4.24.2012

Skill Assessment: Performance Capacity and Quality of Life


Performance capacity is your level of available resources to accomplish tasks.  These resources might include time, knowledge, dexterity, etc. Increase your performance capacity and you increase the likelihood that you will do better work, more work and more enjoyable work.  How do you increase performance capacity?  This is a question on every effective leader, manager and contributing team member's mind.  There are many ways - coaching, training, proper job placement, attending conferences, effective management of resources, etc. However, I believe that if you improve your quality of life you will also improve your performance capacity. 


Quality of life is the alignment of your expectations/desires and the reality of your life.  I.e. - if your work day is going as you expected it to go, your quality of life is higher.  If you are paid what you desire, your quality of life goes up.  If your family treats you and other people as you expect, your quality of life goes up.  Your quality of life factors into performance capacity because a good portion of the resources you need to accomplish tasks effectively are emotional.  These commonly discussed elements include attitude, patience, focus, empathy, happiness, etc.  Your emotional components are fueled by how you feel about your life and the situations and people in it. So, how do you improve your quality of life?  How do you bring a tighter alignment between the expectations/desires and the reality of your life?  Check back for more...

4.06.2012

Emotional Maturity: The Good Life Affirmations List

The following list contains forty "this works better than that" affirmations.  Consider it your reminder of how to reach The Good Life.  Section one are life affirmations, section two are emotional affirmations and section three are relationship affirmations.
 
Life Affirmations

Your life works better than you think
Outside works better than inside
Sunrise works better than snooze
Reading works better than ignorance
Saving works better than spending
The park works better than the couch
Planting works better than chopping
Growing works better than rotting
Stewardship works better than wasting it
Journaling works better than forgetting
Experience works better than education
Earned it works better than given it
A plan works better than winging it
Winging it works better than playing it safe
Simple works better than complicated
Less works better than more
Now works better than never

Emotional Affirmations
Joy works better than sadness
Safe works better than I'm afraid
Calm works better than drama
A smile works better than every alternative
Forgetting works better than holding on to it
Responding works better than reacting
Failing works better than regretting
Fear works better than holding back
Patience works better than I'm sorry

Relationship Affirmations
Together works better than alone
Truth works better than selfishness
Forgiving first works better than forgiving when
I'm sorry works better than I'm right
I'm right works better than I don't know
Giving works better than receiving
Listening works better than talking
Talking works better than texting
Community works better than alarm systems
Asking works better than telling
Working through it works better than going around it
Accepting works better than judging
Learning works better than assuming
I care works better than leave me alone

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