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February 8, 2011
Dear Business Owner,
What is a Personal Ecosystem and what's the relevance to Thought Leadership?
This is a question that Thomas Leonard answered many years ago.
Your personal ecosystem is where you, the entrepreneur, lives, whether you know it or not. It's what keeps the entrepreneurial spirit alive, or makes it wilt.
We all know what happens after something wilts, right? Unless it gets nourishment, it will very likely die.
Designing and installing these environments results in an entrepreneurial ecosystem that sustains your thought leadership for the long term.
Thomas Leonard taught intensively about designing supportive environments in a way that's very useful for thought leaders. This issue of The Best of Thomas provides you with key points and topics related to designing your supportive environment.
Let's jump in, shall we?
 Enjoy,
a
Andrea J. Lee
Editor, The Best of Thomas Newsletter
P.S. A new environment of physical health PLUS business innovation was born last week at  Tour de Coach  where nearly 50 coaches experienced an event unlike any other - imagine training with a crackerjack physical training company while learning about coaching and business skills! To see photos, click here.
P.P.S. In celebration of International Coaching Week and the 8th anniversary of Thomas' passing on February 11, we have a very special offer on one of Thomas' most beloved pieces of work. See below.
Environments Help you Stand Out | An Open House Call This Thursday: "Are you Vanilla, Chocolate ... or Freaky?"
Thomas was a great one for marching to the beat of his own drum. I can confirm that he enjoyed standing out ... in fact his business grew BECAUSE he was willing to stand out.
It's Really OK to Be Different! Let Your Freak Flag Fly in the Marketplace.
This is the theme of an Open House call (this Thursday) being hosted by Suzanne Falter-Barns and Jeffrey Van Dyk, creators of the Spiritual Marketing Quest, itself a groundbreaking, and, shall we say, freaky offering.
From a thought leadership standpoint, it goes without saying - we must learn to be different, or the money just won't flow.
Click here to find out more and join me as I interview Jeffrey and Suzanne on this important topic.
Environments - The Elements of an Ecosystem (Excerpted from the 15  Coaching Proficiencies Book - by Thomas Leonard)
Success becomes sustainable when there are environments and fail safe structures which support it. After all, who wants to rely on fortitude and willpower to get things done or to develop oneself?
Designing and installing these environments results in an entrepreneurial ecosystem that sustains your thought leadership for the long term.
Within a given ecosystem, there are many sub-elements which we can call environments which we can design.
Thomas Leonard taught intensively about designing supportive environments in a way that's very useful for thought leaders.
Key Points/Topics:
1. Environment as partners.
This is a paradigm shift for most people. Your environments can be designed to make things easier for you, to automate processes - whether it be actions, mental processes, or personal habits. Being deliberate about your environments creates a relationship with them - which allows them to support and sustain you in reaching your goals. By creating a relationship with your environments they become much more then tools.
2. Almost anything can be an environment.
You might have to introduce this notion slowly since not many people think actively about their many environments. For example, people, technological systems, the television, office space, pets, the Wealthy Leader training, special interest groups, etc.
3. Environments vs. Self-Reliance.
Relying on willpower to get things done can be done - often at the cost of physical or mental strain and stress if relied on too long. Environments, on the other hand, reduce the stress by setting things up to get done more easily, with less effort.
4. Environments create safety.
Environments do this in two ways. First, they are based on fail-safe structures that provide certainty and reduce stress for the client. Second, by focusing on designing environments, it takes the pressure off us to have to be a certain way - changing the environment to fit them vs. changing themselves to fit the environment. This eliminates, or at least reduce, self-judgment.
You have a right to ...
... perfect environments for you.
... to imagine your environments as you wish.
... to craft and re-craft your environments.
Environments work as a ...
... system so that you don't have to do all the thinking and working.
... filter so that you can deal with smaller amounts of information or distractions.
... solution to the overwhelm of information you can experience.
Environments naturally ...
... evolve you. They keep you responding and growing even when you don't want to.
... develop. You will re-engineer your environments as your needs and capabilities change.
... support you. They help you do more work with less effort and attention.
Please share - which of these ecosystem elements will you integrate into your environment?
"I have learned that people tend to meditate when their lives feel like they're falling apart. Then, when things get better, they stop."
- Thomas Leonard
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Save the Date! | The Wealthy Thought Leader Event is Back in Vancouver this May...
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