Continual Life Shift & the Power of Giving
with Dave Rogers & Masami Sato

Mazliza: Hello. Good evening. I’m Mazliza Othman, your host for today. Today’s 14 June. Welcome to the Continual Shift teleseminar. My guests for this evening are Dave Rogers and Masami Sato. I’m not sure if Dave has already dialed in. Dave, are you here?

OK. So Dave is going to talk about the wheel of work and the five elements and how each element could contribute to your success and what you need to do in order to improve your skills and fully utilized your abilities in order to achieve your goals.

And later on, Masami is going to join us and she’s going to talk about the power of giving. And she is also going to talk about the Buy 1 Give 1 project which partners businesses and charities.

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Okay.... Dave is still not here.

Dave: Yes, he is.

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Dave: Hello...! Good evening.

Mazliza: Hello.

Dave: Hello. How are you?

Mazliza: How are you, Dave? I’m sorry. I couldn’t hear you. Everybody else can hear you. Strange.

Dave: Fantastic.

Mazliza: OK... so that now we can hear each other... Can we start with you telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

Dave: OK... well, my name is Dave Rogers and I’m originally from Canada. And for about 17 years I was in the finance industry. I used to work as a corporate financier in Tokyo, in the year 1986 to about 1994. And then I shifted to being a bond trader – into financial bonds, Asian bonds in Hong Kong, working for one of the largest French bank. And then in 2001, I decided to semi retire and take some time off to be a house husband. And after that I met some people and I guess I was semi-retired for about 3 months, and then I started some businesses. And they.... many of those businesses are around the world and I get a chance to travel around the world, working with people developing businesses. And I was looking for ways to help people make more money so that they can give it to various causes and make a difference in their lives.

Mazliza: OK, great. Now let’s move on to the focus of the teleseminar. Can you tell us what continual... continual life shift means?

Dave: Well, the concept of continual shift comes from this idea that in life we’re going to be shifting a lot. And a lot of shift happens in our life. In fact, we joke about make shift happens because in our life shift will happen.

And so when we get a greater awareness that when things are happening in our lives, happening in our businesses, happening in our family, happening all around us... We have a choice, actually, to look at it with a whole lot of happiness, a whole lot of fear, a whole lot of anger, or we actually have a choice to may be look at it differently.

And what’s fascinating about it is that once we have that awareness to be able to shift, the ability, the tool, the technique, our responses can totally free us from many of the things that tend to control us.

So we put together a program called "The Continuous Shift" program developing some techniques in the work place. And some of these techniques are things like leadership and creativity and various skills development awareness, time management, and mentoring, communication and branding. And... and these are essential items if you’re going to do... if you’re going to be successful in the workplace.

And I guess since many people would like to be more successful, whether you’re running your own business, or whether you’re starting your own business, or whether you’re working for somebody else.

The key components in the continual shift program allow you to perform better, get better results, be more effective, more efficient, and therefore, hopefully, even if you’re working for someone, you’ll find ways to make more money.

Mazliza: OK. You talked about things like communications and leadership and so on. So that’s part of the wheel of work. Right?

Dave: Correct.

Mazliza: So could you explain how the Wheel of Work works? Well...

Dave: Well, The Wheel of Work is actually... if you were just to simply... if people would just draw a wheel right now, and you were to use the middle to be the zero point, and out of your circle with your hand, you can start giving yourself a grade or marks on leadership, for instance.

If you were to give yourself a rating for leadership, are you a zero, which is really horrible. Or are you a 10, which is one of the greatest leaders that you might know. Or are you a 5 or 6?

And once you’ve given yourself a score, you then have a set point where you are today. Your current point. And what’s great is then you can start really being strategic, being focus, being clear, on where you can improve.

And unless you actually set that stake in the ground, it’s pretty hard to say, well, how to become an even better leader? And once you start asking how to become an even better leader, it’s amazing how the mind would start figuring out some ways, whether it’s going to be some reading, whether it’s going to get some mentoring, whether it’s going to be learning how to become a better speaker. It’s all these strategies that then become clear that we want to get better.

Mazliza: OK. So there are 8 elements of the Wheel of Work. And if you have to narrow it down to 3 most important elements, what would they be?

Dave: Well actually, it’s not the most important elements. It’s more so how your career shifts, as you work shifts, as your life shifts, then different ones will come into play at different times. That’s more the reason you have, if you look at it as a Wheel of Work, and you decide, say... that in the next month or so to focus on leadership.

Let’s take it to the extreme and everything that you’re doing about leadership, everything you focus on is on leadership. In that month you might become a good leader. Yet perhaps you’ve forgotten about something else. May be you’ve forgotten about your health and wellness. And guess what? If you’re not very fit, if you’re not very healthy, it eventually will catch up to you. You can’t be a good leader.

So there’s no telling what dynamic balance that comes into play. Whenever we focus on something, we tend to be very good at it.

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