The Difference Your Mindset Makes

Source: ConvergenceCoaching, LLC Inspired Ideas

The following includes excerpts, reproduced with permission, from a blog entry by Tamera Loerzel.

My partner, Jennifer, just wrote a great article, “Harness the Power of Team,” for CPA Insider. In her article, Jennifer expressed, “It saddens me to see how little teamwork exists anymore… Instead, we focus on ourselves or our microcosm, competing internally for people, clients, recognition, money and more to ensure that our goals are met and our turf is protected.” Jennifer goes on to explore eight “rules of engagement” for teams, and I want to offer a possible context in which to build on these eight rules, and that is the context of abundance.

If you were to build a team that comes from abundance, how would your team members think if they were abundant thinkers?

Abundant thinkers give selflessly – As a result, abundant thinkers attract positive, fulfilling, and reciprocal relationships in their life and work teams, where both parties help contribute positively to one another's lives – or in the case of a team, contributing positively to the individual team members and the greater good of the team.

Abundant thinkers are more positive and happier – Abundant thinkers focus on what is possible while striving towards both personal and team goals. And, in the process, abundant thinkers do identify areas that need improvement, but from the perspective that the glass is half full.

Abundant thinkers focus on the future – If you keep focusing on the past – what's not working, what you don't have, or the way you wish things could be – how are you ever going to make change happen? Instead of looking backwards all of the time, focus your energy on the future and how you can change your situation.

For the complete article, read “Abundant Teams.”

From Convergence Coaching, LLC Inspired Ideas, http://blog.convergencecoaching.com, March 30, 2011.