The Business State Of Mind
Suppose you are a leader of a business. Any kind of business.
You desire a laid-back professional environment, calm, confident, innovative, focused and relaxed with a sense of ease and joy in order to achieve the company goals as agreed upon.
You recognize this state of mind when you closely watch how athletes in any kind of sport perform. The best performances (world records) are described as flow experiences. They can’t exactly describe it immediately after having done it, but it felt great and effortless.
Research show over and over that the state of mind of athletes was at the basis of that. Confident, calm, focused, being in the moment combined with a true love for the sport. The athletes that enjoy their sport almost always are ahead of their competitors. And therefore they don’t let anything distract them, outside of them and inside of them.
Back to your company.
Imagine a company with no pressure, no stress, no people running around like chickens with their heads chopped off, low adsenteeism, increased productivity, better decisions and great innovative ideas that serve (new) customers in improving the quality of their lives. And as a result of that you get better results, happy returning customers that recommend your company to others automatically and loyal stakeholders.
When people start to understand how they themselves create their state of mind everything changes.
The Three Principles help people to get to the understanding of that.
In times of crazy budgets, tight deadlines, increasing demands of the market, increasing speed of being able to adjust processes and products (agility), necessity for fast and high end innovation, the state of mind of employees will become more and more important.
You can imagine vividly that people within your company having the state of mind I described will be able to make far better decisions and as a result of that results improve. And they will last.
You can imagine when people in your company understand where insights and inspiration come from, your innovation cycle will be more efficient and effective. The quality of it will improve and the speed of successful implementation as well.
You can imagine when people understand the inside out experience of their lives and of their own performance in any context at all, they will recognize that others around them are not responsible for their experiences, they are themselves. As a result of that responsibility and accountability will improve as well as being cooperative.
You can imagine when people understand their innate well-being, resilience and humanity they will become friendly and respectful. Moreover they easily overcome setbacks or dissapointments.
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You can imagine when people understand the endless potential of their mind they will get greater access to that mind and the wisdom within. Especially when they become more at ease, calm and relaxed. Their thinking will improve. Their level of clarity will improve. They wil make better decisions. It helps your business move forward.
All things will shift to a different and unbelievable level.
Teamwork improves.
Efficiency rises.
Communication improves.
Quality of decisions improve.
Billion of dollars are wasted nowadays because of people using their minds inefficiently, spinning their wheels, making poor decisions, having a lot of stress. And a lot of people take anti-depressants to cope with the pressure of every day’s live of which work is a large part. In the Netherlands more than 1 million adults on a population of 17 million people swallow these anti-depressants…..
It is not necessary.
We have the Three Principles to guide us.
They have shown in hundreds of companies that they serve a great cause.
Building great companies that create services and products that improve the lives of their customers and many more to come.
And not to forget, the people working for the companies improve their lives as well.
In that sense The Three Principles might even contribute to building an even better world.
Will you contribute to it as well?
I know you will.
Love all, play to the max, achieve anything. Be Awesome.
