Steve Introduces the Master Strategies of Super Achievers Course and introduces how to take this course and how to work with the included course resources.
What is a mentor and what is a lecturer? This is a mentoring program! Steve introduces the Vision Mapping Journal, and the workbooks. He also gives 4 reasons why these Master Strategies make a difference and gives examples of how these strategies worked in his life.
Steven tells about another Steven who achieved impossible dreams and contrasts what his life was like before he learned about the Master Strategies of Super Achievers.
Steve introduces the Laws of Extraordinary Success and introduces us to the first and second laws:
The 1st Law of Extraordinary Success
People who achieve ordinary outcomes do so by using conventional approaches and methods taught in schools and used by the masses. People who achieve extraordinary to near impossible outcomes do so by using a different set of Master Strategies that are universally and consistently used by Super Achievers. These are virtually unknown to the masses.
2nd Law of Extraordinary Success
Super Achievers learn these Master Strategies from mentors (the fast way) or through the agonizing process of trial and error (the slow way).
People approach life from four different perspectives.
DRIFTERS:
-Go with the flow
-Only exert enough Effort to stay afloat
PURSUERS:
-Want to set Their Own Course
-Achieve some dreams but Fail to achieve most
-Lack Knowledge, Resources, Strategies and Critical Skills Needed to Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes
ACHIEVERS:
-Set Their Own Course
-Power Their Way to Destinations
-Set Significant Goals and Achieve Significant Outcomes
-But Rarely Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes
SUPER ACHIEVERS:
-Use Strategies and Skills to Pursue and Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes
-Consistently Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes By Using Master Strategies For Super Achievement
These skills are learnable and it is possible to move between these approaches, but you have to be intentional and use the right set of strategies.
How do you rate yourself?
How do you pursue your dreams?
Do you walk to your dreams, or do you drive to your dreams in a really fast car? Here's how the four different perspectives do it:
DRIFTERS:
-Walk through life in Dress Shoes
PURSUERS:
-Sprint toward their dreams in Running Shoes.
ACHIEVERS:
-Run marathons in running shoes.
SUPER ACHIEVERS:
-Put on nice socks, and Drive toward their dreams at 150 miles per hour!
Steve gives more instructions on how to approach the workbook exercises.
15 Master Strategies that have been used by the world's most successful people to achieve their impossible dreams.
Master Strategy 1 Play Smart
Play to your strengths, strengthen your weaknesses, and prepare to partner.
- Who you are?
- Why some people are great to work with, while others make you crazy?
- Why some jobs you love and others you hate?
- How it is possible to work with difficult people?
<Use your workbook to take the test, then score the test, based on your responses.>
PLEASE NOTE: One of our very own students has provided the 5-Minute Personality test as a self-calculating Excel worksheet. It is included as a downloadable resource below. It is backwards compatible with Excel 98 on Mac and Excel 97 for Windows. Thank you, Paul Turk!
Now that you taken the Personality Test and scored your results let us begin learning why knowing your personality type or the personality types of people you work and live with means.
What is personality?
The four letters (L,O,G,B) at the top of each section represents four basic personality types.
Personality types reveal our natural inclinations, strengths and weaknesses. They determine how we naturally respond to human interaction and most work or life situations. The higher your score in any column, the stronger you possess that particular personality trait. Each of the four traits carry with them are to have the strengths and weaknesses of that personality type. There is no right and wrong here but rather a continuum. The higher your score the more naturally you act in ways specific to that personality type.
Dr. Gary Smalley, one of the country's best known authors and speakers on family relationships, likens the four personality types to animals because it makes personality easier to remember. I agree with Gary. The animal representations are more effective than numbers, letters, colors or technical terms that you might have seen before.
Let's look at the first Personality Type.
L = Lions
Lions are leaders. They are usually the bosses at work . . . and if not the actual boss they at least think they are the boss! Lions are decisive, bottom line folks who are observers rather than watchers or listeners. Lions love to solve problems. They are usually individualists who seek new adventures and opportunities.
Consider the Natural Strengths of the Lion Personality. If the highest score in your Personality Test is L then these behaviors are very natural to you. You are drawn to these actions. No one has to motivate you to act in these ways. You are happiest when they just get out of your way.
Natural StrengthsNatural Weaknesses
Decisive
Goal Oriented
Achievement Driven
Gets Results
Independent
Risk Taker
Takes Charge
Takes Initiative
Self Starter
Persistent and Efficient
Driven to Complete Projects
Competitive
Enjoys Challenges, Variety and Change
Impatient
Blunt
Poor Listener
Impulsive
Demanding
May View Projects More Important than People
Can Be Insensitive to the Feelings of Others
May Run Over Others who are slower to act or speak
Fears Inactivity, Relaxation
Quickly Bored by Routine or Mechanics
The Lion naturally responds to work and personal situations in the following ways
Basic disposition: Fast paced, task oriented.
Motivated by: Results, challenge, action, power, and credit for achievement.
Time management: Lions focus on NOW instead of distant future. They get a lot more done in a lot less time than their peers, hate wasting time and like to get right to the point.
Communication style: Great at initiating communication; not good at listening (one way
communicator.)
Decision making: Impulsive. Makes quick decisions with goal or end result in mind. Results focused, needs very few facts to make a decision.
In pressure or tense situations: The Lion takes command and becomes autocratic.
Greatest needs: The Lion needs to see results, experience variety, and face new challenges. He or she needs to solve problems and wants direct answers.
What the Lion desires: Freedom, authority, variety, difficult assignments and opportunity for
advancement.
The Lion personality is often an entrepreneur.
Lions are risk takers and can easily disregard procedure or process when he perceives any process to be slowing his ability to get results.
A Lion hired to a position in a company with little or no autonomy will soon leave that company and search for a job that allows that freedom and autonomy.
The Lion is motivated by a challenge to create results. Tell the Lion to sell 25 items and he can take the rest of the day off and he will be golfing by noon.
B = Beaver
Beavers have a strong need to do things right and by the book. In fact, they are the kind of people who actually read instruction manuals. They are great at providing quality control in offices, business and organizations that demand accuracy like accounting, Human Relations, and engineering. Beaver personalities excel in environments where rules, consistency and high standards are important. Make a Beavers work with someone who does not share those same characteristics and they will be frustrated and unproductive. The strong need for maintaining high, and oftentimes unrealistic standards can short circuit their ability to express warmth in a relationship.
Natural StrengthsNatural Weaknesses AccurateAnalytical
Detail Oriented
Thoroughness
Industrious
Orderly
Methodical and Exhaustive
High Standards
Intuitive
Controlled Too Hard on Self
Too Critical of Others
Perfectionist
Overly Cautious
Will Not Make Decision Without All the Facts
Too Picky
Overly Sensitive
Basic disposition: Slow paced, task oriented.
Motivated by: The desire to be right and maintain quality.
Time management: Beavers tend to work slowly and love accuracy.
Communication style: Beavers are good listeners, communicate details, and are usually diplomatic.
Decision making: Avoids making decisions; needs lots of information before they ever make a decision.
In pressure or tense situations: The Beaver tries to avoid pressure or tense situations. They can ignore deadlines.
Greatest needs: The Beaver needs security, gradual change and time to adjust to it.
What the Beaver desires: Clearly defined tasks, stability, security, low-risk, and tasks that require precision and planning.
O = Otters
Otters are excitable, fun seeking, cheerleader types who love to talk! They are great at motivating others and will absolutely suffer in an environment where they cannot talk or have a say in major decisions of the company or relationship.
The Otter's out going nature makes them great networkers.
Otters usually know a lot of people who know a lot of people who really like the Otter. They can be very loving and encouraging unless under pressure. Pressure brings out an attacking response that is empowered by their practiced verbal skills. Otters have a strong desire to be liked and enjoy being the center of attention. They are often very attentive to style, clothes and flash. Otters are the life of any party and most people enjoy being around them.
Consider these Natural Strengths of the Otter. It takes very little encouragement to draw these personality traits out of the Otter. In fact, it is hard not to see these behaviors exhibited often and with great skill. No one has to motivate the Otter to be enthusiastic and outgoing, but a manager who stifles any of these natural strengths will take the wind out of the Otter's sales and desire to perform for the company.
Natural StrengthsNatural WeaknessesEnthusiastic
Optimistic
Good communicator
Emotional and passionate
Motivational and inspirational
Outgoing
Personal
Dramatic
Fun Loving Unrealistic
Not Detail Oriented
Disorganized
Impulsive
Listens to Feelings above Logic
Reactive
Can be too Talkative
Excitable Basic disposition: Fast paced, People oriented.
Motivated by: Recognition and approval of others.
Time management: Otters focus on the future and have a tendency to rush to the next exciting
thing.
Communication style: Enthusiastic and stimulating, often one-way; but can inspire and
motivate others.
Decision making: Intuitive and fast. Makes lots of right calls and lots of wrong ones.
In pressure or tense situations: The Otter attacks! Otters are more concerned about their popularity than achieving tangible results.
Greatest Needs: The Otter needs social activities and recognition; activities that are fun, and freedom from details.
What the Otter desires: Prestige, friendly relationships, opportunity to help and motivate others, and opportunities to verbally share their ideas
G = Golden Retriever
One word describes the personality of the Golden Retriever and that word is LOYAL, so loyal, in fact, they can absorb enormous amounts of emotional pain and punishment in a relationship while remaining committed to that relationship.
Golden Retrievers are great listeners, incredibly empathetic and warm encouragers. There is a danger for these personality types in that they tend to be such pleasers they can have great difficulty being assertive in a situation or relationship when it is needed.
Natural StrengthsNatural Weaknesses PatientEasy Going
Team Player
Stable
Empathetic
Compassionate
Sensitive to Feelings of Others
Tremendously Loyal
Puts People Above Projects
Dependable
Reliable
Supportive
Agreeable Indecisive
Over Accommodating
May Sacrifice Results for the Sake of Harmony
Slow to Initiate
Avoids Confrontation Even When Needed
Tends to Hold Grudges and Remember Hurts
Fears Change
Basic disposition: Slow paced, people oriented.
Motivated by: Desire for good relationships and appreciation of others.
Time management: Golden Retrievers focus on the present and devotes lots of time to helping others and building relationships.
Communication style: Two-way communicator; great listener and provides empathetic response.
Decision making: Makes decisions more slowly, wants input of others, and often yields to that input.
In pressure or tense situations: The Golden Retriever gives in to the opinions, ideas and wishes of others. Often too tolerant.
Greatest needs: The Golden Retriever needs security, gradual change and time to adjust to it; an environment free of conflict.
What the Golden Retriever desires: Quality relationships, security, consistent known environment, and freedom to work at own pace.
How Do I Use the Information of My Personality Test?
Now that you have a basic understanding of the four personality types that you scored. Look at your score chart with the four Xs connected.
Here are two examples of what your score might look like.
As you focus on your dominant and sub-dominant personality type, it is critical that you understand that these traits reflect your natural inclinations. Weaknesses and negative inclinations in any personality type can be strengthened, balanced, compensated for or even eliminated by choosing to do what is right and best in a situation rather than simply letting your personality's natural inclination dictate your behavior.
However, if you are a Lion and you are placed in a job that calls for Golden Retriever behavior you will struggle against your own personality traits.
For example, Lions have an easy time talking and a hard time listening. Because I am a Lion, listening is neither nor easy. So my natural inclination is to talk in any communication rather than listen, but I can choose to keep quiet and listen, even when I don't feel like it.
We can learn and choose to cultivate the strengths of the other personality traits and utilize them rather than yield to our natural weaknesses.
Once you know that you have a natural bias or tendency to act based on your personality type, you can be on alert and balance your natural tendency by modifying your behavior.
Understanding personality types allows you to identify your hidden strengths and weaknesses so you can play to your strengths and strengthen your weaknesses. As you come to understand weaknesses and use them as a springboard to recruit others who have complementary personalities with strengths that balance or compensate for your weaknesses.
The use of personality in connection with jobs and other people is a science and an art.
One Simple Life Changing Truth
The 3rd Law of Extraordinary Success - You can Reprogram Your Brain!
A New Measurement for Extraordinary Achievement
The 3 Step Process for Reprogramming Your Brain, Attitude and Emotions
Master Strategy #3 - Vision
Laws of Extraordinary Success
The Vision Mapping Process
The 6th Law of Extraordinary Success - Dreams alone, are not enough!
5 Steps to Vision Mapping
A Vision Mapping Success Story
Master Strategy #5 Dream BIG
The 7th Law of Extraordinary Success - Shoot for the Moon!
How Shooting for the Moon Works
5 Steps to Shooting for the Moon
Master Strategy #6 Power Pass
Master Strategy #7 Remove Limits
The 9th Law of Extraordinary Success - Resources!
3 Steps to Remove Limited Resources
Tips to Recruit Other Peoples Money
The 10th Law of Extraordinary Success - Partnering!
Four Steps to Effective Partnering
Eleven Benefits of Effective Partnering
Four Steps to Effective Partnering
Identifying and Recruiting Partners
Master Strategy #9 - Communication
Drive Through Talking
4 Challenges To Effective Communication
3 Hooks to Effective Communication
The 13th Law of Extraordinary Success - Learn to Speak!
3 Greatest Internal Motivating Factors
Skills to Persuasive Presentations
What Persistence Is/Is Not
14th Law of Extraordinary Success - Creative Persistence!
Six Techniques to Develop Persistence
How to Recognize a Three-Legged Horse
Master Strategy # 11 - Time
Taking Control of Your Time
6 Reasons People Procrastinate
Disneys Storyboarding Technique
The 16th Law of Extraordinary Success - Failure is Part of Success!
4 Steps to Overcoming Fear of Failure
How to Reassign the Role of Failure in Your Life
Why Criticism is Such a Formidable Roadblock to Extraordinary Success
Turning Criticism into Your Partner and Ally
Master Strategy #14 Acquiring a Positive Personality
4 Steps to Becoming a Positive Person in a Negative World
7 Keys to Maximize Your Relationships
Rules for Constructive Conflict
Master Strategy #15 - Gaining Passion for Your Visions
Faith -- The IgnitionSwitch
True Rewards of Being Diligent
6 Consequences of Not Being Diligent
4 Root Causes of Lazyness
Overcoming the Barriers to Personal Happiness
Concluding Lecture: 4 Pursuits of Happiness
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