Winners Above All Else Have Much Higher Self-Awareness

A healthy mindset, adaptability, integrity, and greater awareness are just some of the traits commonly shared by winners... 

Winners have a greater sense of awareness.  This comes from various traits of winners that include:

 Eagerness to learn, constantly adding to their knowledge, through insight, experience, judgment, and feedback.  They play on their strengths while avoiding errors and correcting weaknesses.  They believe in the truth and having high integrity.

 Honesty with others and themselves.  If something feels wrong, ask yourself why?  Is it a moral, ethical, or pride issue?  Realize that things that may be right also come with great pains, conflicts, and struggles.  Abraham Lincoln exemplified this plight when he abolished slavery.  The very act took us into civil war.

 Sensitive – more tuned-in and energized by natural highs

 Open-mindedness – all things are relative

 Mindset that all people have equal rights to fulfill their individual potential

 Recognize that individuals are unique.  Each individual has a unique sound frequency (voice-print), DNA, fingerprint, and eye print.  With the spike in identity thefts, biometrics has become a booming business.  No other individual on this planet has the same biometric information as we do.  It is a bad day to be a criminal.

 Adaptability to sensory bombardment and changes.  The explosion in technology has everyone absorbing more sensory events than ever before.  This includes the Internet, computers, Ipods, Palm Pilots, new software, cable T.V., streaming video, etc.

 Ability to understand their own relationship to their environments and the many events and people that interacts each day.  A manager must be able to see the total scope of operations, making sure that all pieces are coming together efficiently, and that the end product is as good as it possibly can be.

 Ability to relax and cope with the trials and tribulations of everyday life, without needing drugs.  Find a healthy stress level for yourself and learn to operate within it.  Learn to view stresses as normal.

 Mental toughness (strength of character) when dealing with failures and adversity.  Winners adapt to and view normal corrective feedback as a tool to stay on target.  Their experiences with failure and adversity, when properly handled, develops a feeling of immunity in us against anxiety, apprehension, depression, and other adverse responses to stress and pressure.

Winners follow the message embedded in the serenity prayer.  The serenity prayer states, “God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”  I grew up with a plaque of the serenity prayer hung above my bed.  I read it at least once each night and it has stuck with me.  It is a constant reminder and comfort to me when I’m struggling with something I can’t control.  Winners remove things that are negative influences and where they can, change things for the better.  Winners adapt and adjust to negative influences when they cannot be changed or removed. 

Integrity is Everything!

A researcher from Santa Clara University in California conducted a study of 1,500 business managers that revealed what workers value most in a supervisor. Above all else, workers wanted a manager whose word was good, who is honest, and trustworthy. Employees also said they respected a leader with competence, able to inspire workers, and skilled in providing direction.

Follow your conscience. Our conscience, as defined in 1974 The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is the consciousness of the moral right and wrong of one’s own acts or motives. When you do acts that are morally wrong, your conscience is often burdened with guilt and remorse. Many times sleep is lost, your thoughts are muddied, and your focus isn’t there. Obviously, these detract you from your true desires.

When you remain morally right, you build trust, honesty, and integrity in those around you. Every manager must have these traits to be successful. As our conscience drives us towards a higher level of morality we continue to experience more personal freedom, power, security, and wisdom. Higher echelons of conscience (morality) require learning, commitment, and acting along the way.

You show integrity by being loyal to those who are not present. Defending the absent retains the trust of those present.

People who intentionally and repeatedly abuse trust must be removed from the organization because you must be able to trust all of your people all of the time.

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Proverbs 10:9 - - The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.

Proverbs 11:3 - - The integrity of the upright guides them, but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.

Proverbs 13:6 - - Righteousness guards the man of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Psalm 15 – Truth is at the heart of every word and deed of a godly person.

Philippians 4:8 – 9: 8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about those things. 9Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me – put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Ephesians 5:5 - - For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person – such a man is an idolater – has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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