Attain Self-Mastery, Interdependence, and Reflective Leadership

Develop Self-Mastery. Self-Mastery is the first and deepest laid foundational building block for your business success. It is taking complete responsibility for your own behavior and deciding to control your own reactions to outside pressures. This means that you will not blame others for your past mistakes and your present circumstances. You will use your own self-awareness, self-knowledge, imagination, conscience and will-power to be self-determining and proactive. Self-Mastery says, “My success depends on me.”

Seek Interdependence. Interdependence is the second layer of foundational building block after obtaining Self-Mastery. Interdependence teaches you to develop strategic relationships with key people and to understand that you need them to help you create successful business outcomes. Once you have achieved Self-Mastery, you will realize that you cannot attain maximum effectiveness by your own thinking and behaving alone. You learn that by working in concert with others while being personally responsible for your own actions, a team mentality develops. The team mentality allows you and every member of the team to contribute to the effort at maximum levels and to experience maximum satisfaction from the process of working together.

Use Reflective Leadership to maximize business outcomes. Reflective Leadership is the “beyond myself, my family, my community and my organization” third course of foundational building block that requires interdependent organizational strategic partners to function as a “think-tank.” The goal of this Reflection is to think and plan together in new ways, using new approaches to create new products, services and solutions that meet needs and effectively address common problems. At this foundational level, there is a collective focus on working together to leverage the strengths of each group involved to maximize their collective profitability in their particular sphere of influence.

Everything you desire in life begins with your attainment of Self-Mastery. Once you have gained Self-Mastery, you will come to realize that you cannot become your highest and best self all by yourself. This will lead you to seek out principled people—or to be sought out by principled people—with whom you will develop strategic alliances. When you and those with whom you are strategically allied have gone as far as you can go, you will realize that your circle and sphere of influence must be larger and wider. It is at this point that—through your intention and action—the way will be opened to collaborate with partners who believe in the power of the Master Mind, and together, you will create new systems, products, services and applications that can be implemented to impact, empower and energize multitudes of people for their good and the welfare of millions of people around the world.