It's deep in the summer, and we're making a SIGNIFICANT ANNOUNCEMENT about the program...

Here's a quick, 10-minute episode to update you on what's happening with the IdeaCharger team and what to expect from us over the next few weeks. 

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Find the Full Show Notes Post at www.IdeaCharger.com/Episode21

"We become the average of the five people with whom we spend the most time."

- Attributed to so many different people on the internet, let's just accept this as FACT, shall we?

A couple of years ago, I committed to meet with a group of colleagues who are all speakers, facilitators, and experts of various topics on a monthly basis.  While our businesses were, by trade, quite similar, how we each go about running them varies somewhat.  Each of us is at a different stage of maturity with our business (some might argue in general as well)...but committing to get together regularly and hold each other accountable for progress has proven a worthwhile exercise. Over these last two years, we have seen the ups and downs of one another's practices, and been there to lend support, friendship, ideas and sometimes just a listening ear.

One of the members of my group is a sales leadership consultant, speaker and fellow podcaster, Jim Jacobus.  In fact, it was Jim who challenged the members of our group to each launch a podcast of our own....so I owe him a THANK YOU on behalf of each of the listeners of the Success Charger Podcast for his encouragement for me to even launch the show in the first place.

I am a listener of Jim's Podcast, and in a 4-part series he started on November 19th, 2015, he has again encouraged me to raise the bar.

Sometimes it is just better to send you to the source, than try to explain what I learned for myself.  My challenge to you this week is to download and listen to the four-episode series Jim produced on the "Four Questions You Should Ask Yourself Each Year".

Here are the links to the episodes on Jim's Podcast, and I hope you'll find them as helpful as I did.  (HINT:  If you are short on time and just want to cut to the chase, he does a nice, albeit brief, recap on the fourth episode....but I'd recommend listening to all four.  They are about 20 or so minutes each.)

You can also find these on iTunes Podcasts: Search for "In The Sales Arena" or via this link (Epsiodes 64-67)

1. Four Questions to Ask Yourself
2. What is Not Working for You and How Can You Make It Start Working?
3. What New Thing Do You Want To Do In 2016?
4. What Are You Going to do in 2016 That is BIG?

Listen with the links above, download them for that trip to the in-laws, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Michael Sunnarborg is an Amazon top-selling author with a number of books under his belt.  His latest, entitled "The White Box Club" launches on November 6, 2015. This week, Scott caught up with Michael on Blab (Click here for the unedited, full recording of the interview) to discuss just what exactly The White Box Club is all about, how you become a member, and why every member's ultimate goal is the get OUT of the club!

QUOTE: "Sometimes you just don't know who you are until someone shows you." - Michael Sunnarborg

BOOKS**:

• Michael's Amazon Author Page (w/ links and more for ALL of his titles)
• Free Agent Nation by Dan Pink

           **These are affiliate links, but it doesn't add a penny to your cost!

MEETUPS:

• The White Box Club MeetUps (Twin Cities, MN)
  
  

EPISODE TAKE AWAYS: 

• Three Steps to Balance: 1) Awareness 2)Alignment 3) Activation
• There is power in shared experiences, especially in times of transition
• Your resilience is defined not by what happens, but how you react to it!
• Sometimes giving yourself a "white box' is honoring yourself.

CHALLENGES:

• Keep the pedal to the metal and finish 2015 STRONG...you have 60 days left - that is 1/6 of the year! It is time to build massive momentum for 2016 and you, Success Charger, are about to catapult past your biggest competitors!
• If you are in transition, seek out or CREATE your own White Box Club Meetup
• Become keenly aware of your current situation (for example, on the career front); Next, ask yourself (and honestly answer) if you are in alignment with what is truly of value to you; Finally, take ACTION to reinforce or correct the course of action you are currently on.
• Pick up a copy of The White Box Club on November 6th (Link above) for yourself or someone you know.

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