Strong Dreams Don’t Die
Look Fear Straight in the Eye, Drop the Excuses and No Longer “Try”
Fred Schaferwww.fredstrikes.com
Why Should I Listen to this Guy?
• 54 years old, Studying High Performance Success 39 years
• Multiple management/supervisory careers – Thousands employees
• National award employee recruiting/retention
• National award sales/marketing
• State/regional awards business & organizational leadership
• 11 years conference keynote/break out speaker
• Own Medical Fitness/Personal Training Practice
• Business consultant/Vocational Calling Coach
• Masters Degree Wellness, Wellness book
• Suffered Serious Hair Loss
Objectives1) Define the idea or concept of a “dream”
2) Discuss why dreams are important
3) List the ingredients to the best types of dreams
4) Review how the workplace can become a dream grower
5) Learn why everyone can boldly grow dreams
6) Outline daily steps of dream to reality
Part I“Draw the Dream”
• The first essential skill - skill of imagination
• “Drawing the Dream” for your location/vocation
• Grass is greener? Acres of Diamonds
• “Living” words with emotion and belief vs dead sentences disappoint
• “Cutting edge” technique beyond “just get to work”
• Consider Writing Own “Bold Declaration Statement”
The Goal is NOT to Work Harder
The purpose of a dream is more life for all
The goal is to work better and easier with systems
A leader and the team is made more and functional
Organizational and individual clear, defined and meaningful dreams
Why census workers die early?
The Challenges of Working and Living
Emotionally negative, distressed states
selectively produce rises in cortisol to accompany
the cardiovascular and catecholamine activation.
Therefore, cortisol may be specifically sensitive to
negative emotional states such as fear
Puts You in the Drivers Seat
“Emotionally positive, activating
challenges call forth increased
cardiovascular and catecholamine
responses without activating cortisol.
Gives YOU and the “Dream Team” a Game plan to Follow
Someone needs to cast the vision
People resist following those who do not know where they are going
To learn more……!
Why don’t more people “boldly declare”?
No guarantees, but without seeds get weeds
We can influence direction – parked or moving
“Secrets” of creative writers/producers brilliance
Regular meetings with their minds/muse/genius
Most don’t know how strong they are
Big Vision is PossibleSimple, Not Easy
In writing Don’t Need Everyone’s Approval
Free falling to your unique calling
Answers what, why, who, how, where, when
One – three years (Seven –Ten? )
Top 1-6 priorities, Start before you are ready
DAILY DOES IT – Get Stuff Done – No excuses
Don’t back down – Never give up, change course
Reflection for a Strong Dream Direction
• Thinking stronger
• Golden Hour/minutes
• Your “Genius”
• Reflective writing
• Reflective reading
• Reflective teaching
More Stupid Meetings Please!Everyone is Brilliant
Stupid is the germ of genius
Steal like an artist
Funnel in the best ideas
10% different is new
Tap into your teams talents – Share the credit!
Less Flaws More Brilliance
What will you Master? Why Will You Master it?
Causes and Strengths
80/20 rule
Fan the flames
Seek out the techies, singers and songwriters
The Plague of “Soft” Business, Leadership and Life Skills
Thinking
Communicating
Leading
Reading
Writing
Selling
Speaking/training/teaching
What will you Master?Make each day a “Masterpiece”
Your “100 word” day
Work on one thing daily – don’t break the chain
Get coaching from someone who has done it
Anything worth doing is worth doing daily
Mastery is simple, mastery is monotonous
Fill our minds with fluff ?– distracted from destiny
The only thing we really have control of is what we think and
the words we use
Every word counts $$$
You might consider getting better with words
Read – Listen – Write – Speak – Sell/persuasive
Brand Your “Special” Brilliance
o Specialists are sought out
o Specialists have more fun & get more done
o Everyone Can (And Should) Be “Special”
o Defensiveness comes from insecurity
o Security comes from knowing ours and others brilliance
o All Brilliance is needed
The Five Pillars of High Performance
• Purpose Pillar – What is your dream/cause beyond $$ ?
• People Pillar - Who will be your “dream team” to get there?
• Physical Pillar - How will you fortify yourself for the dream?
• Professional Prowess Pillar - What dream and team building
knowledge, attitudes and behaviors do you need to bravely lead?
• Passion/Perseverance Pillar – How will you maintain enthusiasm &
commitment in the face of adversity?