Controlling Your Controllables

I have an important question for you this month. Are you a leader?

It’s a bit of a trick question because so long as you’re breathing there can only be one answer. And it is a resounding YES! Long before you stepped into your Network Marketing business you were the CEO of your own life! Because, what IS leadership?

You ARE a leader because leadership is simply making decisions and acting upon them!

How do you show up each day? That’s leadership! How do you deal with challenges, change, uncertainty, and even prosperity? That’s a big part of your leadership. Perhaps most important of all, what kind of impact do you have on those around you? Do you lift them up? Do you tear them down? Do you neutralize them?

So, clearly, you are already a leader. But, today, I encourage you to see yourself with fresh eyes, as a new kind of leader…a future-ready leader…a BREAKTHROUGH LEADER!

Make no mistake, as a Network Marketer, you’re in the BREAKTHROUGH business!

Every month, this column is aimed at one powerful vision…to help you see yourself as a Breakthrough Leader! And, it is an unstoppable truth, that when you change the way you see yourself, the self you see will CHANGE!

I have been working on this model called Breakthrough Leadership for over 40 years through three truly fulfilling careers...

In my first career, I was a United States Swimming coach, working with young people to realize their potential. Then, after going back to school to earn my MBA, I stepped into my second career as a business professional, eventually becoming the vice president, first of a major transportation company, and then the VP of a top training company. And now, for over thirty years I’ve been passionate about my third career as a professional speaker and author. Through those years, the simple, but extraordinary essence of Breakthrough Leadership has become crystal clear.

Breakthrough Leadership is about CONTROLLING YOUR CONTROLLABLES!

Have you ever noticed that when you are focusing on your controllables you feel confident, energized, and with an undeniable sense that you’re building momentum? It’s when we focus on what we don’t control that we feel lost, doubtful, and frustrated.

So, what are the foundational controllables, the essential keys to focus upon to develop as Breakthrough Leaders?

There are three:

> SHAPE your future!

> ENERGIZE and ENGAGE your team!

> BUILD people, teams, and relationships!

As you focus on these three controllables, as you determinedly work on them every day, taking them to the gym even when you feel like sitting on the couch and eating chocolate, you will begin to generate BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS!

Breakthrough results are doing things you didn’t think possible when you started out.

If you read my April column, breakthrough results ignite your “Allison Factor” inspiring you to shine as never before! The Breakthrough Results you create will help you see who you really are!

When you master these three controllables, your business will thrive, your relationships will shine, your health will flourish, and your life will soar! You will become easy to impress and hard to offend! As my mentor and friend, the great coach John Wooden often said, you will make every day your masterpiece!

Every single month in this column we will open new possibilities in your life and business by diving deeply into the three controllables. They are at the heart of every breakthrough…from fear to freedom, from failure to faith, from ego to ‘we go’, and from good to great! As we journey through the three controllables, remember to enjoy every precious moment!

All breakthroughs start the same way… with VISION! You must SEE it before you can BE it! So...

I’ll see you next month as we begin to master the secrets of SHAPING YOUR FUTURE!