The GO Factor

Today’s Cup of Leadership is the GO Factor.

In order to go to the top of the leadership ladder, you must have help. No one gets to the top alone. There are always people helping anyone who gets to the top of the success ladder. There are those who climb to the top on the backs of other people. The most successful people are those who work with others and go to the top together.

The progression of a truly successful leader goes through the following sequence.

1. It is lonely at the top

2. Come up to the top and join me

3. Lets go to the top together

4. Its not lonely at the top

When a leader matures in this fashion there is more of a cooperation and service to others attitude. Only the insecure leader will make it to the top and push others down in order to stay up there alone. True leaders help others get to the top of the success ladder. Leadership which focuses on serving others and improving their lives will always gain more because they give more. Being a servant leader has been taught for hundreds of years, but it is all too frequently lost in the modern competitive society. The principle is still sound but it does not receive as much attention as it deserves.

Our modern corporate culture all too frequently promotes the idea that if someone gains then someone else loses. A culture which functions on the principle that together we accomplish so much more than any one of us does alone, will always be superior to a competitive culture. There can not be genuine caring and teamwork in a competitive culture.

In order to GO to the top and stay there with peace in your soul, work alongside others who have the same goal and mindset for service to others.

The GO Factor also functions on the fact that a leader must GET UP and take action in order to reach the top of the success ladder. No one gets there without effort. It takes positive thoughts followed by positive goal-oriented action to reach the top. Thoughts alone will not do it. Enthusiasm alone will not do it. Focused and consistent action is an absolute necessity.

The next element of the GO Factor is that a leader must GIVE UP to GO up. There are sacrifices to be made in the journey to the top of the success ladder. Regardless of whether you have a home based business or a job or a traditional brick and mortar business, there will be sacrifices. You can not take off to play every day and still achieve all of your business objectives. It is like losing weight. You can not eat chocolate cake and ice cream every meal and expect to lose weight. You make a choice. Achieving a goal does require choices and sacrifice.

The third element of the GO Factor states that you must GROW UP to GO UP. It requires maturity and personal growth. Jim Rohn says that in order to earn more, you must become more. Filling your mind with inspirational, educational information will assist you in GROWING UP. Increasing your value to society will assist your climb to the top of the success ladder.

To GO UP to the top of the success ladder, you must GET UP, GIVE UP and GROW UP.