Get a Vision and Live It:
Get a Vision and Live It is a concise and effective guide to tapping personal power and overcoming personal barriers. Visit any bookstore and you will find a vast array of self-help, self-improvement, and self-discovery books. There are dozens of authors, life coaches, and gurus ready to promote their "quick fix" for your life. Their methods vary but the message is fundamentally the same. "Work this program, as described in this book, and be successful." Few, if any of them, have the kind of impact one is looking for. The concepts are too syrupy, the claims too over-inflated, the language too preachy. Larry Olsen recognizes that the ability to succeed lies within everyone. Get a Vision and Live It taps into that ability through a few, very simple methods which use individual resources that already exist. Through this incredibly user-friendly and adaptable guide, Larry Olsen will uncover what works for you. In Get a Vision and Live It, Larry Olsen speaks directly to the reader. His is the voice of a person who defines success in human terms, from a "been there, done that," perspective.
Leadership makes or breaks an organization. Understanding that it’s not the leader outside of us that causes our performance, attitude, and emotion, but the leader within that creates or destroys our destiny. Knowing that our brain is innately positive and optimistic, creates a conscious shift from what’s not happening for me, to having the time of my life right now.
Drive and energy are ignited or disengaged through the chemicals and electricity in our system. Our unlimited brain turns on endorphins or stress depending on our own point of view; am I looking backward or forward? Once we stop driving into the future looking through the rearview mirror and learn how to start ‘looking forward to’, our drive changes instantly from stress to endorphins. Motivation is the key, and we are the ones who own it.
When we understand that the only thing that is constant in our lives is change, we learn how to embrace it rather than fight it. Since there is no growth without discontent, learning to look forward to discontent rather than discouraging it, creates exponential growth and fulfillment.
The idea of working for yourself is extremely romantic. No more bosses, doing as I wish, and working with the people I enjoy, but when you leave the familiar and go into the unknown, where the only person you can rely on is yourself, it can be loaded with challenges as well as huge expenses. What if we could have that now, with the people we work with, and with the work that we do? Learning how to change our mind, not our environment is what the entrepreneurial spirit is all about.