Winning Formulas - Strategies
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The power of choice - transform my life
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Responsibility exists not as an obligation but as a way to be the master of my own fate. When I take responsibility then I am the cause of the outcome and have the power to change that outcome. This is a much better place for my state of mind to be than feeling like a helpless victim
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Circle of influence - Start with personal actions and expand out to engage with the people, businesses and entities in my community with whom I have direct influence
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If I do something right people are frequently drawn to that and join me
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It only takes 25% to reach a tipping point and influence the broader population
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When a sufficient number of people use their choices to achieve drawdown it will become contagious
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Let others know when I make a positive intentional choice!
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to cause the tipping point we have to let the world know we are making positive choices!
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The foundation of participation is to choose specific goals
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The whole program is grounded in making specific choices that have specific measurable results in reducing or eliminating emissions.
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Measure results
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My effectiveness will be a function of my measuring progress
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Pick low hanging fruit (big impacts)
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Use the ‘Action Priority Matrix’ do choose what to do first (click on pop up box for graphic)
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Don’t bite off more than I can chew
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Pick things that are achievable.
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Do one solution at a time
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Gain a couple of successes before moving on to new targets
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Get on a team
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Doing something purposeful with people I like is a big source of meaning for me
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What is more fun and rewarding than doing something purposeful with people I like?
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See where I get derailed in the solution sequence in making a choice that I intended to make to accomplish a goal
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Was it not waking up to the issue?
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Not learning about the supply chain cause and effect of the choice?
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Not taking responsibility?
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Not figuring out the better choice or resource? Or
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not actually making the preferable, intentional choice?
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This is where a lot of the time of the working group sessions is spent. Share challenges and support each other in figuring out how to solve them
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Assess the need to dedicate time and attention to get more of the desired results and for my participation to be meaningful
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Plan for this
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I am habituated to making choices that have results I don’t want. It’ll take time and energy to change that and it won’t happen overnight (though somethings can and will!)
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Criteria for participation
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As long as I intend to do what I can I’ll keep participating
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