Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow High Performance Unites With Higher Consciousness

– By TC North, Ph.D.

In the meat market of professional football, the Denver Broncos look at Peyton Manning as well-aged prime meat. And Tim Tebow? A cut below. But sometimes, even in meat markets, higher consciousness prevails. (How often do you hear the term “higher consciousness” connected to football players?)

In business, government, religion, humanitarian efforts and even our families, most people yearn for leaders with higher consciousness.

In the heart of Denver, we momentarily had two quarterbacks who think and live in their higher consciousness. Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow have demonstrated great depth of character and …

Leadership lessons Tim Tebow, John Fox and the Denver Broncos

Who’d a thunk it? After starting the season with one win and four losses, the Denver Broncos’ football team ended up making the playoffs and winning their first game in the playoffs. Head coach John Fox seems to be both a courageous and strategically mindful leader. Fox replaced Kyle Orton, a statistically accurate quarterback, with the unproven and inaccurate passing quarterback Tim Tebow—to the rapturous joy of some fans and the chagrin of others. Tebow brought energy and leadership that helped turn the season around.

There’s an old adage in sports: “Play your strengths and …

Tim Tebow, a true Fearless Leader™
Is emotional intelligence part of his success?

Tim Tebow’s six comeback wins in recent weeks for the Denver Broncos have been so incredibly improbable that some say it’s divine intervention (some seriously, others tongue in cheek). Not since the 1972 Pittsburgh Steelers Franco Harris “immaculate reception,” dubbed the greatest play in NFL history by NFL Films, have people so strongly suggested that divine intervention played a role in a football game’s outcome. (Click here to view a video of the famous play.)

Let’s set aside divine intervention for this article and examine the intangible Fearless Leader™ qualities that make Tebow a great leader. Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D., a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author, and I have defined a Fearless Leader™…

No confidence? Or, want to increase your level of confidence? 30 days to massive confidence!

– By TC North, Ph.D.

Yes, this sounds like an infomercial you might see at 2 o’clock in the morning, but the technique below will greatly strengthen confidence in almost everyone and build massive confidence in some … all in 30 days or less. Begin with a 10 day commitment. It’s been successful with elite athletes, kids in high school, executives in business, almost everyone who has completed it. It can work for you too! Here’s how …

Do you feel like a fraud? Entrepreneurs – most of them do

– By TC North, Ph.D.

Fifty, 150, 500? I can’t even count the number of highly successful entrepreneurs, sales professionals and executives who’ve told me, “I feel like a fraud,” or something similar — and all these talented people had a secret. Like one very powerful businessman, whom I’ll call Dan.

Dan was a public figure who use to enjoy speaking,

Dr. North’s Creed …
Be present.
Tell the truth.
Play to win.
Don’t be attached to the outcome.

I adopted this magnificent creed early in my career. It’s multidimensional when fully implemented, and it’s easy to understand (yet takes practice to master). Over the next several posts, we’ll examine each part of the creed.

Here’s a brief description of the four parts:
1. Be present. Show up with a clean slate — your only agenda is to serve the person(s) you are with (selling and leadership) or focus on competing at your highest level in sports.
2. Tell the truth. Always be truthful and find ways to deliver the tough truths in a way they can be heard. Tell the truth to others and yourself. We delude ourselves much of the time. Tell the truth to yourself – deal with the reality of every aspect of your situation.
3. Play to win. In everything that’s important to you, play to win — and don’t be afraid to lose. If you are afraid to lose, you play in fear. You can’t play your best when playing in fear.
4. Don’t be attached to the outcome. If you’re too attached, you may focus on how not to lose, or suffer needlessly when you do lose. More importantly, when you focus on the outcome, you are living in the future, get over that, come back to the present, this is where you are competing!

Be present. In leadership and sales, your only agenda is being with and serving the person(s) you are with. You aren’t in the past or future, just in the present. Ask great questions, listen beyond the words you hear and suspend your thinking while listening, so you tune in to and sense the nuances of the conversation that others miss. (When salespeople learn this, sales flow.)

Here’s a success story: Disney asked Lacy, the CEO of a very small — yet successful — Colorado business, to give a proposal for a significant piece of work. When she arrived at Disney, she was able to just be present. Lacy said, “I was so prepared by the time I got there, I wasn’t as nervous as I expected, even though we were meeting with top brass and I’d never presented to such a powerful group of executives. About 20 minutes into the meeting, I was so engaged in listening to what they wanted and sharing what we could do for them that I’d taken my shoes off and was sitting on my feet.” The meeting went well and had a great outcome. Lacy has a wonderful ability to be present, listen (except when she noticed her feet) and engage with others.

Leave me your thoughts and comments below and I look forward to the conversation.

Dr. TC North