Whatever your role within an organization, "The 100 Percent Factor" will give you fresh perspectives on ordinary concepts and ideas to help create a new attitude about the world of work, and the world outside of work. By supporting employees in bringing 100 percent of themselves to work, employers can expect at least 100 percent return on their investment. By examining and then producing their own 100 percent with each task or project, employees will step into their personal responsibility. This book guarantees no answers, but provides stories, analogies, and new perspectives - and new questions - that will inspire the reader to action in making a difference both inside and outside the workplace.

The 100% Factor: Living Your Capacity

Self-Help

Jodee Bock

Motivational

Bock's Office Publishing

Have you ever considered the language of an invitation you receive to a wedding or formal event? Traditionally those invitations will request the honor of your presence and often, if you think hard about it, your presence would be the best present you could give. How do you typically show up to events in your own life? Do you consider the possibility that each day is a brand new present, wrapped up especially for you by the greatest, grandest you you could possibly become? Would that change the story you tell about yourself and your life? Because every day you are telling that story, not only in the language you use, but also in the way you present yourself and the energy you bring with you. Whether you’re aware of that or not, you tend to live into that story. When you discover that every decision you’ve made has brought you to the exact place you need to be, you start looking at your life differently. Instead of being a victim of your past, you begin to see that all signs are leading to the greatest and grandest version of you: it all depends upon the story you tell. Is it your history/herstory – what really happened – or is it what you say about what happened? We see our lives through our own eyes, and that perspective shapes our perception. The ideas in this book will allow you to take a look at the events of your life and make some decisions about the future you choose to live into. You will find that there are random pages throughout the book that are set up for you to share your own story, thought, idea, or information in order to customize this book for yourself or as a gift to someone else. Wouldn’t it be great to receive a book from someone else with the giver’s own thoughts interspersed? It’s a great way to share a little piece of yourself with someone who means a lot to you. Another fun way to utilize the book is to think for a moment about a challenge you are facing or an inspiration you are wanting to discover. Open the book and randomly choose one of the entries. More often than not you will find something that will support you or challenge you (in a good way!) right where you are. I am hopeful that you will choose to accept the invitation this book offers to take a look at the happenings of your life as an observer. The story is yours, and everything you’ve experienced has brought you to exactly where you find yourself right now – which is exactly where you are supposed to be. The honor of your presence is requested – by you, to you!

Own Your Story: The Invitation

Bock, Jodee

Religion & Spirituality

The popular belief is that achieving goals gives us external glory when what really compels us (instead of motivates us) is gratitude, not glory. Internal inspiration has far more long-term effects than external motivation. The huge secret is that when you stop looking for external validation, it comes. The glory then is seen as a statement of what is instead of a measurement of worthiness. When you seek outside yourself for the glory you anticipate receiving, you are dependent upon others – diverse others, with various skills and challenges themselves – to present you with their version of whatever trophy you are seeking. If you lead your life in pursuit of others’ permission or approval or support or direction, you will never know which is your own true life, nor who you were created to become. Instead, determine for yourself which goals will allow you to achieve the feeling of accomplishment you desire deep down. Just point yourself in the direction of your dream and start walking. Take in the entire picture, not just the prize you set your eyes on. When you realize that the only response necessary for whatever you are going through is unconditional gratitude, you will see that, like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, you’ve had what you were searching for all along. So use the ideas in this book as signposts for you to build your own discernment muscles. Read, contemplate, ponder, disagree, debate, share, reflect and decide which ideas you’ll discard and which you’ll keep – either for now or for someday in the near future. View the world and your place in it as an experiment in happiness and contentment and see what you can do each day to live into that objective. Consider taking yourself out of your own story as you read the thoughts in this book. If you can observe yourself from a different vantage point and allow the ideas you read to give you a new perspective, you may find that you are pursuing goals from a place of inspiration instead of from an external motivation. We all need a bit of each, but if you are always doing your life instead of really living and being in it, you will be an observer instead of a true participant. Allow your goals to bring you to the place of true inner glory and you will really get that wherever you are is exactly where you are supposed to be.

Own Your Story: Goals to Glory

Personal Transformation

Profound questions can provoke action, reduce confusion, and open people up to discovering ideas and possibilities they didn't even know they had already inside themselves. When you ask a profound question - of others or of yourself - you can take a conversation and understanding to a whole new level. There are many ways to use this book. You can read it cover-to-cover. When you're getting ready for a specific conversation, go to the contents and find the area you need. Or just open it randomly and pick a question and hold on to it. Maybe that's exactly what you need at just that moment. As author and consultant Peter Block reminds us: "Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions than seeking practical answers." This little book will give you more than 100 from which to choose to enhance your leadership and communication.

Say What?: 100+ Questions to Ignite Conversation & Spark Dialogue

Business & Money

Bock, Jodee A

Processes & Infrastructure

The theory of the Master Mind Principle is interesting enough; but when this principle is actually put into action and produces new results, that is when people really start to take notice. Insight and new ideas are one thing; actual results are another. 
 This book highlights some of the success stories members of the various Master Mind groups in Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota have experienced directly related to their participation in at least one Think and Grow Rich Master Mind study group.
 The book is titled Inviting Dialogue because it is through the invitation of dialogue the suspension of previous assumptions for the purpose of sharing ideas and learning from each other that new results can be realized.
 With the opportunity to experience true dialogue, as opposed to the more common discussions and debates we experience through our business and even personal communications, the Master Mind groups bring out the best in the members and give them ongoing and regular opportunities to practice the skill of dialogue.
 The beauty of the Master Mind Principle is that it is available to anyone and everyone who seeks for it. The members of the Master Mind groups in this book recognize that their current results are no indication of their future success, and they are utilizing their Master Mind groups to explore new ways of thinking which lead to new results.
 As you read these stories, let them inspire you to follow your own dreams and imagine what can happen for you in your own life as you gather with like-minded individuals to find that compelling WHY in each of your lives.

Inviting Dialogue: Inspiring Stories About the Power of the Master Mind

Brenda Levos