Episode 23: Warrior Unscripted - Five Attributes to Level Up Your Life in Two Minutes!
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In Episode 23 of "Warrior: The Art of War for Life ~ A Podcast on Winning," I go unscripted to reflect on the "Five Essential Leadership Attributes" first introduced in Episode 3 and discussed in great detail in Episode 4. They are: wisdom, trust, empathy, courage, and disciplined determination, or grit. In the months, since I first introduced them, I have developed some quick and accessible tools and exercises to help us "level" them up in our lives in about two minutes!

First, knowledge is the arrow, and applied knowledge is wisdom or the ability to hit the bullseye in our lives. In this episode, you'll learn a pair of two-minute wisdom skills for articulating clearly what we know and making it accessible to others to use while learning how to engage others with curiosity and apply what they know to our own circumstances and situations.

Second, the foundation of all trust -- whether it is trustworthiness or entrusting others is self-trust. In the two-minute trust reflection, I give us time to really dig into how to increase our own trust and when and where it breaks down in our lives. With that understanding, and some grace and space, we can overcome our inner obstacles to trust, mend our broken bonds within, and learn to invest in ourselves and others again.

Third, empathy is the key to Emotional Intelligence, interpersonal skills, and thus effective leadership. Here I introduce a two-minute set of "SHARE" skills for engaging those around us with empathy. SHARE stands for: Share, Hear, Ask, Relate, and Express. As we do this, we create powerful bonds of connection with others and will find joy celebrating their successes and supporting each other in our difficulties.

Fourth, courage is the clarion call to face our fears and doubts. It resonates and reverberates like a bell. In exercising greater courage, I introduce a two-minute "Face your FEAR" drill to help us: Face it, Express it, Acknowledge it, and Reframe it so that we can recognize the MESS (Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Social) impact of that fear and the beliefs, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors that emerge from it and get in touch with what is more important to us than that fear and our why -- because our why is our way forward.

Fifth, disciplined determination or grit is the commitment to ourselves to keep climbing the cliffs of challenge -- to scrape and claw our way up the overhangs of life -- in spite of the internal and external naysayers screaming we aren't going to make it. To get in touch with our inner grit, I introduce a two-minute GRIT reflection: Get clear on Growth and Goals, Resolve to Resiliently act, Initiate & Ignore the urge to quit, and Tenaciously try and try again.

Soundtrack by Sentius

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