Ultrapreneur Academy

Course 1 3 Lessons

Beginning your Ultrapreneurship Journey

Getting Started

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes.

Lessons For Effective Ultrapreneurship

The Lessons we share are habits of effectiveness. Because they are based on principles, they make the maximum long-term beneficial results possible.

Experiencing The Paradigm Shifts

We would like to suggest two Paradigm Shifts that will greatly increase the value you will receive from this material. First, We would recommend that you not "see" this material as simple lessons, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.

Course 2 3 Lessons

Filtering Your Influences

Self Awareness And Proactivity

As you go through these lessons, try to stand apart from yourself. Try to project your consciousness upward into a corner of the room and see yourself, in your mind's eye, reading.

Act or be Acted Upon

The difference between people who exercise initiative and those who don't is literally the difference between night and day. I'm not talking about a 25 to 50 percent difference in effectiveness;

Circle of Concern. Circle of Influence.

Another excellent way to become more self-aware regarding our own degree of proactivity is to look at where we focus our time and energy. We each have a wide range of concerns -- our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war.

Course 3 5 Lessons

Owning your Ultrapreneurship Narrative

The Circle Of Concern Explained

One way to determine which circle our concern is is to distinguish between the have's and the be's.

Circle Of Influence

At the very heart of our Circle of Influence is our ability to make and keep commitments and promises. The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.

Attend Your Own Funeral

Please find a place to read these next few pages where you can be alone and uninterrupted. Clear your mind of everything except what you will read and what I will invite you to do.

The Start Of Creation

It's a principle that all things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle or Influence to shape much of our lives by default.

You Are Responsible For Your Own Script

As we previously observed, proactivity is based on the unique human endowment of self-awareness. The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.

Course 4 4 Lessons

Principles of effective management

Discipline in Management

Discipline derives from disciple -- disciple to a philosophy, disciple to a set of principles, disciple to a set of values, disciple to an overriding purpose, to a superordinate goal, or a person who represents that goal.

Urgency And Importance - Quadrant 1

The two factors that define an activity are urgent and important. Urgent means it requires immediate attention. It's "Now!" Urgent things act on us. A ringing phone is urgent. Most people can't stand the thought of just allowing the phone to ring.

Moving Into Quadrant II

If Quadrant II activities are clearly the heart of effective personal management -- the "first things" we need to put first -- then how do we organize and execute around those things The first generation of time management does not even recognize the concept of priority.

Living It

Returning once more to the computer metaphor, if course 1 says "You're the programmer" and course 2 says "Write the program," then course3 says "Run the program," "Live the program." And living it is primarily a function of our independent will, our self-discipline, our integrity, and commitment -- not to short-term goals and schedules or to the impulse of the moment, but to the correct principles and our own deepest values, which give meaning and context to our goals, our schedules, and our lives.

Course 5 4 Lessons

The Importance of Synergy

Creative Cooperation

When properly understood, synergy is the highest activity in all life -- the true test and manifestation of all the other lessons put together.

Synergy in Business

One particularly meaningful synergistic experience was when we worked with associates to create the corporate mission statement for our business. Almost all members of the company went high up into the mountains were surrounded by the magnificence of nature, we began with a first draft of what some of us considered to be an excellent mission statement.

Negative Synergy

Seeking the Third Alternative is a major Paradigm Shift from the dichotomous, either/or mentality. But look at the difference in results.

Force Field Analysis

In an interdependent situation, synergy is particularly powerful in dealing with negative forces that work against growth and change. Sociologist Kurt Lewin developed a "Force Field Analysis" model in which he described any current level of performance or being as a state of equilibrium between the driving forces that encourage upward movement and the restraining forces that discourage it.

Lesson 1 4 min. read

Getting Started

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Lesson 2 3 min. read

Lessons For Effective Ultrapreneurship

The Lessons we share are habits of effectiveness. Because they are based on principles, they make the maximum long-term beneficial results possible. Lesson 3 4 min. read

Experiencing The Paradigm Shifts

We would like to suggest two Paradigm Shifts that will greatly increase the value you will receive from this material. First, We would recommend that you not "see" this material as simple lessons, in the sense that it is something to read once and put on a shelf.

Lesson 1 3 min. read

Self Awareness And Proactivity

As you go through these lessons, try to stand apart from yourself. Try to project your consciousness upward into a corner of the room and see yourself, in your mind's eye, reading. Lesson 2 4 min. read

Act or be Acted Upon

The difference between people who exercise initiative and those who don't is literally the difference between night and day. I'm not talking about a 25 to 50 percent difference in effectiveness; Lesson 3 2 min. read

Circle of Concern. Circle of Influence.

Another excellent way to become more self-aware regarding our own degree of proactivity is to look at where we focus our time and energy. We each have a wide range of concerns -- our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war.

Lesson 1 5 min. read

The Circle Of Concern Explained

One way to determine which circle our concern is is to distinguish between the have's and the be's. Lesson 2 5 min. read

Circle Of Influence

At the very heart of our Circle of Influence is our ability to make and keep commitments and promises. The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity. Lesson 3 3 min. read

Attend Your Own Funeral

Please find a place to read these next few pages where you can be alone and uninterrupted. Clear your mind of everything except what you will read and what I will invite you to do. Lesson 4 4 min. read

The Start Of Creation

It's a principle that all things are created twice, but not all first creations are by conscious design. In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances outside our Circle or Influence to shape much of our lives by default. Lesson 5 5 min. read

You Are Responsible For Your Own Script

As we previously observed, proactivity is based on the unique human endowment of self-awareness. The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are imagination and conscience.

Lesson 1 7 min. read

Discipline in Management

Discipline derives from disciple -- disciple to a philosophy, disciple to a set of principles, disciple to a set of values, disciple to an overriding purpose, to a superordinate goal, or a person who represents that goal. Lesson 2 5 min. read

Urgency And Importance - Quadrant 1

The two factors that define an activity are urgent and important. Urgent means it requires immediate attention. It's "Now!" Urgent things act on us. A ringing phone is urgent. Most people can't stand the thought of just allowing the phone to ring. Lesson 3 3 min. read

Moving Into Quadrant II

If Quadrant II activities are clearly the heart of effective personal management -- the "first things" we need to put first -- then how do we organize and execute around those things The first generation of time management does not even recognize the concept of priority. Lesson 4 3 min. read

Living It

Returning once more to the computer metaphor, if course 1 says "You're the programmer" and course 2 says "Write the program," then course3 says "Run the program," "Live the program." And living it is primarily a function of our independent will, our self-discipline, our integrity, and commitment -- not to short-term goals and schedules or to the impulse of the moment, but to the correct principles and our own deepest values, which give meaning and context to our goals, our schedules, and our lives.

Lesson 1 5 min. read

Creative Cooperation

When properly understood, synergy is the highest activity in all life -- the true test and manifestation of all the other lessons put together. Lesson 2 6 min. read

Synergy in Business

One particularly meaningful synergistic experience was when we worked with associates to create the corporate mission statement for our business. Almost all members of the company went high up into the mountains were surrounded by the magnificence of nature, we began with a first draft of what some of us considered to be an excellent mission statement. Lesson 3 6 min. read

Negative Synergy

Seeking the Third Alternative is a major Paradigm Shift from the dichotomous, either/or mentality. But look at the difference in results. Lesson 4 6 min. read

Force Field Analysis

In an interdependent situation, synergy is particularly powerful in dealing with negative forces that work against growth and change. Sociologist Kurt Lewin developed a "Force Field Analysis" model in which he described any current level of performance or being as a state of equilibrium between the driving forces that encourage upward movement and the restraining forces that discourage it.