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    Plant Your Flag: The Seven Secrets to Winning
    Plant Your Flag: The Seven Secrets to Winning
    Plant Your Flag: The Seven Secrets to Winning
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    Plant Your Flag: The Seven Secrets to Winning

    By Carolyn J. Rivera

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    Learn leadership skills to rise above the status quo and do whatever it takes to achieve your vision with this practical and inspirational guide.

    Everyone faces challenges on a daily basis. They range from inconveniences and temporary setbacks to major life events that can permanently alter someone’s trajectory. These challenges have the power to define us or even defeat us—but only if we let them. Because no matter what gets in the way, every person gets to decide how their story plays out.

    Survivor contestant Carolyn J. Rivera knows this first-hand. She’s experienced the discouragement of defeat as well as the realization that everyone has the power within them to overcome life’s greatest challenges. Through personal stories, relatable examples, and specific calls to action, Plant Your Flag breaks down the steps necessary to pick yourself up, get ahead, and lead the charge to VICTORY no matter what path you’re on.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 5, 2019
    ISBN9781642795660
    Plant Your Flag: The Seven Secrets to Winning

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      Plant Your Flag - Carolyn J. Rivera

      Vision

      V is for Vision

      Whether you see yourself as a motivated leader of a handful of people or the fearless leader of many, you must have a vision of where you want to lead others. Of all the principles I present, this one is truly nonnegotiable. You simply must have a vision—a preferred future, a desired outcome, or a stated goal to lead effectively.

      First, allow me to clarify the difference between what I consider to be two distinct types of leaders—motivated and fearless. I define motivated leaders as those with a clearly defined agenda or a cause they are seeking to support. This might be the parent of a special needs child canvassing the neighborhood seeking to educate others about their child’s disability. It might also be the district manager wanting to win the coveted Top Region award and the rewards that come with it for her team.

      Fearless leaders traditionally are better able to see the potential in others and are able to help them to better believe in themselves all the while striving towards an established goal or set of goals. They know what motivates each member of their team and what methods don’t work. They help those they lead by inspiring and encouraging them and help them to believe success is possible based upon what they bring to the team. An accomplished sales manager responsible for his sales reps’ quarterly revenue is a prime example of a fearless leader. A successful high school football coach knows where his players excel and places them in the roles where they are most likely to do well—for their sake and the team’s.

      For some of us, determining our vision comes relatively easy. We have a natural bent that makes pursuing one path over the others seem obvious. We’re called to go one direction, work towards a clearly defined goal, or at least explore a general area to focus our energies towards. For others of us, the endless possibilities, options, and paths are overwhelming. There’s simply too many paths to consider or roads to travel that we ultimately sit idle—going nowhere because of our inability to choose. We become paralyzed by too many choices.

      Wherever you fall on the spectrum of creating a vision for yourself and those whom you lead, defining your vision is critical. Without the direction a vision provides, you will simply spin your wheels; or to quote an old phrase, you’ll find yourself, going nowhere fast. Certainly that’s not what you want for your life, your family, and others you lead. In a Harvard Business Review article, "Building Your Company’s Vision,²" leadership experts Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras presented what they consider to be the two necessary steps towards crafting a vision:

      »Define what you stand for and why you exist

      »Articulate your aspirations for the future

      Two steps. How hard could that be? For plenty of us, these deep, deep questions cause us to become consumed with two very personal aspects of our life—our past and our future. We get lost in what has happened in our lives up to this point. We obsess over wrong decisions. We wallow in regret for choices not made, actions not taken. Or, we move into overload at the thought of doing everything all at once in an effort to make significant progress. We want what we want and we want to make it happen now. We may not know what we’re aiming for or where we’re trying to get, but we get busy making progress of some sort.

      So yes, crafting your vision involves only two simple and straightforward challenges. But, they’re doozies!

      Many would-be leaders never get past this very first step. They simply can’t commit fully to a single vision. They can’t see the process of creating a vision because they can’t identify and refine one fully formed idea. The consideration of all the options leads them to the completion of

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