Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times

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The positions that you operate from define and shape your behaviors and actions in the present. Therefore, they generate your future results. Results are always ultimately produced by the behaviors and actions that are sourced from your current operating stance. Are you way down in victim gear asking, “How do I get through this?” or are you up in owner’s gear asking, “How do I give 100% regardless of the circumstances and enjoy the process?” It’s extremely wise to ask yourself, “What am I really going to do with all of this great information that I am accumulating? Am I going to utilize it to get the results that I am after in life? Or am I just content with knowing about it?” You can see why zigzags cannot be counted on to get anything done long-term. They are constantly stalled and stopped in life. When you break momentum, you have to start over. Start-up energy should only have to be generated once as having to re-start projects and actions leads to a sense of burnout and defeat.

You don’t always have a choice about the immediate circumstances or conditions of your life, but you do have a choice about the “inner stance that you live from.” Ask someone what he wants to do and he can talk forever. You will hear a lot. Now ask him, when he is finished, what does he choose to do? Silence. And, given where you’re coming from (your inner stance), how do you now see life? Most people have no idea that there is a way that they see things. They think that how they see things is just the way it is.Once you’ve made your commitments, and made them as strong declarations, stay clear on what they are. A human can carry from five to seven authentic commitments at any given time. And your success in keeping them relies on your practice of keeping them straight and not confusing your true commitments with things you are merely involved with. You might remember when you first got it that you could swim or roller skate. You had your now I see moment and it was yours forever. You will notice that the same thing happened when you first perfected your balancing act on a bicycle. The position you operate from in life is what ultimately has you be who you are. By who you are I mean how you exist. How you live. How you function in life. The things you do and don’t do. The things you say. The things you don’t say. How you are experienced by others as well as yourself. When it comes strictly to money, your greatest expense will always be the gap between what you are capable of earning and what you are really earning. This gap is always due to the inner stances you have adopted in which to live and operate. Some inner stances can be very expensive. And like in baseball, dancing, fencing or the martial arts, you can always change your stance. It’s fully within your power in any given moment.

The great Roman philosopher Seneca said, “It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it’s because we do not dare that things are difficult.” When you have a problem, dare to make a bold decision and take decisive action now. Success in life and in business is actually simpler than it looks. Not easier, always, but simpler.

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When you learn to stop stopping you will achieve virtually any goal you ever set. You will never give up on your projects. You will finish everything that you are truly committed to. Het boek Straight-Line Leadership is Dusan Djukich’ langverwachte introductie in de wereld van de Straight-Line methodieken. In dit boek onthult hij exact wat nodig is voor een krachtig persoonlijk en zakelijk leven. Owners tend to deliver well-compensated service. That’s because owners are always looking for “How can I serve them?” While victims are trying desperately to find out “Do they like me?”