Have you considered working on the seven building blocks for developing your leadership? Are your personal relationships as strong as your leadership skills? Personal effectiveness and integrity and leadership development require the same set of skills. As you develop as an adult, the ability to thrive, find happiness and well-being is grounded in how well you embrace and learn to adapt to change in your ever evolving life. In, Dr. David Gruder's book, The New IQ, "personal, relationship, leadership and integrity development all require the same sets of skills. The seven building blocks for leadership development are:1. being teachable makes you reachable; 2. beware don't neglect your self-care; 3. the secret for learning is great discerning; 4. to reduce strife, harvest gifts from your life; 5. embrace your power and and your life will flower; 6. synergize don't compromise; 7. your most important trip is toward stewardship." What is the backbone of your leadership? Does your integrity embrace autheticity, strong connections with others, and do you impact the greater good? Do you embrace most of the seven building blocks for your personal effectiveness? Which building blocks do you need to improve?

Margaret Moore will have a book signing this weekend in Wellesley, MA. The following press release was taken from Coach Meg's latest Newsletter. I agree with her findings and research, that organizing your mind does help organize your life.. and can impact how you live your life. Finding greater happiness and living with a more relaxed spirit are possibilities for your life too. Amazon: Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life                                   
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The frenetic, demanding, and complex lives we lead require us to be highly organized. We have to find focus in order to get ahead at work; keep track of our kids’ busy schedules; manage the household; maintain friendships; study; stay current with the latest technologies; keep up with our constant data streams; and maintain healthy diet and exercise regimens. (Throw a medical problem, or caring for aging parents, into the mix, and things get really interesting.)

Some people thrive under pressure. The rest of us find ourselves in a perpetual state of distraction, frustration, stress and overwhelm—all symptoms of a disorganized mind.

What are other symptoms? Difficulty getting things done, poor concentration, absent-mindedness, chronic lateness, becoming easily distracted, a cluttered home or workspace, forgetting appointments, poor memory, stress-related illness, unfulfilled relationships, and missed opportunities.

Psychiatrist Paul Hammerness, and executive wellness coach Margaret Moore (aka Coach Meg), have teamed up in a unique physician-coach partnership—a new concept in personal well being, and the way of the future—to educate us and offer solutions.

Dr. Paul has developed six principles, or "Rules of Order," based on the latest neuroscience, for changing our mindsets—how we think and feel. And Coach Meg shows us how to integrate each of these organizing principles into our lives by motivating and guiding us to change what we do.

A potent tool for making lasting change—and the expert guidance of two respected specialists in their fields—it’s a powerful combination that’s sure to help the disorganized among us gain clarity of thought and conquer the chaos.

RULES OF ORDER

Tame your frenzy: Stay calm rather than let negative emotions and static impair your concentration

Sustain attention: Mindfully focus on a task and maintain that focus to make progress that has traction

Apply the brakes: Use distractions wisely, and prevent them from hijacking focus, or use them as a valuable side-trip or break

Mold information: Evaluate and retain information as working memory to fuel creative shifts and connections

Shift sets: Develop "cognitive flexibility;" lift your feet off the ground and make new connections and insights

Connect the dots: Harness creative insights and connections and get yourself to the big picture. (Read more from Margaret Moore's latest newsletter. Or go to Coach Meg @ facebook, Coach Meg @ twitter, or Margaret Moore@ linked-in to follow her.)

Personal effectiveness can help you create authentic change. You know how challenging it is to simply say you are going to change a lifestyle habit and then wind up doing nothing, even though you know by making this change your life would be better. Thinking about changing is the first step to identifying what you really want to be doing. Simply identifying and being aware of what you want to do is not enough. Here is a list of things that will help you create change. You too can become more personally effective in your professional world as well as in your relationships and life at home.

Sustainable lifestyle changes can happen. Steps that can help you create sustainable change are: 1.) name something you want to change, it must be something that if change it would transform your life and is considered to be a 5 on a scale of 1-5; 2.) create a list of things you currently do or don't do that prevents you from changing; 3.) identify what you worry about and assume will happen if you change...describe your fear; 4.) state what you are commited to protecting within your self; 5.) name one thing (a behavior or action) you will safely do to discover a new outcome if you try something different; 6.) describe what progress and ultimately success will look like. Let me know what success you have. Does identifying your worries help you see what your hidden commitment is? We each can create change, re-author our lives and be open to new possibilities when we see how our aaumptions and own beliefs hold us back from living our best life.