Posted by Sharman Lawson on Mon, May 17, 2010 @ 07:00 AM
Bixler Consulting Group provides leadership consulting for mid to senior level executives in executive coaching, leadership workshops, and The Bixler Circle of Leadership. Founded in 1980, Bixler Consulting Group works nationally with over 1,500 corporations and businesses.
One of the lessons I learned is that there is no silver bullet to happiness. There just isn't one single accomplishment, one relationship, one house, one job, one bank balance, or one institution that can single handedly create happiness. Ask Buzz Aldrin, who was part of the Apollo 11 team that was the first to land on the moon. He had a very difficult time creating new goals in his life after that event!
While each event, activity, and person can add to our lives, it is the aggregate of all of them that makes a successful life. I believe a key component to happiness is staying connected.
Connectedness. We do get by with a little help from our friends and colleagues. In our coaching work, we call it The Circle of Influence. It's the group of 20+ people that we report to, are on teams with, have to collaborate with, or directly supervise. Each in their own way plays a role in making us better. Everyone's job in 2010 is to expand his or her Circle of Influence with individuals who are a positive force to encourage and bring out the best in us.
Trevor Marsicano, 20 year old Olympic star speed skater, faced childhood bullying, depression, severe injury, and yet had the determination to not let his astonishing athletic skill be denied. He said the best advice he ever received was "Surround yourself with positive people."
What is your basis for happiness?
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Posted by Sharman Lawson on Thu, Apr 22, 2010 @ 10:17 AM
Bixler Consulting Group provides leadership consulting for mid to senior level executives in executive coaching, leadership workshops, and The Bixler Circle of Leadership. Founded in 1980, Bixler Consulting Group works nationally with over 1,500 corporations and businesses.
Look around your own company. Who has created sustainable happiness? What do they have in common? Some are over 50, others are under 30, some are fairly wealthy, some pretty broke. But the thread that ties all happy people together is they have found a purpose beyond themselves. Maybe it is serving fried chicken in the cafeteria or maybe it is leading the entire company.
Medical research on happiness was conducted in Calcutta with people in desperate poverty. What they learned is that in Calcutta, if people had families to care for and some purpose beyond their own survival, their happiness level was almost on par with middle class American families. Go figure.
But don't get me wrong. Strong cash flow, well earned professional stature, and cool toys are terrific but they are outcomes of financial success and not necessarily happiness. Leveraging and sharing beyond self-interest, losing ourselves by finding purpose in our life's work, has proven to be a key element to happiness.
What is your purpose beyond yourself that helps you weather the storm as well as balances the "heady" times of success?
For more information on our workshops, seminars, and executive coaching please visit our website at
www.bixlerconsulting.com or send your inquiry to
info@bixlerconsulting.com.
To contact Susan Bixler, President & CEO: sbixler@bixlerconsulting.com