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August 25, 2022,
In tight situations, it can be the separator.
During intense athletic competition, it can be the tie-breaker.
Taking the initiative in life to get stellar results is critical, especially against talented competition.
Initiative is a new plan or process to achieve something or solve a problem.
No doubt this will reveal itself at the 2022 United States Tennis Open.
The US Open Tennis Championships is the premiere hardcourt tennis tournament in the world.
Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon.
As in years past, the US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday.
The US Open employed standard tiebreakers, first to 7, win by 2, in every set of a singles match.
Now in all four Grand Slam events, when a match that reaches 6–6 in the last possible set (the third for women and the fifth for men) an extended tiebreaker to 10 points is played.
Sounds exciting.
There are so many talented female tennis players, when the match gets tight, someone is going to have to break the standard play, take the initiative, and try something different.
One way to do that, which we have not commonly seen on the women’s side, is to surprise your opponent by charging the net and volleying their shot for a winner.
Another form of taking initiative is to serve and volley and force the issue right away, especially if they have a superior ground game to yours.
As the world evolves, even in therapy, there is a new approach to taking the initiative.
At psychologytoday.com they update, “Person-centered therapy, also known as Rogerian therapy or client-based therapy, employs a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in sessions such that, in the process, they discover their own solutions.”
Isn’t that what life should be about? Finding solutions to our challenges without passively waiting for someone else to take the initiative?
Are you ready to walk over to the bookstore?
Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) Paperback – May 21, 2019
Our culture is in a crisis of initiative.
People everywhere in all walks of life feel stuck in their work, hobbies, and social lives, but they see the alternatives as too big and challenging, so they endure just bearable limits. We celebrate entrepreneurship in top-rated television shows, magazines, movies, and biographies, but fewer and fewer people are actually starting companies. What has gone wrong, and how can we break free and take the lead in our own lives?
Joshua Spodek, PhD, MBA, author of Leadership Step by Step, shows us the startling truth: The TV shows, movies, books, and courses that celebrate entrepreneurship have turned it into an artificial performance competition, not only subverting it to serve their promoters’ interests but undermining real initiative with myths and unattainable ideals. Worse still, our education system, far from helping us break free, leaves us with fewer options and less self-direction. Courses in business often skip over the hard part or leave students stuck in theory without any practice.
In Initiative, Spodek presents a practice-based method, not ideas or abstract principles but a sequence of concrete exercises that will lead you to discover and develop passions and take initiative—even if you don’t yet know what you want to take initiative on.
Spodek’s Method Initiative exercises have been tested and refined over years in his popular course at New York University. Spodek illustrates the problem and the solution with stories of students in his course who have started with only a vague idea—or not even that—and have taken initiatives that have transformed their lives and the lives of others.”
We agree.
In our minds, taking the initiative is not only about winning in sports but also putting yourself in a position to live a better new life, as opposed to the one you may have been pre-programmed for.
So, that’s our point of view and hopefully it will be helpful to you.
Time for another point of view. We have a visiting writer with further suggestions.
Take the Initiative and Defeat Procrastination
When conducting my seminars, I often ask leaders, “What social trends are you witnessing that are challenging your ability to effectively lead others?” A common response is, “An acceptance of mediocrity and the lack of initiative among employees.”
The existence of this social trend decreases accountability, promotes procrastination, and is devastating to the efficiency, productivity, and profitability of an organization. It depletes individual creativity, innovation, and a spirit of risk taking because of the lack of assertiveness prevalent in the workforce.
This same attitude, when transferred into our personal lives, has similar consequences. Initiative is defined as “the ability to assess and initiate things independently, the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do, an act or strategy intended to resolve a difficulty or improve a situation, a fresh approach to something.” Assertive is defined as “having or showing a confident and forceful personality.”
Do you personally accept mediocrity, lack initiative, and procrastinate in regard to your potential to excel in life? Or, are you taking the steps necessary to become increasingly assertive in making decisions, accomplishing tasks, and welcoming opportunities to expand into a better you?
Personal initiative plus assertiveness eliminates procrastination. A lack of assertiveness and initiative stimulates the fundamental reasons behind procrastination. Those are the fears of failure and the unknown. Without having a confident personality and the belief in yourself to act independently, putting off what you know needs to be done is easy and sustains those fears. In addition, deciding a task is too difficult or stressful to initiate and complete is only an excuse for not taking ownership for the responsibilities you have created in your personal and professional life.
It is the understanding and implementation of your core values that provide the strength to be assertive and take the initiative. Your core values provide a foundation to execute present and future actions. Structured and defined core values in an organization create the blueprint to hold employees accountable as they enable us to hold ourselves accountable.
Procrastination diminishes self-esteem because it delays acting on the core values that enhance personal pride and self-respect. If you do not act on what needs to be done, how can you grow as a person and as a professional?
Procrastination can be aligned conceptually to a lack of forgiveness because both behaviors allow for incomplete and unresolved issues. Both human frailties direct energy toward a path that is self-destructive. The burden to carry what still needs to be completed drains the human spirit and stifles initiative. All of us know individuals who cannot let things go, whether it be hurts from past relationships, employment, or even personal failures. Are you one of those individuals? Procrastinating on not forgiving yourself or others only creates further frustration, anger, and disappointment because it directs wasteful energy toward what was, instead of directing productive energy toward what can be.
What do you have to lose by being assertive and taking the initiative? If you are honest in your attempt at resolving an issue or accomplishing a task there is nothing to lose. You can only gain from the success or learn from the mistakes made in the process. As many notable leaders have said, “It is better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.”
Five basic practices to overcome procrastination are:
- Believe in yourself that the task at hand can be accomplished successfully
- Set aside time and energy to initiate what needs to be completed
- Manage effectively and follow through with the process to its completion
- Evaluate the completed task by thoroughly reviewing the process to assess ways to improve in the future
- Celebrate the achievement by appreciating yourself and recognizing those who have assisted in the achievement.
Anyone can make a decision not to do something. But if that something is important and contributes to the betterment of you, your family, and your profession, then step up to the plate. Take action and hit the home run by thinking more of others than yourself. Initiative combined with assertiveness creates a team destined to succeed, and you are that team.
Jay C. Rifenbary, an internationally renowned inspirational speaker, trainer, and consultant, is president of Rifenbary Training & Development and author of two books, True To Your Core: Common Sense Values for Living Life to Its Fullest and No Excuse! Incorporating Core Values, Accountability, and Balance into Your Life and Career. Jay’s presentations have been unlimited in their scope of the positive impact they have had and continue to have on organizations, associations, schools, and individuals in the areas of personal and professional core value development and leadership training. Visit http://www.rifenbary.com for more information.
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