Dave Guerra (the official blog): December 2022

29 December 2022

TRANSPARENCY + FORTHCOMING = SELF-RESPECT - A BELL CURVE

This week’s BELL CURVE focuses on TRANSPARENCY + FORTHCOMING = SELF-RESPECT

There is a certain level of SELF-RESPECT one can achieve when they are Transparent and Forthcoming. This level of SELF-RESPECT comes for the ability of the individual not having to be a caretaker of their lies and who they told what.

The individual that is NOT transparent and NOT forthcoming is someone that honestly believes they are pulling the wool over someone’s eyes. They most certainly are not.

However, the individuals that have lower levels of SELF-RESPECT have it because they are VAIN. Vain in the sense that they honestly believe they can tell lies with impunity and actually people will believe them (without fail or question).

That vanity and ego will take those individuals only so far. Their lies and falsehoods will almost be exposed. Usually, the individual telling the lies is the one that exposes themselves. Either they forget the lies they tell or the forget who they tell and that leads to their downfall.

By ensuring that words like transparency and forthcoming mean more to the individual than some words you can find in the dictionary. By accepting that being transparent and forthcoming there is no need to come up with lies and then having to remember which lie you told and to whom.

Actively pursuing a life of transparency & being forthcoming increases your quality of life. It moves you from an average individual to someone that can be trusted to tell the truth, which is a must in living as an Above Average Life. It also, increases your level of SELF-RESPECT. Once you recognize that you no longer have to lie or mislead others, you will find that life becomes easier and you will work hard not to go back to that way of existing.

The last word: Waiting to be found out is NOT a good way to exist.

Thank you,
David Guerra

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22 December 2022

BLAMING OTHERS & LEADERSHIP QUALITIES - A CHART

This week’s CHART focuses on BLAMING OTHERS & LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

***Please look at this week's chart very carefully as things may not appear as they seem.

Low value individuals are easy to spot. They are the ones that are always blaming others for their misery. They are the ones ready to throw anyone under the bus and they do so quite often. Most of the time they are ready throw hands they moment someone even thinks about blaming them for something they actually did.

While no one actually likes being blamed for anything even if they are responsible. However, when individuals refuse to accept blame and then immediately pass the blame onto others are individuals that are not ready to lead. Blaming others is a childish thing to do. As adults who see no issue or concern with blaming others do so only because they have never been held accountable for their actions and for their lack of action.

By working at reducing the blaming of others and increasing the level of accepting the blame for your actions and inactions you will be working at improving your self-worth, your self-esteem, and most of all, your ability to become a person with high morals and scruples. When you can only blame yourself when you must, then are you ready to lead others.

While it is easy to start and easy to keep doing blaming others when you should be accepting the blame will never get you to where you want to go.

Thank you,

David Guerra

P.S. I invite you to follow me on Twitter: @daveguerra • visit my website: www.daveguerra.com

P.P.S. To order your copy of Great To Follow: Amazon paperback / Amazon Kindle | Barnes & Noble paperback
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15 December 2022

DOING WHAT YOU SAY - A BELL CURVE

This week's BELL CURVE focuses on DOING WHAT YOU SAYING, INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING WHAT YOU "WANT" TO DO.

It’s like another epidemic. People saying what they “need” to do but FAILING to actually do what they say.

It is understandable that LIFE occurs and sometimes plans change but not all the time.

People talk a good game. People will always talk a good game but they also fail to deliver. Sadly, they hold some belief that people will overlook their failure to deliver. Again, who cares what others think?

I know you don’t, you are too good for that. But, what about what you think about yourself?

What about what you think of yourself? Where is your self-respect, your dignity? Do you even have any self-respect?

You are the one saying the words and nothing is closer to your mouth than your ears. That means you hear what is coming out of your piehole.

As a leader of an organization or within a company or in the family structure all that everyone wants is for you to stop saying and start doing.

Folks, everyone is watching your actions especially if they are NOT in line with your words.

You want to lead? You want to be taken seriously? You want to succeed? If you answered YES to any of these three questions then you had better start doing what you say.

Once you start and see the success of starting, then you will be hooked and want to achieve more of what you say you will do. Before you know it, you will have a Higher-Than-Average life.

Simply put: ACTIONS NOT WORDS!

08 December 2022

THE VALUE YOU BRING OTHERS - A CHART

This week’s CHART focuses on THE VALUE YOU BRING OTHERS.

This week’s CHART focuses on THE VALUE YOU BRING OTHERS

I know, I know, it does not matter what others think of you.

I 100% agree with you.

As a CURRENT or FUTURE LEADER your values are what you project. Your values are what others see and judge you by as a someone that is leading others now or want to lead others.

Face it, YOU will ALWAYS be known by & judged by the values you live by, the value others see and NOT the values you say you live by.

If your value system is nothing but a heaping pile of sewage & waste, well don’t be surprised when others shun you. Aside from others with the value system of a cesspool, who would want to be near you let along want to be led by you, now or in the future?

By working to improve on yourself by holding yourself accountable and taking responsibility for your actions then can you begin to improve your value system. Again, failing to continue to take responsibility or refuse to hold yourself accountable, people will less and less value you as a leader. Please KNOW that as the value diminishes so will your recognized ability to lead.

Once others can no longer see value in you as a leader, manager, or anyone that can accept any level of responsibility, and to recover from that admonishment you may never recover the level you once thought you deserved.

Start taking responsibility for your actions. Begin holding yourself accountable.

The sooner the better and it is NEVER too late to start.

01 December 2022

EDUCATION. YOUR EDUCATION - A BELL CURVE

This week's BELL CURVE focuses on EDUCATION. YOUR EDUCATION.

It does not take having a PH.D. to know that without an ever-increasing level of education, you destined to remain right where you are. That is fine for some people but for those that bitch, whine, & moan about how they are not getting anywhere or believe they should be getting paid more for the limited level of responsibility they currently have, if any.

While LIFE is a great teacher, life experiences can only take you so far. Those individuals say life experience is all they need are right and wrong at the same time. If they let life happen to them and that is all, then what have they really learned. What did life really teach them?

This also applies to those the saying they went to the “school of hard knocks” and that is all the education they need. Well, don’t be surprise when you are NOT getting the pay you “feel” you deserve.

The School of Hard Knocks ONLY serves to show that for all the times you have been knocked down, you got back up. KUDOS!

However, the question that should be asked, but all too often is not: What did you learn from getting knocked down? Far too many people learn NOTHING from getting knocked. Sure, they get back up again but quickly forget what knocked them down so they, as expected, get knocked back down.

This is where increasing your level of formal education comes in handy. Educating yourself. Taking the initiative and understanding that there is more in cracking open a book on your own than in putting all your faith into the bare minimum you have put in and “truly” believing it will be more than enough to take you to where you want to be.

Oh, and for those that are dead set on thumping one book and saying that is the only book you need to read to learn about life. Well chances are that book was written about two thousand years ago. What does it serve today? Certainly, it offers ONE unique insight to ONE world view but what about all the other views and perspectives? How about expanding on what you have learned from that ONE book?

The same thing applies to expanding your vocational education. While some are happy being right where they are on the corporate ladder. There are others that REFUSE to remain on the lower rungs and in order to move the ladder they know building on and improving their level of education will make the journey to the top a little bit easier and faster but even then, the need to continue their education will never cease.

One thing I should clear up: Continuing your education does not have to be in a formal classroom setting, it does however involve you taking the initiative and doing something to make increasing your level of education happen.

You want success? Then that's all up to you to achieve it.