LAW 14 — CHAPTER 14: The Law of Expansion
Growth Always Increases Your Capacity
LEARN IT
“Find The Edges and Move Them Out?”
I. How to Increase Your Thinking Capacity
A. Stop thinking more work and start thinking what works
1. Capacity is not always about “more”. It starts with better.
2. Ask these questions about what works:
a. What am I required to do?
b. What gives me the greatest return?
c. What gives me the greatest reward?
B. Stop thinking, can I? Start thinking how can I?
1. The most common reason people do not overcome the odds is they don’t challenge them enough.
2. Ask this question: “What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
3. Discuss this truth: “Self-limiting statements always work.”
4. Remember, most systems in nature are on a constant readjustment to correct the direction toward the goal.
a. Body temperature is regulated by always correcting
b. A flower grows by always responding to the sun
5. Don’t confuse the need to correct with failure.
C. Stop thinking one door and start thinking many doors
1. There are ALWAYS options
2. There is more than one way to do something successfully
3. The odds of arriving anywhere increase with creativity and adaptability.
4. Movement with intentionality creates possibilities
5. Failures and setbacks can be great tools for learning
6. Knowing the future is difficult; controlling the future is impossible
7. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.
8. Success is a result of continued action filled with continual adjustments.
II. How To increase Your Capacity for Action
A. Stop doing only those things you have done and start doing those things you could and should do.
1. Will you continue to do what you have always done? Or try something new?
2. What we should do can and will shift in importance.
3. Expansion requires leaving your comfort zone
4. Making mistakes is a sign you are actually doing something
B. Stop doing what is expected of you and start doing more than is expected.
1. We live in a culture that gives trophies for just showing up
2. Expanding means we must do more than is expected
C. Stop doing important things occasionally and start doing the important things daily
1. When is the time to not do important things?
2. Remember, success is determined in your daily plans.
“Measure Your Capacity”
III. Expand Your Capacity – Expand Your Impact
A. Your impact is a direct function of your capacity
B. There is nothing in your past that determines your future – Your capacity must grow.
C. Ask yourself where your impact is right now – now ask yourself where you would like your impact to be. That difference is the limits of your capacity.
LEAD IT
“When you live this law, you will show others the way and they empower them to
Facilitation Questions Options
OVERCOME GROWING PAINS
(Specific Steps to Amazing Growth)
• Have you made the transition from “I Can’t!” or “Can I? To “How Can I?”
• Do some dreaming and then ask yourself:
If I knew I could not fail, what would I attempt?
If I had no limitations, what would I like to do?
If money were not an issue, what would I be doing with my life?
• Do these things seem impossible, or possible? If they seem possible, then you are ready to expand.
• Give yourself an effectiveness audit so that you can be sure you are thinking WHAT WORKS instead of MORE WORK.
• Think about your own behavioral patterns. What is working and what do you need to adjust? Use the criteria of “Required, Return, Reward” to help you make the needed adjustments.
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