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In Part 2 of this series on John Norcross’s Changeology and it’s similarity to parts of the P10 Principle, we discussed Norcross’s brief discussion on the science of change. In this Part 3, we will discuss what Norcross calls “The Keys” to change.
Effective change takes time; usually at least 90 days. And there are certain catalytic strategies that provoke or accelerate significant change.
Continue reading “5 Changeology Steps To Becoming Great! All the Time! – Part 3”
In our first post on change and Changeology, we discussed John C. Norcross’s fascination with change. In this second post we are going to look at the first part of Changeology, wherein Norcross discusses the science behind and keys supporting.
Change is hard. Not the constant change that permeates our growth in life. That’s natural and just a little bit difficult each time we do it. But, focused and intentional change is hard. We resist this type of change with a love/hate vengeance. Don’t fight this resistance; embrace it and use it as fuel.
Norcross’s Changeology posits we all change within Four Ambition Clusters: Continue reading “5 Changeology Steps To Becoming Great! All the Time! – Part 2”
Achieving Greatness! requires change. For this and the next seven posts we are going to see how the methods we teach at Great! All the Time! stack up against the teachings of probably the Greatest Changeologist in the world.
John C. Norcross, Ph.D. states in Changeology that following his scientific program outlined therein can increase your chance of success in changing what you want to change and experience lasting results within 90 days and without drugs or other types of formal treatment. Continue reading “5 Changeology Steps to Becoming Great! All the Time! – Part 1”
Have you ever thought, when God mysteriously sends you the perfect opportunity to do something new and different, “Should I or shouldn’t I snap this up? It’s almost too good to be true.” Yeah, me, too. And the times I have passed on such things still haunt me to this day.
But not today, my friends, not today.
Meet Susan’s and my new best friend on Oahu and in our Marriott Vacation Club family, Alberto Maldonado, who quietly and magnificently serves a small tribe of less than 500 clients as a Senior Sales Executive for Marriott Vacation Club in Ko Olina, Hawaii. More important than having just sales education, training, experience, and success, however, Alberto has a winning personality, expert credentials as a surfer (he is the former Peruvian surfing champion pictured here to the right), and the Aloha spirit of being willing to serve people without expecting anything in return.
Which is how I came to be standing atop his soft top board in the picture below. Wait for it.
For the last week of every year since the 2000, Susan and I have gone to one of our Marriott vacation villas located around the world for our annual “Last Year – Next Year Think Week,” where we recap what all we did over the last year and set our course for our happily married adventures during the next year. During each of those visits, we schedule a meeting with a Marriott sales associate to stay up on what is new in the Marriott Vacation Club program so we can squeeze as much value as possible out of this key item of property we count among our life’s precious resources. Because we are experienced owners who aren’t necessarily looking to add to our portfolio, we usually get assigned to some of the newest, greenest associates in the ownership center. This year, however, we got picked up by a senior sales associate, to wit Alberto Maldonado.
A lean, well-tanned Peruvian, Alberto chatted us up with his romantic South American accent in the reception area over our complimentary hot tea and then invited us back to his office. As he slid up to his side of the desk across from us on the other side, he asked the perfect salesman’s question, one I have tried to teach sales training clients to put first and foremost in their minds, one I have planted on the top of my branding for decades. Alberto asked, “How can I help you today.”
“Well, I’m glad you asked that just the way you did,” I replied. “Because it makes us feel so much more cared for than you just trying to sell us additional weeks.” He nodded with gratitude, as I continued. “In fact, we are trying to decide whether to sell our weeks, convert to hybrid weeks to access the newer resorts, or just sit still.”
Alberto did next what I have taught salespeople to do for years. He turned over his information sheet on me, picked up a pen, and put the pen to the blank side of the paper, and said, “Okay, tell me what you want to do and let me see if I can help you do it.”
Long story short, he fashioned a solution for us that was better than we had imagined. The GRRRRReat! part of the story, however, was Alberto’s interest in deepening our collective connection after we had closed the deal.
“Have you ever been surfing, Ken and Susan. Because I like taking my customers out surfing. I’m a great instructor and I know a great place, where only the locals go. If you want, I can take you out there tomorrow and teach you how to surf.”
It just so happens, I have always wanted to learn how to surf, and the warm weather of Hawaii made the prospect even more promising than my experience of learning how to snow ski in Breckenridge in 1982 (but that’s a different story). The next afternoon, Alberto took us to a beach with a great view of Diamond Head, sat us down for the pre-ride class, went over the basics, strapped his board to my left ankle and off we went into the water.
Here’s the result of my second attempt.
I’m the guy riding on the front of the wave. The real victor, however, is Alberto Maldonado, the guy in middle right side of the shot with his hands in the air holding me up from yards away, having helped me, in his own Aloha way, serving me and expecting nothing from me in return.
My new lifelong friend. Not lifelong because we’ve been friends for long, but rather because, we will be friends forever.
[reminder]What’s your most recent example of someone else living the Aloha way, only doing something for the service of others? Tell us about it in a comment below. [/reminder]
In the meantime, you GOTTABGATT!, so go out there today and be Great! All the time!
While reading Ken’s year-end posts, I am sure you have noticed he has been talking about our annual end-of-the-year planning trip we take the last week of each year. In essence, this trip gives us a chance to take stock of where we were last year, where we are this year, and plan for where we want to be in the next year.
Being the “Dr. Mom” in our family, my part of this deal is your health. But, I’m not going to waste your resources now on specific “New Year’s Resolutions,” all those healthy decisions you need to make in order to become a better you. While resolutions, as affirmative goals, are important and definitely need to be discussed but that’s not how I want you to start this new year. Continue reading “The One Thing You Need for a Healthy New Year!”
People often ask me, “What on earth do you mean when you say, ‘Your life is the sum of your relationships.’?”
Let me explain, because relationships can be either as simple or as complicated as you make them. Continue reading “Why We All Crave Our Positive Relationships”
Susan and I have struggled to rightsize our bodies for years. Susan grew up as a “fatty” and I grew up as a beanpole. When I met her in 1977, Susan had just hit her weight loss goal of 125 pounds (or so, I don’t remember exactly) by using WeightWatchers for a good long time. I weighed about 150 pounds.
Over the next three decades, as we had six kids in nine years and built our careers as a doctor and a lawyer, we each grew to between 200 and 250 pounds. Up and down and down and up. Over and over again. And then something just clicked. Continue reading “8 Steps to RightSizing Your Body”
The top four of these diseases kill over 2 million Americans each year. We are all dying, some of us faster than others; and chances are one of these top ten diseases is eventually going to get us sooner or later. Our goal here at Great! All the Time! is to help you use your Greatness! to make death wait as long as possible. There are plenty of things you can do to stop yourself from dying from any of these Top 10 causes of death any sooner than you should. Continue reading “3 Major Things You Can Do To Stop Killing Yourself Ever So Slowly”
Religion plays a significant part in most people’s personal facets. Having practiced Judaism for all of my life, with my level of observance of God’s teachings in His Torah swinging back and forth several times in my 56 years, I have, since 1984 as our first of six children was born, been on a rising path of Torah observance. On October 20, 2015, I began an in-depth Torah learning program with the goal of achieving my first rabbinic ordination (smicha in Hebrew) by Rosh Hashanah in 2017. As my father Leo used to always quote my Grandma Rose, “It’s never too late to do good.” Continue reading “Judaism is a Source of Values That Drives My Greatness!”
What are these five must do’s you must do in order to be Great! in business? I’ll tell you. Continue reading “5 “Must Do’s” You Must Do To Be Great! in Business”