Chief Wow Officer is not just a fancy name in a shallow attempt to impress the world. It's a serious commitment. Chief Wow Officer is not what you are, it's an intention:
Chief Wow Officers use their Passion & Talent to make the World a little Better & themselves a lot Happier:
Chief Officer…
Means you take charge, you are in the lead and you take full responsibility for creating Wow. Even if you’re not formally a chief officer.
Wow…
Is everything that takes our breath away, makes our eyes sparkle and gets our hearts beat a little faster.
AND
Lets us use our passion and talents
AND
Helps to make the world a little (or a lot) better
How to become a Chief Wow Officer?
Basically you need do do three things: 1. change your mindset 2. get an attitude 3. start taking action.
We created a (not so) secret formula:
🧠 Mindset x 😎 Attitude x 💪 Action = 💥 Wow
Mindset
Mindset is probably the most important element in our formula. The way you perceive the world and attach meaning to everything that happens makes all the difference in your life and in what you will accomplish. Let’s look at alle the elements that are of importance.
Growth vs Fixed Mindset
According to psychologist Carol Dewck people either have a growth mindset OR a fixed mindset.
In a fixed mindset you believe you are who you are, and there is not much you can do about it. Fixed People say: I can’t do this (ever).
In a growth mindset you believe you can allways keep growing and learning. Growth People say: I can’t do this yet.
Challenge your beliefs
Children live in a world of endless possibilities, adults live in ‘Reality’. Children believe anything is possible, adults believe (almost) nothing is possible. Be aware that reality is nothing more then the sum of our own experiences and is filled with many assumptions that might or might not be true. Challenge your own beliefs to wow the world.
Everything is Figureoutable
Chief Wow Officers believe that everything is figureoutable (brilliant book bij Marie Forleo). It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to do something yet, you are able to figure it out. This belief prevent us from quitting to soon, because we don’t know how, or we don’t oversee the steps.
Failure=learning
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Chief Wow Officers believe that failure is just an essential step on the road to wow. When a child learns to walk, she falls a thousand times and she uses the falling to improve.
When an adult falls, he says: this is probably not for me. Let’s quit.
🧠 Mindset x 😎 Attitude x 💪 Action = 💥 Wow
Attitude
Attitude is the second part of our secret formula (mindset*attitude*action=wow). It contains of three elements: curiosity, fearlessness and disobedience.
Curious
We are all born curious. Most people lose it when they grow up. Chief Wow Officers stay curious. There is allways something new to discover and something new to learn on their path to wow.
Fearless
The biggest human fear is being rejected by the group. While this made sense in prehistoric times (being abandoned meant getting eaten by a tiger) it is less usefull now.
Because of this fear, people conform to the group and avoid being different. Chief Wow Officers might feel this fear too, but they don’t let it restrict them.
Disobedient
Disobedience might seem a negative thing, but not doing what others tell you to do, is in some cases a very good choice. Chief Wow Officers, do listen to others, but then draw their own plan, following their own judgement and intuition.
🧠 Mindset x 😎 Attitude x 💪 Action = 💥 Wow
Action
Action is the third part of our equasion. Chief Wow Officers are action oriented. They start doing as soon as possible. Even if they don’t know all the steps ahead, they take the first one asap.
Thinking vs doing
Most people tend to overthink things. Chief Wow Officers don’t. They start doing as soon as possible, even if it’s just a tiny little first step. They learn from doing (action learning) and adjust their nest steps accordingly. They think along the way.
Procrastination
Most people tend to procrastinate: I’ll start tomorrow. Chief Wow Officers know that tomorrow never comes (there will allways be a new tomorrow.) The best time to start was 10 years ago, the second best time (the only time) is Now! Just take the smallest step possible and do it now.
A million small steps
Chief Wow Officers realise that any giant leap actually consists of a million small steps. So they start taking small steps and keep on doing that untill they reach their goal.
Daily habits
Chief Wow Officers work on their Wow daily. They make it a habit. Because if they don’t do that, there will always be something that seems to be more urgent.
Chief Wow Officers Checklist:
Make it official
If you are serious about changing your life for the better, then you have to make it official. You can do that in our business card ceremony:
Now you signed a contract with yourself: you’re officially a Chief Wow Officer
But beware: this is a serious commitment: you’ll have to live up to the promise.
Watch the Ted-Talk
Watch the introduction of Chief Wow Officers at TEDx Dordrecht. The video registration wasn’t “wow” (especially the sound), but once you get over that, you’ll be fine (and -hopefully- inspired!