"Focus on what you want. It's likely you spend most of your life reacting rather than acting. Additionally, research shows that 70% of your thoughts are about what you don't want and what you'd like to avoid." Laura Goodrich
Welcome to a Leadership Channel Podcast on TotalPicture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting.Joining me todayis Laura Goodrich, an internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships.
Surely you’ve experienced something like this: you buy a red car, and suddenly red cars appear everywhere. Why? Because you’re focusing on red cars—and you get more of whatever you focus on. But much of the time, consciously and unconsciously, we dwell on what we don’t want, and that’s what we get.
Drawing on the latest scientific research, Laura Goodrich shows you how to stop fixating on negatives and rewire your brain to focus on positive outcomes.
Laura Goodrich is an internationally recognized expert in the field of workplace dynamics and relationships. She has twenty five years professional experience; twelve of which she has spent as a corporate trainer, coach, consultant, and speaker.
Laura is co-owner of On Impact Productions, an integrated content company which specializes in authoring and producing videos, documentaries, television series, speaking and coaching, and consulting that is dedicated to having a powerful, positive impact on the lives and life skills of those people with which she works.
Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future
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Awareness of supporters and doubters helps leverage these forces
Wherever you are in life’s journey there will be people who will build you up and those who will attempt to do the opposite. I call them supporters and doubters.
In my new book Seeing Red Cars—Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future I discuss these two types in Chapter 4, Tune In and Take Charge. When you consciously focus on what you want, both these types can serve you.
Utilize Supporters
“Been There, Done That” supporters are often referred to as mentors. They may be in your industry, but they may be outside your industry as well. Fresh perspectives and creative innovation can come from these relationships. Ask them early on to challenge your assumptions and provide honest feedback in all interactions.
“Walk a Mile in Another’s Shoes” supporters are the people who are on a similar journey as you. Having partners on a similar journey provides key learning. They also provide needed support and, from time to time, a shoulder to cry on or an empathetic heart to listen to you unload your frustrations.
“I’ll Always Love You, But That Doesn’t Mean I Won’t Challenge Your Assumptions” supporters are friends who know you well and are familiar with your desires. They may not know all the details, but they have a general idea of the big picture you’re shooting for. They’ll love you even if you get off track, and they’ll gently let you know. They’ll also challenge your assumptions and try to help you stay on the path to a well-rounded you. They are advocates for your journey.
Utilize Doubters
There inevitably will be doubters along the way. The doubters are quick to tell you that they don’t think you can do it, whatever “it” may be. For some people, the drive to prove them wrong is a huge motivator. If doubters turn on your inner motivation, go ahead and listen to them, and then get inspired to take action.
I often tell this story: When I was a senior in high school, I was a narrator and actor in a church musical. After the performance, a woman who was a family friend approached me and said, “Laura, I had no idea you had any talent whatsoever.” Her words have no doubt served me in a positive way. I never felt vengeful, just motivated.
For other people, doubters have a huge de-motivating impact. If doubters bring you down, learn to deflect them. They’re easy to spot because they constantly use words like can’t, don’t, and won’t. It takes intentional discipline to recognize that the source of the comments is a doubter and you need to deflect the doubter, shift your car back into drive, and keep on going toward what you want.
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Who are the supporters and doubters in your life? How can each serve you?
What can you do to surround yourself with more supporters who will build you up?
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Seeing Red Cars the book is available from popular retailers through our book website, seeingredcarsbook.com.
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Laura Goodrich
Innovator l Author l Expert Speaker
Radio l TV l Program Host
Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change
Author: Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future is available at Amazonhttp://amzn.to/aj0IUm or Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/c5F1j7
Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win — Forbes Magazine
Laura Goodrich Innovator l Filmmaker l Author l Speaker Radio l TV l Film Host.
Laura Goodrich, Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change hosts the radio show FutureWork, a part of Linked2Leadership Radio Network.
FutureWork will feature reoccurring guests that are engaging and insightful, with subject matter expertise on innovation, future trends, change, and forward thinking workplace solutions.
Please welcome Jody Thompson Co-Founder of the ROWE movement.
A Results-Only Work Environment is one where your talent will show up energized, disciplined, fluid, flexible, and focused - always ready to deliver the results necessary to drive your business. It is a bold, cultural transformation that permeates the attitudes and operating style of an entire workplace, leveling the playing field and giving people the ability to do whatever they want whenever they want as long as the work gets done. In the park, in a coffee shop, in the shower. At midnight or 3am or on Sunday. Whenever and wherever. Co-Founders Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson's conversation is provocative and their ideas are innovative. They do not mince words! They will show us how trusting your employees to get their work done helps your company retain talent, expands your business and brings solutions to problems your company faces every day.
Join in and share your stories and questions laura@onimpactproductions.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/lauragoodrich www.onimpactproductions.com Seeing Red Cars Film and Book. www.SeeingRedCarsBook.com Seeing Red Cars/Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future. Hit's top 10 in business leadership on Amazon.
This is really exciting! We are now offering short powerful videos on Amazon! More to come!
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Red items at home and at work help trigger your memory to focus on what you want
In Seeing Red Cars the book I advise people to place red items in visible places at home and at work. These “triggers” serve to jog your memory of your “I wants” – the goals you are working toward in your personal and professional life.
It’s important to practice what you preach, and at my house we painted the door from our garage to our house RED. See the picture below. (Now, if anyone has ideas of how we can break our dog’s habit of scratching the door when he wants to go out, let me know ;).
We also hung this vibrant artwork (painted by my daughter, so it’s extra special) inside the house, directly in front of the door. Each time I enter the house, the brilliant red takes my breath away and causes me to slow down and focus on what I want with my family relationships and our time together.
The red door and red painting are not there by chance, they are there by choice. I move fast and I bet you do, too.It’s easy for one area in life to drift into another and get in the way of what we really want in the moment. Create visual reminders. Put them in places that will bring you back to what you really want!
In your work environment you can use a red coffee mug or desk accessory. At home you could put red items on a dresser or table. How about wearing red clothing or driving a red car?
For more ideas, see the list of visual, auditory and tactile triggers in the book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future (www.seeingredcarsbook.com).
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Whatred items would catch your attention at home or at work?
How can you “program your brain” to think about your “I wants” whenever you see something red?
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Seeing Red Cars the book is available from popular retailers through our book website, seeingredcarsbook.com.
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Laura Goodrich
Innovator l Author l Expert Speaker
Radio l TV l Program Host
Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change
Author: Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future is available at Amazonhttp://amzn.to/aj0IUm or Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/c5F1j7
Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win — Forbes Magazine
Author Laura Goordrich quotes Don Tapscott, coauthor of Wikinomics and Macrowikinomics, in her new book Seeing Red Cars. The quote frames a critical message in Laura’s book: the world is changing and business will need to respond in kind. But what does that mean for employees?
Enter the reboot. Laura sheds some light to help employees at all levels create a path to be more nimble and relevant at work. She outlines an amazing framework and a corresponding set of tools to help people adapt their skills and perspective to the major shifts corporations and society are experiencing.
I don’t want this blog post to be a review of Laura’s book, though. The purpose of the post is to share my perspective as to why the book is important to employees today. The book is an answer to, “How do I make a difference?”
As I’ve written before, employees want to make a difference in their company. They want to experience meaning in their work. Companies who want to achieve greater levels of success will work with their leaders to influence meaning at work. And in these companies, employees will be ready to show what they’ve got.
It takes an outside-in response to the world for employees to show how they can be a contribution. Laura explains the outside-in response to mean employees need to understand what’s going on around them in the world and the influence it will have on them. The significance of a global market or the growth of social technology needs to be viewed as crucial input to remain nimble and relevant at work.
What does that mean, though?
Employees in the corporations Don Tapscott mentions must see external influences as inputs in to their development plan: learning opportunities; building a network of collaborators; establishing a support structure.
Laura provides a comprehensive set of tools to help forward-thinking and looking employees. The tools establish a foundation to get (greater) clarity on what makes you want to step up and make a difference. Future oriented employees will know their strengths, passions & interests, and values. These become major leverage points to doing work that allows all of us to contribute to a company’s success…and our own.
It’s not enough, though, to know your strengths and such. It’s important to dive deeper into knowing who you are and what you want. See, in the rebooted business and world, relationships and community is king. And to be a contributing member, you must be capable of adapting to constant and sometimes turbulent change. Know who you are and change does get easier.
Reading Seeing Red Cars shows us how to focus on the things we want, to be in action to achieve them, to get (greater) clarity on who we are and what drives us to manifest what we want. And in the context of an organization, what we all want is to be successful, to make a difference, and to soak up meaning from our work.
Here Laura helps us dive deeper through a series of insightful, self-reflection exercises.
As an advocate for businesses bringing change to society and to people who work there, I believe Seeing Red Cars is crucial book. It guides us to turn inwards for insights so that we can transform or strengthen our interactions with others. And always keeping an eye on results, this crucial book is vital in the journey for people/employees and organizations recovering from some recent dark times. It’s what we all need to help change the core of business and ourselves.
Is this a bit over the top? Absolutely! It’s what is needed “to reboot business and the world.” This isn’t the time to play small.
Today is the official release of this important book. Let me explain why it is important. Seeing Red Cars is a metaphor for focusing on what you want. This is in itself very rare, as we (my clients as well as myself) tend to focus on what we don't want (70% of our thoughts are focused on what we don't want). If I ask clients to make a list of their wants not much happens, they look a bit puzzled and a big question mark is shown in their face. However, if I ask what they don't want then they immediately write up a complete list. Through our upbringing, education and work we have not learned to answer this question (what do I want?). Most of the time other people (parents, bosses, partners) decide what is good for us. And we focus on what we don' t want and are then surprised that the result is negative. Well, that is quite logical, you get more of whatever you focus on. So, if you focus on what you don't want then that will grow! In today's society there are challenges on many levels (economical, climate, politics, financial, relationships, health etc). If we focus on the negative aspects of these challenges, then those will grow. There is only one way to circumvent this trend and that is to focus on the positive aspects, on what you do want. Then those positive aspects will grow. The book is a complete menu (including toolkit) to guide you through that process. The book helps you to: -
Resist the natural inclination to focus on negative thoughts, concerns and fears. - Create a sense of awareness around your interests, passions, strengths, and values. - Make the connection between personal and professional (ProPer!!) “I wants” and those of your team and organization to create individual and collective positive outcomes. It is a dynamic process requiring constant awareness and you must keep working at it with diligence and persistence. Laura takes you by the hand and makes sure that you keep on track. So, if you want better outcomes in your life and career, then start with “Seeing Red Cars”.
Laura Goodrich has written a small book with a big message.
I’m not a fan of simplistic, “positive thinking,” the approach that if you dream it you’ll do it. The world is filled with dreamers that don’t achieve. However, I believe, “Seeing Red Cars,” provides rubber-hits-the-road strategies for creating and achieving a vision driven life, team, and organization.
How to drive into a positive future?
Focus on what you want. It’s likely you spend most of your life reacting rather than acting. Additionally, research shows that 70% of your thoughts are about what you don’t want and what you’d like to avoid.
Can you, in this moment, name what you want? You can’t get there if you can’t name it. “Clarity is the most important motivator and predictor of future success. You get more of what you focus on.”
Focus on what you can control. Life’s frustrations center on things you can’t control. Trying to control them drains you. You’ll go farther by playing to your strengths and controlling what you can control.
Six Strategies that help you get there.
Jump into social media. Twitter is the most powerful tool available for establishing new connections.
Follow your intuition. When was the last time you did some soul-searching?
Engage in many conversations. One significant conversation can change your life.
Utilize supporters. Let others help.
Utilize doubters. Prove the: can’t, don’t, and won’t people wrong.
Deal effectively with weaknesses by linking with the strengths of others.
If you can’t state what you want, describe your plan, and define a time-line for getting there, “Seeing Red Cars,” is for you.
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February 14 is the release date of, “Seeing Red Cars.” 50% of the royalties from opening-day sales are being donated to the Make a Wish® Foundation of Minnesota.
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Why don’t individuals focus more on what they want?
How can leaders develop a more positive, vision driven outlook, both personally and organizationally.
Think it, see it do it, Laura Goodrich challenges, in her dynamic new book, Seeing Red Cars. Through life-changing testimonies, Laura shows how most successful leaders focus on what they want, persevere and act when it seems easier to quit.
Steer your day away from negative people, sidetrack what frustrates, avoid spinning wheels in what disappoints, and your brain hardwires for success. Race beyond best intentions and past quagmires of fear. Through story after mind-bending story, Laura shows how choices to focus on winning endpoints generate neuron pathways to innovative answers.
The book’s bound for bestseller status. It’s no surprise, Laura wrote the book at the urging of David Marshall of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, after he viewed her equally compelling, Seeing Red Cars film.
A must read, for leaders who want what it takes to accomplish positive change. Discouraged leaders who tend to default to natural negativity, find themselves suddenly capitalizing on their brain’s amazing ability to change itself into positive personal and professional mental makeovers.
Laura’s book is especially timely as public purse strings tighten, and winning relies more on your ability to leap forward after disappointments. When markets seem to shrink, or corruption swells, Seeing Red Cars, will challenge your mind-set to risk new ventures. You’ll find yourself cultivating innovative skills for leading triumphs, on the other side of disenchantment.
When frustration sidelines you farther and farther away from a vision, Laura’s book shows how to stop replaying regrets or venting – in favor of forging ongoing pathways toward your wants. Tangible rewards follow with each act, because your brain literally changes itself for more positive directions forward. Sound like a winning trek for your coming week?
No question, disappointments can bring to the human brain what cynics bring to new discoveries – loss of hope. No remedies seem to exists, when you view your daily don’t wants, or when you focus on a fall. The opposite is also true.
Laura’s book brims over with winning benefits that grow, regenerate and pave new neuron pathways toward finer destinations. Simply focus on what you want, refuse to dwell on factors that fail you, and risk playing to your passions and strengths.
Seeing Red Cars, is a favorite Mita brainpowered tool, spirited by the most successful leaders, who favor occasions to grasp wisdom from past mistakes rather than focus on regrets. It’s a trigger to triumph for those who see doable dreams on the other side of distress. It’s simply doing more of the I wants, or in Laura Goodrich’s words: Driving yourself, your team and your organization to a positive future.
Seeing Red Cars Author Video
Laura Goodrich
Innovator l Filmmaker l Author l Expert Speaker Radio l TV l Program HostInternationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and ChangeEmail: laura@onimpactproductions.com Website: www.onimpactproductions.com Business: 952-856-6071 Mobile: 952-240-1516 SKYPE: laura.goodrich OOVOO: Laura GoodrichAuthor: Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future is available for pre-sale! Amazon http://amzn.to/aj0IUm or Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/c5F1j7 Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win – Forbes Magazine http://blogs.forbes.com/mindmakeover/2011/02/03/seeing-red-cars-mindset-to-win/Program Host and Author: Seeing Red Cars Film: www.seeingredcars.com Book: www.seeingredcarsbook.com FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars App: Seeing Red Cars “I Want Statement” iPhone/ Ipad http://bit.ly/afWHOx Seeing Red Cars Products: http://bit.ly/cB29Tq
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(Buy Seeing Red Cars the book on Feb. 14 when 50% of royalties will go to Make a Wish® Foundation of Minnesota.)
Welcome to the replay of the Your Career Coaching interview with Laura Goodrich. In this interview Laura will be sharing with us strategies and practical exercises from her latest book 'Seeing Red Cars' to enable you to get more of what you really want in your career. We hope you enjoy the interview. Nicky Hughes
Innovator l Filmmaker l Author l Expert Speaker Radio l TV l Program HostInternationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and ChangeEmail: laura@onimpactproductions.com Website: www.onimpactproductions.com Business: 952-856-6071 SKYPE: laura.goodrich OOVOO: Laura GoodrichAuthor: Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future is available for pre-sale! Amazon http://amzn.to/aj0IUm or Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/c5F1j7 Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win – Forbes Magazine http://blogs.forbes.com/mindmakeover/2011/02/03/seeing-red-cars-mindset-to-win/Program Host and Author: Seeing Red Cars Film: www.seeingredcars.com Book: www.seeingredcarsbook.com FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars App: Seeing Red Cars “I Want Statement” iPhone/ Ipad http://bit.ly/afWHOx Seeing Red Cars Products: http://bit.ly/cB29Tq
Program Host and Author: Shifting Years: Leverage the Power of Generations Film: www.shiftingyears.com FB Shifting Years: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Years-Leverage-The-Power-of-Generations/129830580411162
The Feb. 14 release date for the book Seeing Red Cars is right around the corner! Please help us spread the word that 50% of the royalties from opening-day sales are being donated to the Make a Wish® Foundation of Minnesota.
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Message: Seeing Red Cars—Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future. Purchase your copy on the release day, Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, through www.seeingredcarsbook.com (Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders) when Laura is donating 50% of her opening-day royalties to the Make a Wish® Foundation of Minnesota.
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Warmest regards,
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Laura Goodrich
Innovator l Filmmaker l Author l Expert Speaker Radio l TV l Program HostInternationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and ChangeEmail: laura@onimpactproductions.com Website: www.onimpactproductions.com Business: 952-856-6071 Mobile: 952-240-1516 SKYPE: laura.goodrich OOVOO: Laura GoodrichAuthor: Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future is available for pre-sale! Amazon http://amzn.to/aj0IUm or Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/c5F1j7 Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win – Forbes Magazine http://blogs.forbes.com/mindmakeover/2011/02/03/seeing-red-cars-mindset-to-win/Program Host and Author: Seeing Red Cars Film: www.seeingredcars.com Book: www.seeingredcarsbook.com FB: http://www.facebook.com/SeeingRedCars App: Seeing Red Cars “I Want Statement” iPhone/ Ipad http://bit.ly/afWHOx Seeing Red Cars Products: http://bit.ly/cB29Tq
Program Host and Author: Shifting Years: Leverage the Power of Generations Film: www.shiftingyears.com FB Shifting Years: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shifting-Years-Leverage-The-Power-of-Generations/129830580411162
Focus first on yourself, and then share Red Cars concepts with others
I am humbled by the outpouring of excitement toward my new book Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization to a Positive Future, being released next week on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. This is a common response:
“My mind is going 100 mph.
I am envisioning ways to use this resource with
our (students, team members, employees ...).”
To those individuals who are feeling a rush of initial excitement, I offer the following advice:
Focus on yourself first. Just like you’re instructed on airline flights that in the event of an emergency you should put the oxygen mask on yourself first—and then your child—give yourself oxygen first. Take it S-L-O-W.
Clarify what you want personally and professionally, write down your plan, and start taking daily, weekly and monthly actions toward your “I wants.”
As stated in my book, “It all begins with you. We each play a critical role in building successful organizational cultures by taking personal responsibility and acting on what we can control. It is what we must do if we are serious about making positive things happen. If we focus on what we can control in our own particular areas, then in our groups, then collectively as groups, imagine the difference it could make.”
Armed with clarity regarding your own desires and how you are taking actions toward positive outcomes, start modeling the behaviors and sharing the concepts with others.
Please share your stories and experiences with us! Join the online discussions and share your successes at seeingredcarsbook.com.
We are thrilled with last week’s review in FORBES!
Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win – Forbes Magazine
What do you want personally? What do you want professionally?
What steps can you begin taking now to work toward positive outcomes in your life?
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I invite you to purchase the book Seeing Red Cars on the release date, Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, when 50% of the royalties will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Minnesota. The book is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and seeingredcarsbook.com.
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Laura Goodrich
Innovator l Author l Expert Speaker
Radio l TV l Program Host
Internationally Recognized Expert in Workplace Dynamics and Change
Author: Seeing Red Cars: Driving Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization to a Positive Future is available for pre-sale! Amazonhttp://amzn.to/aj0IUm or Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/c5F1j7
Seeing Red Cars — Mindset to Win — Forbes Magazine
Peter Clayton, Producer/Host Protagonist
