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How Can High School Dropouts and Extension Cords INCREASE YOUR Business Profits?
You'd think in the stunning valley of Napa, CA that everything is wine and roses and families haven't any problems, but this school district has their share of dropouts and delinquents just like any district in the US.

The three high school teachers I met with last week use the District's toughest youth - anyone who has been expelled from their regular school and who are given a second chance in these special classrooms. We've been meeting with the Board of Education since September, 2009, and in April, we finally got the opportunity to visit the classrooms.

Last week, we'd the honor of earning a presentation to these hard-working teachers on what we could teach them life-saving emotional resilience and positivity skills they could, in turn, teach the kids. It had been a poignant, strangely timed meeting as we all got the news headlines that morning that certain of the former students committed suicide.

These teachers are fantastic, committed caring folks who are dynamite within their classrooms. The idea of our meeting wasn't how good or bad these were as teachers, although certainly a meeting like this where you want to teach them something about their classroom skills - we, having never spent one hour teaching in the classroom could possibly be perceived as threatening in their mind, increase defensive behavior on their part or, in worst case, could be taken as downright insulting to think we knew more than them. They were a lot more than good sports to be there and listen with an open mind, knowing it's about the kids.

We made our presentation, and in August, we'll be delivering a workshop for the teachers on the most recent applications of resilience work, social cognition, positive psychology, and neuroscience. They'll subsequently, have the ability to share these ideas with the kids. A lot more exciting is we've found ways to measure before and after results in order that we can quantify the effect these tools are experiencing.

After a while, the teachers tell us among their biggest challenges: the "not my fault" syndrome. For instance, "I missed the bus, it wasn't my fault." Boy do I've some tools for that one. You can't take a single-engine airplane all over the world and live to inform the story with the "It isn't my fault" thinking pattern.

I love the various tools that help move people across the continuum from being victims of their circumstances to taking full responsibility. They're not only for kids; this is the lifelong lesson that is so powerful it can move people out of poverty (as well as middle income) and into glorious wealth. It's initially counter-intuitive to take responsibility for things you don't think are your fault, but that is the only place where the "power" is. Without responsibility, you can't fix it.

If there's something that you experienced you're "enduring" or feeling a victim of, then your answer would be to move farther across the continuum of taking full responsibility. Take the economy. A lot of people feel like they're a victim of the economy. For the reason that place, you merely suffer. Once website change your mindset to take responsibility, you can begin to plan new solutions and activities to rise above your suffering.

In flying that is taken to the ultimate level. A pilot could say, "engine went, not my fault, let's crash and die." Or he can prepare yourself with checklists, contingencies, great training, another redundant engine. When I speak publicly, I take all sorts of extra equipment I don't need, such as an extension cord. I don't want to get to the event and also have my laptop run out of batteries because I didn't have an electrical source. I take responsibility; I don't leave it to chance. I could create and improve my chances of success by anticipating my failures and being prepared to avoid them if they happen.

That's a snippet of what we'll be teaching the kids in August. Are going to learning it in the bottom rung of the ladder, but the real secret is that there are hundreds of rungs on the duty ladder. What I've found is people apply responsibility intermittently within their lives and especially within their businesses. Almost always there is another rung of the ladder we are able to climb.

How will you apply resilience and responsibility to your business to boost your profits? Below are a few take-aways:

Know what drives you, and make decisions from that place and not from ego or from fear, like the majority of people do. For the teachers, it's about the kids.
Be and stay coachable. Being coachable never takes away from how good you already are. No one on earth can know every tool they need at the rate science and knowledge is expanding. When we're not coachable, automagically we become defensive, stubborn, and set in our ways. It's more pleasurable to give in to our natural curiosity and to be lifelong learners, particularly if you're a teacher or an entrepreneur.
Go where in fact the power is. Take responsibility and come up with creative answers to control the situation.
Understand you can find levels, layers, and rungs of responsibility. See if you could find a blind spot in your business in terms of responsibility and shore up the gap.
Know you can find concrete tools now in science where we can now learn emotional resilience skills. These are the same skills that help people gain control of slimming down, making more income, and achieving their dreams. It doesn't have to be a big unknown black mystery box any longer. It's learnable, just like math, reading, and science, so when we master this, the outcomes produce the best paybacks I've ever seen in business. That is my core message and service to others.
Although we're good at knocking out the things on our business plans or to-do lists, the ideas above often never make it to our lists. We browse the articles, and soon we forget. Don't make that mistake. Once check here start developing these soft skills rather than continuing to work on your hard skills forever, that's if you are going to see true and amazing transformation in your business and your life.

�2010 Sandra L. Smith, Inc. Sandi Smith coaches women business owners to improve their revenues, live fearlessly, and take giant leaps in their business utilizing the science of breakthrough success. Subscribe at http://www.sandismith.com to get her FREE newsletter full of business-building tips.
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