Acts of Affirmation; In Service to Others.

How Can I BE of Service...
In terms of Acts of Affirmation, your highest potential is realized in Service to Others. Service to Others is your go-to for Soul expanding, self-sustained, Happiness. In the opening quote, Gandhi presents a HUGE insight to the value of service to others. In Your One Great Life you are called upon to Discover and Deliver the greatness which lies within. This is HOW?!? you get to share your unique gifts to the world. Service to Others is why we are here, here, as in, on earth; as in why I dedicate my time and energy, giving so freely, to the exploration of YourOneGR8Life. 

Service to Others is an Affirmed Act of Giving, Not an indentured act of servitude. Service to Others is in No Way an open invitation to become a door mat! But rather, an affirmed act of mutual respect in which you are allowed to receive in return a greater portion of that which you gave. In Faith, we come to understand that, the Universe in which we live is held in Equilibrium. Held in the spirit of mutual Love, Every act of giving enjoys its equal portion of receipt in return... thus we come to realize that the more we give in service, the greater the opportunities to serve we receive in return. Becoming More, is then reduced to an accumulation of Affirmed Acts, aimed at Being, or Doing, or Giving More.

Thinking That You Have
so Much More to Give, If,
You could Only

Figure Out HOW?!?

Today, let's share a bit from my past. See if you can recognize the call to service and the opportunity to find myself, and to lose myself in the serve others.

Responsibilities of Message...

The door opened and all I could see was the back of 13 heads. I was escorted into the room by the Regional V.P. of Sales. He introduced me as the new Sales Manager, spouted out how he expected greater things out of this group and then left the room. I saw the look in their eyes... Oh great, here we go again; another Sales Manager wannabe, thinking he is going to make a name for himself by beating the hell out of me, pressuring me to make uncomfortable sales, screaming and belittling me when I don't make goal; just great!

I had worked hard to earn this moment, as many do with the aspiration of becoming a Sales Manager. And, this was my team, all 13; 3 sales admins and a core group of 10 sales peeps. I was the third sales manager for this group in the past 20 months... they'd been through the 'first day speech' before. Their team performance had slipped to a ranking of 87th out of 100. Their best individual performer was ranked 150th, out-of-500 sales colleagues. Their checkbooks had dwindled back to month-to-month existence. Gone was the hype of 5-figure commissions, and lost was the free wheeling swagger of being a top performer.

“This Is My One Great Life!

Every Act Sends a Message;

I AM Responsible for My Message.”

~Phillip A. Lopez

Responsibilities of Actions...

They had so much more to offer, but didn’t know HOW!?! They had been left on their own, to manage their personal message. But had not been empower to accept the responsibility of message and actions. They had set a goal of mediocrity and had settled to perform below that goal. In the next 10 minutes that all began to change...

Earlier on that Tuesday morning, the April sales figures had been published. Of course, I printed them-out, copied them and carried them into the room with me. I took the time and handed a copy to each on the sales team. Most didn't even look at that sheet of paper, the room had fallen silent and most had stopped taking notes. You could see, the wheels spinning; on that Tuesday, they braced for the first-day brow beating, just as the previous Sales Managers had been trained and prompted to deliver.

A Transformation - Affirmed in I AM...

I took a different approach. What I asked them to do was to take the sheet of paper and fold it lengthwise into thirds; to make the shape of a lying down triangle. On the forward face, I gave them the instruction to Write, beginning on the Left, I AM...  With eyebrow raised, they began looking to see who they could borrow a pen from. Something was different, they told me years later. Immediately, they sat up in their chairs and waited for the next instruction. After the words I AM... I would like you to write your “name." Then, please, turn your triangle to face yourself, so that it can serve as a name tag, a reminder, an Affirmation of WHO you are!

Now, read it to yourself, Silently. Is the statement in front of you, True or False? Just raise your hand if you believe the statement is, True…

Next, in the lower left corner, I want you to write down the current balance in your checking account. You don’t need to be embarrassed here, your teammates are just as broke as you are, and the sales report which you are writing on will serve to support your current circumstance. Please, just write down your current balance.

Now, read it to yourself, Silently. Is the statement in front of you, True or False? Just raise your hand if you believe the statement is, True…

Ok, On the same line, in the center, I need you write down your dream balance. This is the balance that you will find in your checkbook, when income, and sales are no longer an issue. Alright, now that you have your checkbook loaded, I need you put your pen down and sit back in your chair and close your eyes for 60 seconds.

I know that each of you are either married, engaged or significantly involved in a relationship. Eyes closed… I want you to picture in your mind the checkbook balance that you JUST wrote down and, I want you to pick a place where you are going to travel to with your significant other. I want you see the airport you are departing from, I want you to see the aisle and seat that you are going to, I want you to see the hotel that you are going to stay at, I want you to see the joyous expression on the faces of your loved one and family if you have one.

Now, once you have this mental image firmly planted in your mind… I just need you to keep your eyes closed and stand-up. On that Tuesday, it took less than 50 seconds for each to stand-up. Once they were all on the feet, I simply said to them… this image racing through your mind - this is why you kick-ass at work! From this very moment, for each and everyday that we will share together, You are responsible for your message, you are responsible for the actions which carry your message into reality. When you are ready to accept this responsibility, I invite you to sit down. Once, you are seated, I want you to pick-up your pen and write your travel destination in the lower far right corner.

We never looked at those sales reports on that Tuesday. Symbolically, we used them as a turning point, granting ourselves permission to release the past and to begin anew. To begin, from the inside-outward. Throughout the history of mankind, Great performances have been initiated as a simple Desire, reinforced with acts taken in Ambition and repeated daily to forge their transformation into physical equivalence.

It is no different with your Desire of Purpose. If you know WHO - WHAT, WHY, WHY NOT in the form of inner fear, and HOW?!? will follow.

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Related Reads:  Becoming / Initiate Your Declaration of Purpose! and Moving Desires from the Inside-to-the-Outside.)

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On that Tuesday, My Sales Team took their name tags back to their sales desks, each finding a strategic desk top location. They stared at those silly name tags until the swagger returned; until they had transformed themselves into the physical equivalence of WHO they wanted to be, into the income level they desired, until they could deliver to themselves and their loved ones the lifestyle they each desired.

No Browbeating? No Belittlement of past performance? No Aggressive Sales Techniques? No Duping an unsuspecting Customer for a buck? In the simple words of I AM, we initiated their transformation. By December of that same year, the team found themselves ranked in the top 15; Four of the top 20 sales performers came from this group. I remain indebted to this group for their commitment to excellence delivered daily.

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The question of the day...
Can you see the opportunities of Abundance sitting before You? Opportunities to deliver Your Very Best, in the service to others.

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Mindful Moments (Thoughts to Take Away):

The speed at which I transform my Desire of Purpose into physical equivalence will be directly related to my created Statement of Affirmation, held in Faith. My Affirmation will initiate with 'I AM'...  Today, I AM being called to deliver the Greatness which lies within me. I AM willing to convert this Greatness into its Physical Equivalence - I Can BE, DO, or GIVE, any notion, idea or thought that I AM willing to hold in Affirmation of Faith.

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Leaps of Faith and Love: The WHO within knows, HOW?!?

If you are running behind and didn't catch the Tuesday 12/23 post, here is your link... also, for your convenience, at the end of this post I will provide a link to the SYNC Exercise. Again, if you’re running behind and need to get caught-up, please do so. You will want to get caught-up for two reasons: (1) At this point the OneGR8Life blog is coming at you as a sequential feed; this makes the Tuesday, 12/23, post very valuable for future reference, (2) The SYNC Exercise Link is presently free, but this will expire shortly. The SYNC exercise, along with the other #CreatingPhenomenal work share exercises have always been reserved for our entrepreneur/CEO clients as part of our retained services program.

Now, I haven't taken the time to justify in my mind if the reader numbers for the 12/23 post are so high because it's that good or because it was free. Either way, I AM grateful beyond words!! Thank-You a million-times over!

Follow-Up...

I did want to dedicate an entire post to provide a little follow-up with you, based on some of your feedback. There were a couple of questions that are extremely important to address. Answering them will be helpful for you and will also, help me deliver my Desire of Purpose; Improving the Human Condition.

1) Then each of us landed on earth encoded to deliver our own 'ends'...

HOW can you be so sure about this?

This is a fair question. The answer is rooted in two very powerful values... Faith and Love.

First, Faith. In one of our previous #CreatingPhenomenal post we covered the significance of Desire of Purpose; that within each of us is the necessity to develop and deliver an embedded divine purpose. Certainly, you must have wondered, or felt at some time in your past, that your life must have some purpose; that there must be some specific purpose for your time on earth. Rest assured, your life Does Have purpose and that life purpose is valuable and irreplaceable. Faith in the fact that all life has purpose, allows you to hear Purpose from within as a Universal cry for help; to uncover, develop and deliver that purpose. From within, your delivery of purpose sees not - Age, or Gender, or Race, or Color, or Preference, or Dogma or Creed. These factors, simply, in combination, play a role in your transformation of a Notion, Idea or Thought - into it's Physical Equivalence.

Second, Love. The greatest state of existence for all life, is Love. This being the case, it is unthinkable that the source of Universal love would commission you to a journey on earth, complete with Desire of Purpose; and then fail to provide you with every last detail necessary for you to Dream, Create and Live that Purpose. Please, do not confuse this as a statement of entitlement. Instead, see it as a statement of challenge and as an opportunity of great Ambition.

The challenge is to Dream, Create and Live your Desire of Purpose. The Ambitious opportunity is to Beat the Clock - to not physically expire from life on earth without discovery and completion; without the delivery of your Purpose.

"Leap in Faith. - Rise to

Transform your Greatness in Love."

~Phillip A. Lopez

2) Round 1 - In this Round you begin with 234 values to select from...

Why 234? - Am I Limited to only these values?

234? -I'd like to tell you that there is something mystical or scientific about the number 234... it is sequential- 2, 3, 4 - Look, my educational background is Engineering, one night I woke-up and had this vision of words, columns, rows and boxes. I transformed that vision (a single, Notion, Idea or Thought) into a simple and repeatable process of elimination (a Physical Equivalence). Life is all about the choices of opportunity that you face. The things you choose to Do and the things that you choose Not to Do; these choices create the circumstance of your current reality. If you are on a quest to improve the quality of your circumstance, the method then, of choosing a unique set of values which identify WHO you need to become in order to deliver your Desire of Purpose, could be no different. It had to be all about choices and choices require elimination.

No, you are not limited to the 234 values included in the exercise. Remember, You are Responsible for the Development and Delivery of your unique Desire of Purpose. This means that You are FREE to choose, and must use, every resource that becomes available to you. If you recognize a value missing, that you believe must be added... add it as a 'wild card'. It is Your OneGR8Life, you have been invited to: Dream it, Create it, Live it! It is all about, YOU!

GLORIOUS YOU is all about the things that You choose… Your Becoming. The Dream you choose, differentiates you from every other ‘blok’ riding the subway of life. The creation of your Dream into it’s Physical Equivalence, turning your Dream into a reality is simplified by taking 6-virtues of human understanding and asking them to carry you as your companions of achievement. 

"In the strength of your creation -

You Are Not Alone."

~Phillip A. Lopez

3) You are going to utilize this exercise at various points through-out life...

Can you share examples of this?

You have read many times my usage and application of the term REBOOT. So let's make a short list of circumstances you may experience in your lives that you could categorize as a REBOOT event...

-The change from...

• High School life, to Collegiate Life; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• The Change from ‘teen’ to young adult; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• Completion of College Life, to beginning of Professional Life; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• Completion of College Life, to beginning of Post Grad Life; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• From Single Life, to beginning of Married Life; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• Career Advancement or Career Directional change; a REBOOT event?  Yes or No.
• Married Life to Family Life... What about the news of twins; a REBOOT Event? Yes or No.

Above we have 7 Reboot events and for most, you haven't even cleared 30yrs old... Should we keep going?

-The change from...

• What if Married Life doesn't quite turn-out as you had hoped; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• How about life altering illness or injury or the sudden loss of a Loved one; a REBOOT event? Yes or No
• What a about Job Loss / Business Closure / Bankruptcy / Foreclosure; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• How about expanding your role to CEO / Group V.P. / Product Manager / Sales Manager; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• What about carrying yourself to fulfil an entrepreneur role; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• What about empty nesting; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.
• What does the end of your ‘working life’, at retirement look like; a REBOOT event? Yes or No.

As you can see, there are many circumstances which you will routinely, expected or unexpectedly, face in life where REBOOT is necessary. So, Fear Not... Everybody REBOOTS! From here on out, until the end of your OneGR8Life, You are now equipped to UNCOVER your WHO virtues; Any time, Any where. The virtues necessary to assure the delivery of your Highest Human Potential, your unique Desire of Purpose. What ever that Purpose is… to BE, or to DO, or to GIVE.

My delivery of the SYNC Exercise to you, has Improved your Human Condition. I AM very happy about this!! In Faith and Love, I hope that you will add it to your daily arsenal of OneGR8Life tools. Along with your Map to Obtainment, Your SYNC Exercise will greatly enhance and empower Your OneGR8Life, and the lives that surround you and matter most to you.

Here is the link to the SYNC Exercise.

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Choices of Intention... WHO, Before What and How.

“WHO” ~  First?

Gandhi would have us remember this; on the road to Obtainment, you cannot use methods that violate the ends that you are after. The significance of these words distill down to this... In all life, Ends and Means are then inseparable.

We can better appreciate this when we recall Gandhi's walk. Where he simply understood that you cannot create a world of brotherhood and harmony; through the means of tyranny and oppression. The lesson exemplified through Gandhi is timeless.

The lesson is this: No human can obtain a worthy goal, you cannot arrive at your worthy end, by using unworthy means.

Building Your Pathway...

When you understand the lesson available through Gandhi, you realize that one of the initial stepping stones on your pathway to the Obtainment of your Desire of Purpose, must be to peel yourself down to the core of your own individual means. That the discovery of "WHO" must precede the ends of "WHAT" and "HOW". Fortunately, we have already simplified the core of Obtainment to be; the internal attraction of an external desire.

Imagine for just one moment that the source of infinite intelligence and universal love, has placed You upon the earth for the achievement of your unique Highest Human Potential. What ever that Desire of Purpose might be...

Then each of us landed on earth encoded to deliver our own 'ends'. The beginning of that delivery, the starting point, must be to UNCOVER the 'means' which are inseparable to the fulfillment of those 'ends'.

Hit the Brakes!!

What did we just discover?

That your private lessons, will always precede your public victories. That privately you must UNCOVER your unique 'WHO' virtues before you can proceed to your public fulfillment of 'WHAT' and 'HOW'.

If you are sitting there sort of dazed by the simplicity of the preceding discovery... You should be! Is it any wonder why you struggle to accomplish - You keep digging with the handle of your shovel. You keep looking to solve for WHAT and HOW, with NO Regards for WHO! You need to REJUVENATE, you need to reverse the shovel - You need to start over and begin digging with the blade of your shovel.

If you are now Screaming -

But, HOW?!? Do I SYNC my means with my ends? You would be justified.

So let's walk through a quick and very simple exercise to SYNC your internal means with your external ends, your Desire of Purpose.

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence

by every experience in which you 

really stop to look fear in the face."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The OneGR8Life.com SYNC Exercise comes to you as nine (9) sheets. Eight sheets include instruction and dialogue to walk you through the exercise. The ninth sheet is an uncompleted worksheet for your personal use.

The instruction and dialogue is presented from the perspective of you not having a clear, or completed, Desire of Purpose.

For this perspective, I have taken the liberty of assigning a Desire of Purpose. Why would I do this?

I want you to focus on the format and flow of using the SYNC Exercise worksheet. Once you have walked through the exercise and have gained some comfort and familiarity, you can then repeat the exercise and substitute-in your very own Desire of Purpose.

The value of walking through the exercise and then repeating the exercise will also demonstrate the unique REJUVENATION, flexibility, features of the exercise. You are going to utilize this exercise at various points through-out your OneGR8Life. You will soon see that each set of selected values are unique to the Desire of Purpose that you are currently involved in. Changes which influence your Desire of Purpose... Change the nature of the values necessary to develop and deliver that particular purpose. Now you can REJUVENATE with the ebbs and flows of your OneGR8Life.

The SYNC Exercise (aka, The Value Memory Jogger)...

The SYNC exercise includes '4' Rounds, set up in a progressive and eliminating style.

Round 1 - This is the broadest point of selection. In this Round you will begin with 234 values to select from. The Values are set up in columns of 6 values. You are to select '1' value from each column. You end with 39 selected values. PLEASE note; this Round also allows for a Wild Card selection. Bringing you to a total of 40 personally selected values for Round 1. These are your Choices of Intention. This is a step of responsibility and acceptance... To BE, or DO, or GIVE More, I must Become More.

Round 2 - I call this the 'Weakest Link' round. Here you eliminate one value from each paired column. Refresh your Wild Card, if you need to. When completed, 20 values will remain.

Round 3 - The 'Survivor' Round. You are starting with 20 values... you’re going to whittle this down to 10. Suddenly, the choices get a little tougher. Only the strongest survive in Round 3... time to say good-bye to some pretty solid and supportive values.

Round 4 - The Final Round!  You started with 234 values and have reduced them to the Top 10. But, you are not done! In Round 4 you are required to make the toughest of all your selections... You will need to reduce your Top 10 to the Ultimate 6. That's right! At this point there is no turning back - You must burn the ships at the shoreline and venture on with your Ultimate 6 values.

The SYNC Exercise represents a huge turning point. Up until now you have been receiving, OneGR8Life messages of Hope and Inspiration. The SYNC Exercise turns the corner to provide a little Instruction, to give a little Guidance. This sort of thing may not appeal to you… That’s ok ~ It’s YourOneGR8Life and that life is ALL about choices.

If you would like a copy of the SYNC Exercise, If you would like to SYNC your internal traits of WHO, with your external Ambition of Desire, you will need to request it via email… It will come to you in the privacy of your in-box as is your Dropbox Link. There is no obligation here, I will add your name to our email list for future exercises, but there will be no solicitation here.

For your Dropbox Link - Shoot me an email... phil@onegr8life.com

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"Happiness is when

what you think, what you say, and what you do

are in harmony."

~Mahatma Gandhi

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It is Your OneGR8Life. I AM here to revive the Human Spirit. To embrace the essence that makes your life unique and irreplaceable; for the Obtainment of your Divinely granted Desire of Purpose.

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