Before you skip this installment (assuming its about better eating)- for the next five minutes let’s agree that G.I. stands for Good Intentions (not Glycemic Index!). What would change in your life if you acted quickly and decisively on every Good Intention? That’s true Low G.I. Living.

All too often we go through life with a long list of things we are going to do ’some time’. Things that what we tell ourselves are ‘important’, yet for some unknown reason, not important enough to do right now or to even make concrete plans to do later. When we allow ourselves to live with ‘good’ intentions we experience mediocrity, excuses and most of all guilt.

People say ‘it’s the thought that counts’. It’s not true. It’s the action that counts. I’m a big believer in thinking… but at the end of the day, its value is measured by the quality of the actions it results in.

If you’re still not convinced then recall the last time you finally did something you’d been meaning to do for a while, something you told yourself was important but didn’t follow through on for some time. When you did it, how did it feel? I can almost guarantee it felt great, maybe even a sense of relief came with it. Because you stopped letting yourself down.

Why not take five more minutes right now to search the periphery of your thinking and dig up those things you’ve allowed to stagnate with good intentions. Write a list. What can you do today to follow through or at the least get started.

A little action is worth more than the biggest good intention.

What a dream team you’d have if everyone on your team was a leader. Not just the person ‘in charge’. Everyone. And by ‘leader’ I don’t mean job title, a swanky office, or the where the buck actually stops. I simply mean the sort of team where everyone takes responsibility, works like it’s their own business, stays ahead of the game, and multiplies themselves by taking people with them on the journey.

Almost everyone starts out as a ‘worker’ on a team (and just quietly, most of those who jump straight into leadership roles are really just workers with responsibility). But I’ve noticed people don’t stay workers forever.

Over time, workers become one of three things-

1. Leaders. They blaze a trail. Run with the vision like it’s their own (because it is). Their impact is measured not by personal performance but by a mass of momentum in others.

2. Leasers. Mercenaries in the workplace, they do what they’re paid to do. It’s about money, benefits, maximised comfort and flexibility, minimised challenge and responsibility. The bulk of many corporate teams.

3. Leavers. Rather than step up or step back, they step aside. And when they leave, they do not leave a hole. Except perhaps in the bottom line.

• So who are you building on? Leaders, leasers or leavers.
• Have you got the courage to lead leaders?
• Don’t forget… you get what you focus on (and reward!)