The Art of Deliberate Success E-Book

David Keane

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 501

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

An effective framework for professional and personal success Everyone wants to succeed in life, but not everyone knows how. Success isn't just a result of luck and hard work; you also need to know how to define success for yourself and put yourself in the right frame of mind to achieve it. Based on a powerful ten-part framework, The Art of Deliberate Success presents ten chapters that help you identify strengths and weaknesses so you can focus your attention and effort where it matters most. The book includes an online self-assessment tool that helps you pinpoint the areas you need to focus on, followed by chapters dedicated to helping you focus on what matters, using language more effectively, mastering your behaviour, getting things done, and ultimately reach your goals. * Based on the author's 24 years of professional experience and research * Presents a flexible and effective system that allows you to achieve goals that are professional or personal in nature * Features a special online self-assessment tool for identifying strengths and weaknesses and personalising your self-development Informal, easy-to-read, and highly effective, The Art of Deliberate Success is the ideal guide for professionals who want to reach new heights and stay there.

Leseprobe

The Art of Deliberate Success

Table of Contents

About the Author

Prologue

The Deliberate Quotient (DQ)® Quiz

Chapter 1: Decide — what’s important

Your values

What do you want to have, do, be?

What is ‘enough’ for you?

Your unique life purpose

Your campaigns

Discuss your ULP and campaigns

The role of goals

The work connection

Carry a written statement

Set ULP triggers

Chapter 2: Eliminate — focusing on the important

Desires and you

List the things you own

Review what you own

Remove irrelevant personal items

Declutter your workspace

List your relationships

Manage your relationships

Identify relationships you want to foster

Eliminate unnecessary responsibilities

Strive for simplicity

Chapter 3: Language — your internal soundtrack

Watch your language

The language of success

Expand your vocabulary

Recognise and avoid reactive language

Develop an attitude of gratitude

Adopt a mindset of abundance

Listen to your inner voice

Choose your soundtrack

Seek out positive people

Study books and audio

Chapter 4: Information — managing inward and outward flows

Your unique information management style

Modes of communication: pros and cons

Communicate effectively

Incoming information

Practical tools for information management

Information dieting

Your computer set-up

Computer maintenance and security

Take opportunities to upskill

Take charge of your technology

Chapter 5: Beliefs — guiding your behaviour

Know your beliefs

Question yourself

The ‘failure’ belief

What others think of you

Busyness and success

You deserve success

Your beliefs about money

There is always choice

Affirm your beliefs

Do your beliefs match your ULP?

Chapter 6: Energy — synchronising your body and mind

Your unique energy cycle

Focus on your physical wellbeing

Know your sleep cycles and patterns

Nurture your mind

The power of focus and attention

Manage your emotional energy

Banish energy sappers

Increase your spiritual energy

Meaning matters

The practice of meditation

Chapter 7: Responsibility — accepting and taking ownership

Accept 100 per cent responsibility

Your unique situation and how you created it

The future can be different

Choice is always available

Things won’t always work out as planned

Learn from failure and move on

Know when to apologise

Say ‘no’ to responsibilities that are not yours

Take responsibility for stress in your life

Be a role model

Chapter 8: Action — getting work done

Act upon your ULP

Beat procrastination

Get in the zone

The power of non-attachment

Sensory awareness

Cultivate effortlessness

Follow through on prioritised tasks

Take short pauses between tasks

Avoid multi-tasking

Stop when it’s time to stop

Chapter 9: Time — achieving your priorities

Weekly planning

The urgent/important distinction

The crisis quadrant

The value quadrant

The distraction quadrant

The wasted quadrant

Plan with your energy cycle in mind

Plan according to your campaigns

Step 1: review last week

Step 2: connect to your ULP

Step 3: review your campaigns

Step 4: plan by campaign

Step 5: live life by choice, every day

Time chunking

Value your time

Learn to say ‘no’ to things that aren’t important

Avoid time wasters

Uninvited interruptions

Your boss

Too much television

Too much internet surfing, gaming and texting

Too much shopping

Looking for things

Gossip

A slow computer

Low-value reading

Waiting

Live by choice, not by chance

Be flexible

Chapter 10: Evaluate — managing your overall performance

Learn from the past with the future in mind

Measure your success

Collect performance information

Review your performance

Focus on your dreams and your goals

Celebrate and reward your achievements

Build on your strengths

Get help when you need it

Maintain a positive attitude

Remember REAL success

Epilogue — living with success

Recommended reading

My story

Acknowledgements and gratitude

Praise for The Art of Deliberate Success

This excellent book reminds us of one of the most important facts in achieving success: that it happens as the result of deliberate choices and actions. If you want to make your approach to genuine achievement more rigorous and reliable, read it.

Tom Butler-Bowdon — author of 50 Success Classics and Never Too Late To Be Great

In The Art of Deliberate Success, David Keane offers a guide for gaining true alignment as one of the few sustainable advantages in a relentlessly competitive environment. I would recommend it highly for the leaders and managers of any ambitious organisation.

Brad Jackson — Professor, The University of Auckland Business School

David is an astute observer of what’s really going on! A prolific author and, dare I say it, a Thought Leader on the power of intention — being deliberate about what you want to create in your professional and personal world. He is a voice of reason in a world of confusion. His message is a calm call to remember what’s true and what really matters.

Matt Church — founder of Thought Leaders Global and co-author of Thought Leaders

Dr Keane brilliantly tackles the issues of achieving success while at the same time dealing with the struggles of living a balanced life today. He lays out a game plan for success that anyone can understand and adapt to their circumstances, to increase their personal effectiveness, and turn intention into meaningful purpose and action.

Robyn Mackay — Manager of Learning and Development, Deloitte

Many development programs fall short as they fail to take into account the complexity of life. David Keane’s work and book delivers on all counts. The depth and scope of the book is commendable and will prove to be a powerful and transformational experience for all readers.

Michael Henderson — corporate anthropologist

As a people manager I was doubly attracted to attend David’s workshop for a better understanding of the work-life balance we all strive to achieve, for our employees and myself. The strategies we learned from David provided each and every one of us with the tools to help achieve our own individual definition of success, in our personal and professional lives. We continuously strive to apply these principles to ingrain them as part of our corporate culture.

Craig Robinson — Business Director, MSD Animal Health

It’s no secret that everyone who ever achieved success did so by thinking and acting in certain ways. Dr Keane’s inspiring book shows you exactly how they did it.

Beverley Main — Chief Executive, Human Resource Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ)

Dr Keane is a highly successful researcher and teacher of this very effective model. Even more importantly, I have witnessed firsthand how he lives and breathes deliberate success himself. It works! This book is an opportunity for you to make an immediate impact on your work and personal life and become deliberately successful.

Darren Levy — Director of Short Courses, The University of Auckland Business School

I attended the Art of Deliberate Success workshop and it was truly transformational. It helped me to see the ‛bigger picture’ of my life and gave me powerful tools that I use every day to achieve success both professionally and personally.

Katrina Grant — New Zealand netballer

THE ART OF

DELIBERATE SUCCESS

Transform Your Professional and Personal Life

DAVID KEANE

First published in 2013 by Jossey-Bass an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Author: Keane, David

Title: The Art of Deliberate Success: Transform

Your Professional and Personal Life/David Keane.

ISBN:9781118487648 (pbk.)

9781118487754 (hbk.)

Notes: Includes index.

Subjects: Conduct of life.

Success in business.

Dewey Number: 158.1

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To Carmel and Sinéad:We are all in this one together.

And to the 860 workshop and coaching clientswho have taught me so much.

About the author

David Keane is an internationally renowned authority on human achievement and success. Through his keynote speeches, workshops, mentoring, writing and consulting he has transformed the lives of thousands of people.

His team of certified trainers deliver high-impact workshops and coaching programs to business, government and not-for-profit organisations throughout the world.

Dr Keane believes that all success, be it personal, professional or organisational, begins with individuals first taking 100 per cent responsibility for their own development. This ‘inner-work’ approach can initially seem daunting, but it is also incredibly empowering.

Clients include Accenture, ASB Bank, BP, Citigroup, Commonwealth Bank, Dell, Deloitte, Heinz, Hewlett-Packard, Kiwibank, McDonald’s, Microsoft, the New Zealand Government, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Red Cross, Shell, Telstra and Westpac.

For more information, please visit the book and workshop website www.artofdeliberatesuccess.com or Dr Keane’s own website www.drdavidkeane.com.

Prologue — living by choice, not by chance

An unexamined life is not worth living.

— SOCRATES

Some years ago, a friend of mine, David Dier, died after a short illness. David was 37 and had a beautiful wife and a young family. At the time, his passing had a profound impact on me. On one level, I felt the obvious sadness of losing a good friend and the tragedy of his loss to his family. On another level, I really began to think about my own life and, in particular, the work I was doing coaching and working with people who wanted to achieve more success in their professional and personal lives.

I began to think more deeply about what it truly meant to be successful. For David Dier, being successful meant living every moment as if there was no tomorrow. David was full of life and energy. He loved to act on impulse and wasn’t too concerned with what other people thought or said. At the same time, he was a careful planner, and was very deliberate in his professional life and with the work that he accomplished. Looking back on it now, I believe David certainly lived life to the full and I am sure he would have no regrets and no wishes to have done things differently. To me, David Dier is one of the most successful people I have ever known.

Following David’s death, I wondered if all the research I had completed into the patterns and behaviours of successful leaders and managers might have a more general application to everyday life. This eventually led to the creation of a workshop and coaching program where, over the following five years, I worked intensively with more than 860 people from all walks of life. The people I worked with included artists and architects, business owners and bureaucrats, factory workers and firefighters, homemakers and health professionals, professors and pastors, scientists and songwriters, waiters and writers, and people who were so independently wealthy that their time was their own.