A Wizard Goes With the Flow!

I am in Chicago O'Hare airport on my way to Winnipeg, MB for a speaking engagement. The flight here from Rochester could have potentially been the worst flight of my life. Not turbulence, not bad food, but a toddler kicking and screaming the whole way. And I mean, literally kicking....the back of my seat.

I really had to use my Wizard Training. I used every mantra in my book! I go with the flow. Everything happens for a reason and that reason is here to serve me. On and on I went.

And then something occurred to me that made me unbelievably happy and helped me cope the rest of the trip. At least I'm not the mother!!!

See? There is always a silver lining!

A Wizard Always Finds or Creates a Way!

I just returned from a four-day, jam-packed trip to Virginia. On the way home, we spent the night in Baltimore. Leaving Tuesday morning, we knew we had to make it home by 6pm as we had dinner reservations with friends that we really didn't want to miss. So we thought leaving by 10:30 would give us plenty of time. (It's a 6-hour trip)

Well besides the inevitable construction delays that always slow us down, we got lost coming out of Baltimore. As we made many wrong turns and expressways just seemed to end without warning (since when do you have Rt. 695 South, North, East and West???), we got more and more frustrated as we felt our window of time slipping away.

We DID stop to ask for directions but that just got us turned around more. That was when I remembered that I had everything in the car to get on the Internet and look at Google Maps. Once I did that, we figured out exactly where we were and we corrected course and thankfully, got home by 6pm!

The lesson in all of this is that we were using whatever was available to us to accomplish our goal. We had 1) maps, 2) stopped to ask for directions, 3) used the Internet in the car until we got headed back in the right direction. And if I didn't have my laptop, I would have phoned a friend who could have accessed the Internet for us.

A Wizard always finds or creates a way!

A Wizard by any other name...

1. One who practices magic; a sorcerer or magician.
2. A skilled or clever person: a wizard at math.
3. A sage (a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom that comes with age and experience)

Of all these definitions, I think I like #3 the best. I leave the magic and miracles up to the Universe. But mentoring, wisdom, spirituality and experience, these are qualities I aspire to.

And I believe the only way to gain these are to be open-minded and a lifelong learner. Most people think they are open-minded. But most of what they call learning is just reinforcing what they already know. When is the last time you really learned and accepted something new?

Welcome to The DISC Wizard's Blog!

I'm so happy you're here. This blog has taken a little longer than expected to be created but now my vision is clear and the insights will be spilling out all over this blog. Just to clarify a bit for those who don't know what the heck is The DISC Wizard.

Simply put, DISC is an online assessment that I use with my clients to help them understand the behavior of job candidates, employees, managers, etc. DISC stands for Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance. And every person can be measured on a scale of 100% in each of these four categories.

For those of you who know DISC, I am:

74% Dominance
100% Influence
5% Steadiness
51% Compliance

And while most people know what a Wizard is from books and movies like "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" or even "The Wizard of Oz", I hope to bring you insights into your own behavior (why you do what you do) that will help you see the world in a different, more peaceful, empowering, magical way!