Leadership Bootcamp Session 11: Clock Dial & The Vehicle

This session is about pointing people towards opportunity: opportunity that appears in a variety of different ways.

Clock Dial
Where are you on the face of the clock dial?
What are you going to do about it?
- High noon is the best moment in your life
  - Personal relationships
  - Physical fitness
  - Health
  - Finances
  - Self esteem
  - Personal growth and development
  - When you are at high noon, you have the greatest degree of influence that you will have than when you are at any other place on the clock dial
  - High noon is your moment of greatest opportunity, not to be squandered
  - It is fleeting: high noon lasts for one second
  - Realize that things, in fact, are going to change
- Three O’clock is when something has changed, but only you know it
  - The magic of three is that you still have the same influence on others that you had a high noon
  - Most do not have the ability to harvest that influence because they are aware of the change, and fear will begin to have an impact almost immediately
  - Due to pride, ego, and arrogance, we try to hide the fact of the change, when the exact opposite would create the greatest value in our lives
- Six O’clock is when something has changed, and it has become evidenced to other people
  - Now, influence has changed
  - When it becomes evident, something must be done to cauterize the wound
- Nine O’clock is when everything is in chaos
  - Believe it or not, it can get worse
  - You do have a choice
- Carefully Contemplate
  - Where are you on the face of the face of the clock dial?
  - What are you going to do to improve it?
    - Improving it requires concrete, positive action
  - Are you doing that which is required to have the hands of the clock dial move in a direction that is good for you?
    - Are you eating up savings or incurring debt? This is hastening the hands of the clock dial in a negative direction
    - Or, are you saving and investing even the tiniest bit? This is moving the hands of the clock dial in a positive direction
The Vehicle
The keys to the creation of a large income all depend upon the type of vehicle that we select
- Choose a vehicle in which the creation of a large income is at least theoretically possible
- Find a vehicle that is moving the direction that you want to go
  - If the vehicle that we are in is going backward, we are not going to go forward
- Find a vehicle that is going the speed that you would like to grow
  - Realize that that there is no such vehicle that goes fast today, that will be going fast tomorrow
- Find the kind of vehicle in which the ultimate destination is known, but is not dependent on you
  - Add your value so that it arrives at that destination more quickly, in order to impact more people for good
- Just getting in the vehicle does not mean that you are going to grow
  - Recognize that simply being in the vehicle is not enough; it can move forward, leaving you behind
- Do not simply occupy: grab the driver’s wheel and push your foot on the gas!
What are the expressions of leadership?
- Clock Dial
  - Do a candid self-appraisal
    - Know and understand the direction of the clock dial in your life
  - To help those who turn to us for leadership, we can draw the clock dial and advise:
    - What are you doing to make sure the hands are moving in your direction?
- The Vehicle
  - Make the required changes such that your company can begin to go forward
  - Help the company in its moment of challenge
  - Make your group such an attractive place to be that even if it takes months to make money, even if a few more things have to change, your group is such an extraordinary place to be that they wouldn’t contemplate leaving

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