The Tools for Effectiveness
by Shannon Seek, BS, CPCC

Awareness
Recognition and perception of your reality and experience.

Being Present
The experience of your existence; space and time; the quality of being present in your truth, actuality, reality.

Being With Success
The art of experiencing your success, as it happens. Enjoying the fruits of your labor in the present moment. "Getting" that you are a success.

Boundaries
Saying no when you need or want to do so. Setting and following priorities. The juxtaposition between flexibility and defined limits.

Creativity
Expressing yourself in ways that bring out the best in you. Involving all parts of yourself in the process of life. Allowing your ideas, inspirations, and aspirations to be experienced. Having access to and utilizing all of your resources, both internally as well as externally. Remembering to breathe.

Communication
What you mean to say, do, or portray to elicit a desired result. The exchange of given and received messages via writing, reading, speaking, listening, gestures, visual cues and environmental experience.

Deepen Learning
Understanding life's learning and lessons in the context of the big picture of your experience. Noticing how one experience is interrelated to another.

Delegation
Knowing what to have others do for you, who to ask to do it, and when you need outside help. Letting go of having to do it all.

Effectiveness
The ability to produce a desired or definite result with efficiency.

Flow
Being able to focus on what you want, when you want. The ability to be completely present during each task, conversation, and experience throughout your day. Your time, tasks, paper, projects moving smoothly and gliding through the pressures of the Information Age. Allowing flexibility, agility, and presence throughout your life.

Fun
Enjoyment for the sake of itself.

Future Pacing
The self-fulfilling prophecy of your words, thoughts and beliefs. Optimally used to consciously choose the behavior or response most apt to produce a result consistent with what you want in future time.

Growth Curve Allotment
When you are growing, changing, learning and choosing new behaviors, you may be on a growth curve. Sometimes it is easy to forget to allow for the extra time this newness takes. Growth curve allotment acknowledges that you may want to allow a certain cushion of time in your schedule when taking on new behaviors.

"Growing Goal Phenomenon"
(a phrase coined by Shannon Seek)
Setting out to do something, that continues to become a bigger goal in the process and is never really completed. The end goal is not defined clearly, therefore the goal just keeps increasing.

Habits
Conscious and unconscious behaviors which may or may not support you; also, finding the best "habits" or behaviors to support what you want.

Integration
Remembering and owning the various traits and parts of yourself, a process or a system. To make whole/ to unify masculine and feminine energies as well as the dark and light qualities of experience.

In the Zone
Those moments in time when a project flows, time is irrelevant. When you are fully present with access to all of your creative resources.

Mastery
The ongoing practice as well as commitment to skill building, learning and implementing from experience.

Models
Prototypes or patterns of successful behavior that you can replicate and teach others. A model includes the big picture of a process, dynamic or experience. Models create reference points for resolving perplexing problems and moving through obstacles.

Process
The course of an experience, or project. A method or approach you take that supports you best. Honoring the present. Being in touch with what is really happening. The truth in a given situation.

Rapport
Meeting people on the same wavelength by emphasizing what is congruent and similar between you. Using conscious application of body language, tone of voice, speed of speech, and subject of conversation you create rapport. Cultivating awareness and flexibility to create a harmonious dynamic between you and someone else.

Relationship/Intimacy
Deep rapport, open honest communication, the ability to be close to someone without playing games or running old dramas.

Romance
Experiencing the wonders of life. Enjoying the company of a companion, partner or lover to the fullest. Living life from your heart.

State Management
The ability to choose/recreate a mood or mind set that enables you to perform/respond both creatively and resourcefully in any given circumstance. Strategies, approaches, skills for managing and planning your time, projects and life in general.

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