William Diedrich
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William Frank Diedrich, Spiritual Growth Expert
William Diedrich Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Personal transformation, spirituality, spiritual intelligence, organizational development, leadership
- Best Sellers
- The Road Home: The Journey Beyond The Spiritual Quick Fix
- Career Focus
- Speaker/Author
- Affiliation
- Transformative Leadership Systems, Transformative Press
William Frank Diedrich is a speaker, executive coach, group facilitator, and the author of three books. Bill lives in East Lansing, Michigan with his wife and youngest daughter. He has three children ages 35, 33, and 8.
Bill frequently speaks at new thought churches and offers workshops on Moving Beyond Blaming, Allowing Propserity, and Spiritual Intelligence. He teaches spiritually intelligent leadership through his speaking, consulting, and coaching at banks, schools, manufacturing companies, government agencies, and associations. He assists people in rising above conflict and confusion and other ego driven difficulties to rising up to personal responsibility, compassion for others, and clarity. Specifically Bill coaches CEO's, other executives, and leadership teams to help them become more effective.
Bill offers a free monthly e-newsletter entitled Transformation Times. Topics are related to leadership and spirituality. He offers online classes in leadership, prosperity and creating an ideal relationship.
Bill is a teacher. A teacher is one who seeks the best in each student and draws it out. A teacher makes use of the wisdom already found within the students. Besides inspiring transformation, the best part for Bill is the learning he receives from the people he works with.
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Managing Your Ego At Work
Ego is your self image. It is how you see yourself in relation to others and the world. Ego also includes the compulsion we feel to defend the image. The ego is not real. It is a concept, an idea. We have these thoughts and urges within us and we call it "ego". For something that is not real, the ego certainly gives us a lot of problems. The ego's role is to form and to protect the images you have of yourself. If you think you are a "good manager", then you will fight to protect that image whenever it seems threatened. If someone criticizes you, you will feel defensive.
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From Lack to Abundance
What is lack? Lack is you noticing that you don’t have what you want. It is the belief that you will be okay if and when you receive what you want. Lack is a focus on the absence of what you want. Affirming. praying, and visualizing are made less effective when we offer them from a place of lack. If we are affirming or praying to get something, and we are feeling a desperate need for this something, our energy is actually calling forth more lack. The Universe is exact. Feelings of lack create lack. Feelings of abundance and gratitude create abundance and more to be thankful for.
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Training Our Brains for Success
Changing our thoughts from a predominantly negative to a predominantly positive orientation has physical implications. According to brain research expert, Dr. Pat Wolfe in Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice, the brain is the only organ that sculpts itself. Our experience becomes our physiology. Several studies have shown there to be actual structural changes in the brain as a result of learning experiences.
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Polarization
To polarize is to divide into sharply opposing groups or sides. We sometimes see polarization as a problem, for example in politics. People have opposing views in the areas of gun control, abortion, gay marriage, and health care. The polarity that we see is not a problem once you understand that polarity is life on earth.
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Polarization
To polarize is to divide into sharply opposing groups or sides. We sometimes see polarization as a problem, for example in politics. People have opposing views in the areas of gun control, abortion, gay marriage, and health care. The polarity that we see is not a problem once you understand that polarity is life on earth.
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Why We Need a Vision
Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner need a vision. I'm sure they both have ideas about where they want to lead, but there is no joint vision. Any organization, whether it is a small shop with three staff members, or a country of 300 million, must be vision-driven if it is to succeed. If we don't ask ourselves the question: "What do we want to come of this?" and answer that question, we are nowhere. Is it possible that a large, diverse group of people could agree on a vision? I believe it is.
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The Road Home
I think about God every day. For many years concepts like God and spirituality rested on the periphery of my life. They were scenery that I could admire now and then. I was not really on a spiritual path, a way home to my Source. I was a spiritual tourist, an interested sightseer, spending a little time here and there, but always returning to my “real” life. Eventually real life became uncomfortable, and I looked to spiritual teachings as a tool-- something I could use to get the things I wanted and needed. Life became more uncomfortable. Then I began to awaken.
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The Egoless Leader
Great leadership is about power, yet it is not about power over others. The power of a great leader is to create an environment where others are empowered to offer their best. This is not working through people where others become extensions of you, the leader. This is dedicating yourself to the growth and development of others. Great leadership is service to others. Service to others, if it is to be effective, must be egoless. In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins discusses the leaders of great companies.
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Clear Expectations
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.” Dennis Wholey Everyone has expectations. We expect people to treat us a certain way. As leaders we expect people to perform well and behave well. If you are a leader, it is your job to be powerful. If you're up to it, you have the potential to increase the well-being for yourself and for others by communicating clear expectations. Expectations are not demands.
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Forgiveness is Logical
Forgiveness is logical. It isn't something that you should do. It is a practice that makes sense. When you forgive you improve your well-being and influence others to improve theirs. When you forgive you empower yourself. Forgiveness is a gift that you give to yourself and to the world.
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Feeling Naked
I feel naked. As I am writing this I am actually wearing clothes. It’s thirty degrees outside. I just published my first novel—Human Adulthood: A Spiritual Romance. I have written and published four non-fiction books. There certainly is a level of vulnerability with those, especially since I disclose quite a bit about myself. Fiction is different.
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think
"...the servant views any problem in the world as in here, inside one's self, not out there. And if a flaw in the world is to be remedied, to the servant, the process of change starts in here, in the servant, not out there."nfrom Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf Every waking moment of ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from William Diedrich
"For many years concepts like God and spirituality rested on the periphery of my life. They were scenery that I could admire now and then. I was a spiritual tourist, an interested sightseer, spending a little time here and there, but always returning to my "real" life. Eventually real life became uncomfortable, and I looked to spiritual teachings as a tool - something I could use to get the things I wanted and needed. Life became more uncomfortable. Then I began to awaken. "" I cannot tell you what you should do. I can only share my experiences knowing that, if you are willing, they will lead you deeper into your own inner landscape. This is where the road home begins." Quotes from The Road Home: The Journey Beyond The Spiritual Quick Fix.
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To learn about my background and spiritual path, read The Road Home: The Journey Beyond The Spiritual Quick Fix. Dr. Wayne Dyer said about this book--"I loved this book's courageous honesty and shimmering passion."
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New CD and Mp3! The Leader's Edge: Three Keys to Exceptional Leadership
learn the three keys and enhance your ability to be the presence of leadership.
Only $ 12 USD at http://intelligentspirit.com
Beginning on October 20, 2008. Allowing Prosperity This is a free online class offered to anyone who purchases the book, 30 Days to Prosperity. It runs ten weeks and allows for asking questions by e-mail. Read more at http://intelligentspirit.com/online.html
Creating Your Ideal Relationship is a ten week class for singles who want to connect with a partner and for people already in relationships who want to enhance what they have. The cost is $ 24.95 plus purchase of the book, The Road Home (11.97). Details are at http://intelligentspirit.com/online.html Begins October 20.
The Leaders' Edge Online Leadership Development Class is a ten week class for all types of leaders at all levels. It is an approach that is practical, spiritual, systemic, and psychological. The cost is 39.95 plus purchase of the book, Beyond Blaming. Register at http://noblaming.com Begins October 20.