude and they are making up reasons as to why you should exclude and programming you to think their way so they can make a living off of your ignorance.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>Sad but true.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>A great song by Metallica that when a friend tagged me on it when she posed the video on Linkedin, I didn’t realize that was my Rock God message for the tone of my day and the message I had to share with the world in the interest of soul healing.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>Then I had a phone conversation with someone who does what I do. One of things that came up was me admitting that all emotional healing is self healing and that as a healer I simply guide and direct you in how to heal yourself. If you never follow the guidance the change your view and make the changes in your expression of self the pain comes back and I am just removing it for a while to give you the chance to figure your shit out.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>It’s all most Reiki practitioners do. Temporary relief until you fix yourself and if they never tell you that they can keep you coming back and you become the junkie to their drug dealer.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>Sad but true.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>Part of what I do is drop the veil and hurt you with the truth that has you looking at your life with new eyes that has you judging yourself.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>Of course no one wants to go through that even though they need it to actually heal.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>If you never judge you, then you never forgive you and you will go on punishing you when it is not needed. Simply make better choices to avoid life’s punishing lessons of what not to do. Facing that mirror of truth is not something you go looking for and often will try to run away from when it shows up in your life.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>Sad but true.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>What writing and tip guides for social networking platforms do is kill creativity and kill the individual expression as much as they think they are giving it form to grow. Individual expression has no form except that which feels like an honest expression of self. No rules and the only tip is to figure out on your own who you are and then express it your way and if they can’t hang let them miss out on the work of art you are.</p>\n<p><br /></p>\n<p>Sad but true.</p>",
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      "body": "<p>There is a profound difference between having a title that makes you the boss and being a leader who just happens to have a title. People will tolerate the former and want to follow the latter eagerly.</p>\n<p>The last place anyone should ever find out about a bad year is at the end. I recommend monthly one on one meeting specifically for performance and career review. There should be an agenda for this meeting that gets forwarded to your direct reports. The agenda should include a section for your direct reports concerns so you can prepare for them and not be caught off guard face to face. </p>\n<p>If they see you crack, they know they have you and it takes time to build their confidence in you again.</p>\n<p>These meetings are also your opportunity to check in on longstanding personal issues you may know they are dealing with. It gives you the privacy to let them talk. 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Even then I keep my professional mask on. </p>\n<p>Never allow yourself to put into a position where they even feel the need to question your character. Once they start, they will never stop questioning it. In that same year, I had another direct report being overheard saying she was going to have my job. </p>\n<p>When given the choice, I kept her. A year later she was singing my praises to my boss. It can be done, but notice I said “a year later” I forgot to mention all the hard work it took to repair that relationship. When I left the company, that woman was one of my star performers and we left on good terms. </p>\n<p>Here is the point. If you screw up, own it and fix it, no matter what it takes. It just could create a better leader in you and a new leader to replace you if you leave. </p>\n<p>Team meetings can be what makes or breaks their perception of you as a leader. </p>\n<p>Is there an agenda?</p>\n<p>Did they get that agenda the day of the meeting or a couple days before?</p>\n<p>Have you rehearsed your delivery? </p>\n<p>This is your chance to shine in front of them and continue to earn their respect. Every team I ever managed had one rebellious soul. This person is also what I like to call the “Mob Boss.”</p>\n<p>Let me put it this way, is there one person that you know will be the first to stir the pot and raise as much descent as possible?</p>\n<p>Here is how you beat them. Tailor your delivery to them. Prepare everything to answer the questions you know you don’t want to hear. Be prepared to not even blink and have the answer that will make the Mob Boss shut up and listen. </p>\n<p>When the rest of them see you have their unofficial leader eating out of your hands, you win. They now have more respect for you and are now listening to you and not just waiting to see what the Mob Boss is going to say. I know it seems like a lot of work, but to be a leader takes a lot of work. </p>\n<p>Also, think of it this way, by the time you implement everything in this guide and have it running for six weeks, I guarantee you will not be working half as hard as you are now to keep up and you will be leading the way. If it helps, remember I do this kind of thing for a living and I like to live well. </p>\n<p>That brings up another good point. Do not be afraid to let them know what your qualifications are, but do not flaunt it. 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I was trained to be an Electronics Communications Technician. I was trained to be a leader at the same time. To give you an idea of my character, let us go back to basic training. </p>\n<p>I had been hospitalized for strep throat and had to be moved to a new group of guys due to being in the hospital for too long. Well long story short, my mom got worried and was calling the base. My TI’s pulled me in the office and told me to go call her. My response.</p>\n<p>“Sargent Anonymous, are the rest of the guys going down too?”</p>\n<p>“No.”</p>\n<p>“Then why should I get to go?”</p>\n<p>That was the first time I showed what a leader is by simply being a leader. I saw no reason for any special privilege and they ended up making me go call my mom. </p>\n<p>When I was stationed in Oklahoma, I was the technical order supervisor and the office files clerk. I was also the lead trainer as I was two levels ahead of my rank in completed training tasks.</p>\n<p>When they sent a team to judge us on how we did our jobs, my four man crew was recognized as the outstanding performers out of over a thousand. My shop, was the outstanding work center out of five squadrons. My flight was the outstanding flight. My squadron was the outstanding squadron and these are the people I learned from and with.</p>\n<p>The team that judged us, told us they had to rewrite the criteria because we blew it out of the water. We rewrote sections of technical manuals that changed the way our business got done.</p>\n<p>We made the Air Force change the way our business got done by our performance and tireless dedication to being the best at what we did.</p>\n<p>When I worked at my first call center I was in trouble for something there was no training for or no documentation for. I responded by creating a training manual and the first Standard Operating Procedures the company had seen. I later went on to rewrite three sales scripts with client approval that boosted sales eighty-percent.</p>\n<p>I modeled a redesign of a customer service call center operating model and took the worst performing team in the office with the lowest morale and turned them around with sustained performance. I helped to create a behavioral interview guide. I designed a reward and recognition program. I am leaving out a ton of stuff. Also realize there were many seventy-plus hour weeks during those years as I was developing this.</p>\n<p>The point is this, I know my shit because I have worked it and seen it work. </p>\n<p>It is my experience that gives me the confidence to speak very directly with you on this topic. 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      "body": "<p>I have two stories I want to share with you that will become tools you can use with your direct reports and in many other areas of your life as well. We deal with human beings with human issues and sometimes a simple story can help put them at ease. When one of your direct reports is having a bad day or a rough time in life, try this one. </p>\n<blockquote><em>A king one called his wise men to him and asked “Wise men, I want you to give me something that will make me happy when I am sad and make me sad when I am happy.” </em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>“King, why would want such a thing?”</em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>“Well, as king I can never allow myself to be too happy or too sad in front of the people. I want something that will help remind me that my people may not be as happy or as sad as I am.”</em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>“We shall do our best sire.” The wise men went away and came back some weeks later. </em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>“Oh good King we have done as you have asked and brought you something that will make you happy when you are sad and make you sad when you are happy.” They handed the king a ring.</em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>“What is this, how will this ring make me happy when I am sad and sad when I am happy?”</em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>“Look at the inscription sire.”</em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>It read this. “This too shall pass.”</em></blockquote>\n<p>Life is a series of ups and downs and no matter how down it seems right now, this too shall pass. </p>\n<p>You would be surprised how effective a good story can be at the right time. Use your personal history and don’t be afraid to tell your story to help your people have a better day. This next story is to illustrate what leadership can really be.</p>\n<blockquote><em>The term landlord comes from the term Lord of the Land and the Lord cared for the people who cared for the land and saw to their needs. The Lord of the Lords or the King cared for the Lords as he cared for the people. Most people don’t realize that the true king never sits on a thrown nor does he where a crown. </em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>He is wandering his kingdom and finding those who have a need he can fulfill. As he helps these people, he gets to know them and he gets to see how it is they came to have this need. The king is a wise man and as he gets the full story he can see if these people live by the king’s law. If the king found these to be good people, then something wonderful would happen after he left. If these people were in foul of the king’s law, something horrible would happen after he left. Either way no one ever really knew who the king was and that was his power. </em></blockquote>\n<blockquote><em>If you knew you were in the presence of the king you would put your best foot forward and make sure you were doing everything right, but that is not a fair look for the king.</em> </blockquote>\n<p>There are two points to this story. The first is to always be doing what you know you should, because you never know who is walking by and second, the king’s subjects do not serve the king, the king serves his subjects. </p>\n<p>Listening to your people is your greatest tool. They are on the front the lines doing the dirty work, so why not ask their opinion and make adjustments based on those opinions. Let’s face it, no one likes being told how to do their job by someone who has not or cannot do the job they do.</p>\n<p>In my side work as a consultant and life coach it is essential that I listen to my clients and hear the needs they are telling me and see the needs they are showing me. Convincing people of the needs you see, but they do not is what being a true leader is all about. </p>\n<p>It can take time to lead someone to the needs they do not see, but in your job you have the tools to help show them the right path to the best performance. If you do not have performance and career action plans for each of your direct reports, start writing because you are failing as a leader already.</p>\n<p>Hard truth and I’m not here to wipe your nose, I’m here to make a leader out of you if you can do the work.</p>\n<p><br /></p>",
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      "body": "<p>Do you enjoy working sixty to seventy-plus hours a week?</p>\n<p>I hated it.</p>\n<p>It will cause you to burn out and have your performance slip. You need to take care of you. What does that look like for the modern leader?</p>\n<p>I am glad you asked.</p>\n<p>It starts with getting plenty of sleep. Then eat breakfast. Then monitor your energy level at six points throughout the day. Do you feel more energetic or less energetic?</p>\n<p>Remember simplicity is the key. </p>\n<p>Keep this log for three weeks. Do it every day, no exceptions and no excuses. </p>\n<p>Once you know your energy pattern, schedule your energy draining tasks around your energy levels. I am better in the morning, so I schedule my heavy stuff in the morning. If you are scheduling your tasks around your energy levels, you will see yourself getting more done and being shocked at how much extra time you have. </p>\n<p>This also requires a couple of other little tricks that you will need in order to get things done during those high energy times.  </p>\n<p>1. Let it go to voicemail unless you need to answer it. </p>\n<p>If your kids school calls, you need to go. If Bob/Laura from “that” department wants to shoot the breeze, let them blow it into your inbox. </p>\n<p>2. Set times of the day to respond to and file email. </p>\n<p>It will build up and you need to deal with it, but if you make it a routine part of your day, you will spend less time dealing with it and more time doing something with or about it. </p>\n<p>3. Let someone else be the hero sometime. </p>\n<p>The Super-friends did not use every hero in every episode. Now I am sure I just lost most of you so have fun Googling that reference. The point is that you do not have to always be the one to save the day and that’s what being a part of a team is about. Every good leader knows it is good to let others shine. </p>\n<p>4. Lack of preparation on your part is not an emergency on my part. </p>\n<p>Do not let someone else’s lack of organization interfere with yours. If you are not taking care of what you need to in order to be more efficient, than don’t whine about it. No one wants to hear it and you will look like a spineless wanna be leader. I really just used wanna be. </p>\n<p>5. Bring the noise.</p>\n<p>Just make sure it is the right kind of noise. I would suggest music that helps you focus. Find stuff that blocks out the background noise and helps you think. </p>\n<p>6. I am not here, even if you can see me. </p>\n<p>It helps to clearly define to your direct reports the times when you are to be left alone unless it appears on this list and then give them a list. This gives you the time you need to do what you need to do. </p>\n<p>7. Take a break</p>\n<p>You are not a superhero no matter how many powers you have in your daydreams. You need to take a break and have a snack. Feeding your body feeds your mind. This is also a good time to stretch and get the blood moving. Take a short walk around the building. </p>\n<p>8. Some things really do have to wait until tomorrow.</p>\n<p>I am sorry but not everything is an emergency. Learning to prioritize better is essential. Learning to say “No.” is an even bigger time maker. </p>\n<p>9. Say “I am sorry” and move on.</p>\n<p>In other words take responsibility with your direct reports because they are holding you responsible whether you like it or not. It will save you time to just own up to it and work with them for solutions rather than trying to convince them it’s somebody else’s fault. </p>\n<p>10. You have vacation time, use it. </p>\n<p>Taking at least ten days off every six months or so is exactly what I would order for you to recharge and be ready for the onslaught that is being a modern leader. </p>\n<p><br /></p>",
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When I was done I had fifteen pages or so of quotes I used to help direct my thought process towards being a better leader. I narrowed the list down to ten and then printed it out and laminated it. I hung it right where I would see it and so would everyone else. I then asked my direct reports to do the same. They made their lists, I got them laminated and while we each had a different set of quotes, we were taking the same actions together. Mine is still somewhere I can see it every day and I often use it when working with clients.</p>\n<p>Who knows how to motivate you better than you?</p>\n<p>Remember simplicity is your friend. If you take a more simplistic approach in your thoughts it allows you to have more variety in your actions. Those actions are what will inspire the thoughts in your direct reports and motivate them to perform for you. It will also show them you care and will gain some trust and respect that will be evident in their loyalty. </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><br /></p>",
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      "body": "<p>The greatest tool you have is communication and understanding what communication really is. </p>\n<p>We communicate through everything we do and say and everything we do not do and do not say. </p>\n<p>Take a minute to really think about that statement with the idea of leading by example and thinking about what you say to your direct reports when you are speaking. Think about how they perceive you when you think they do not see or hear you talking to your peers. </p>\n<p>Your people listen in on your conversations a lot more than you listen in on theirs. Think about that the next time you are in the hallway. </p>\n<p>I used to joke about it with my peers, but it’s true, anytime you put a large number of people in one place, it turns into high school and I feel like I am a principal/teacher most days and the school counselor on others.</p>\n<p>Then I became a parent realized I had been more like a father. 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Tailor your message to their understanding, to their thought process which begins with the way they speak. </p>\n<p>When you talk to them listen not just to what they are saying but how they say it. Take the time to notice everything.</p>\n<p>Later, when still trying to figure out what to do, this will give you more to work with. Think about all the past experiences with this individual. Make sure you see the person not only a direct report. </p>\n<p>Most of the time direct reports feel like the numbers they produce, a black and white result. </p>\n<p>If you want them to care more about that result, you need to put some care into the work that produces that result. </p>\n<p>You show your care by tailoring and personalizing your message. You show you care by saying what you mean and meaning what you say and backing it up one-hundred percent no excuses. It falls upon you to teach them to communicate better by being the example they have to follow. </p>\n<p>I use the word “you” a lot and the reason for that is this. If you or I want to be a leader, you and I have to realize that starts with you and I so that we can lead them. Sometimes the team needs an I to lead the way. </p>\n<p>Leaders don’t always have titles and they are rarely hired. True leaders are created by their own actions. If you want to lead them, it falls upon you to create a leader they want to follow. This is where motivation begins and ends. </p>\n<p>If you want to learn to communicate better, I would suggest an organization such as Toast Masters International. While I was working for a Fortune one-hundred company, the director got the company to pay for a club on site. The club was open to all levels of employees and sharpened my skills quite a bit. </p>\n<p>There are other tools out there as well for building a common language. The best way to do this is to create it within your organization so that it is tailored to what you do and the culture you are creating. </p>\n<p>There it is, that buzz word we have all been waiting for “Culture.”</p>\n<p>There is a reason everyone talks about it, the culture you provide is a part of motivating your people to want to be there and want to perform. When looking at your culture, look at all the pieces and the big picture. This takes time and its time well invested. </p>\n<p>How often is anyone late to work?</p>\n<p>Is it acceptable for anyone to be late to work?</p>\n<p>Do you complain about not wanting to be there?</p>\n<p>Does your attitude say I am happy to be here?</p>\n<p>Were you late this morning?</p>\n<p>How often are you late?</p>\n<p>What rules do you bend?</p>\n<p>Who knows about it?</p>\n<p>Get the point?</p>\n<p>This falls back to leading by example. Your motivation level towards your job reflects outwardly more than you think. If you are not projecting a motivated leader, why should they follow you or be happy to be around you?</p>\n<p>Inspiration on the other hand, takes a more creative approach. </p>\n<p>What inspires you to be at work?</p>\n<p>What inspires you to be a better leader?</p>\n<p>Who inspires you to keep showing up?</p>\n<p>Who are you trying to inspire with your words and your actions?</p>\n<p>How do you know it will work?</p>\n<p>If you do not take the time to get to know what inspires your direct reports, how can you hope to inspire them to follow you?</p>\n<p>The next time you have a one on one, pull out a career action plan and talk about where they want to be. Ask them why. Ask them why more often to a lot of the things they say. Their answers will tell you what inspires them to be better. 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      "body": "<p>Here is an extract from a Nelson Mandela speech, written by Marianne Williamson:</p>\n<p>“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?</p>\n<p>You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. 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The Captain called out “Cabin boy, bring me my red shirt!”</p>\n<p> The Captain put on his red shirt and the pirates were victorious. As they sailed on they found themselves being approached by two British warships. The Captain again called out “Cabin boy, bring me my red shirt!”</p>\n<p> Again the pirates were victorious.</p>\n<p> After the battle the cabin boy asked, the Captain, “Sir! Why is it you asked me to bring you your red shirt before battle?”</p>\n<p> “It’s simple.” The captain replied, “I wear the red shirt so that if I am injured in battle. The men will not know, and they will continue to fight on for the ship, and for themselves.” The cabin boy thought for a moment. </p>\n<p>“I see Captain. You care more for the men than yourself, and would rather die than have them try to save you and be lost themselves.” </p>\n<p>“Exactly.” The Captain replied. 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Do not look at the question, “Why?” as a question of your authority, but a recognition of it and an opportunity elevate their understanding and give them the opportunity to have a more active versus passive role. It gives the opportunity to educate them on the ownership of their job and their function. Helping your people understand the “whys” will often make inspiring them and motivating them into action much easier.</p>\n<p>Think about yourself for a moment, do you not have an easier time getting into a project when you understand why you are doing it? </p>\n<p>You are reading this book because you had an interest in being a leader, or you are a leader and you want to be better. You asked the question, “How can I be a better leader?” the moment you started reading this book. I wrote it, to answer that question. </p>\n<p>I also have a few questions of my own.</p>\n<p>“What do your one on one sessions look like with your people?”</p>\n<p>“What does your daily interaction with your people look like?”</p>\n<p>“How do you perceive these interactions?”</p>\n<p>“How do they perceive these interactions?”</p>\n<p>“How do you know?”</p>\n<p>Every interaction is an opportunity to educate, motivate and inspire your people to perform at a high level and increase their loyalty to the company and to you. It is your leadership they follow, not company policies and it is you they are looking to show them how it is done. Here is what that can look like: </p>\n<p>Every day you see these people when they come in. Do you say good morning?</p>\n<p>Do you smile? Do you know anything about their lives to ask them about?</p>\n<p>When I worked for a large inbound call center in Oklahoma City, we greeted each customer service representative with “Hi, thanks for coming today, I am happy to see you.”</p>\n<p>I even watched a pizza place do the same thing. I used to go this pizza place in Oklahoma City called Cici’s. Anytime a customer walked in, the whole crew greeted them. </p>\n<p>“Hi, welcome to Cici’s, thanks for coming in!”</p>\n<p>When was the last time your boss told you they were happy to see you just because you came to work?  </p>\n<p>How do you think it would make you feel if they did?</p>\n<p>The point is this. Each of us is looking for some positive acknowledgement of our existence. We spend a lot of that time at work. 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