The Kolbe A index gives you a crystal-clear view of your strengths, and helps you hire your perfect complement.
My definition of success is the freedom to be yourself.
Kathy Kolbe
In 2011, I was working 80-hour weeks.
I roared through the world with my head down, checking my To-Do list, phone, and planner. My brain was awash in cortisol and adrenaline. All I focused on was what was next.
Trying to Do It All
I cringe whenever I think about everything I missed during that time: beauty, fun, adventure, wonder, rest, calm, delight. Love.
I was a woman on a mission to extricate myself from debt, heartache, and an overwhelming sadness that threatened to pull me beneath waves of grief. I hardly recognized myself, but I didn’t stop to think about just how far I had drifted from who I truly was.
Everything felt wildly out of control, and I resigned myself to believing this would simply be how I would live.
“Just get through today,” I said to myself as if I were living out a strange jail sentence, trapped behind bars of my own making.
Enter: The Kolbe A Index
When a business coach introduced me to the Kolbe A Index, I immediately, silently, groaned. “Great, another assessment,” I thought to myself.
But I took it.
As I reviewed my results and came to understand exactly what it means to have the keys to how one is wired to take action, I could feel something creeping into my soul and heart that was new—optimism.
The Kolbe A index revealed what my instinctual strengths are, and I learned how I best get things done when I am free to be myself.
One’s Kolbe A index results uncover the root of our success. With our results, we can learn exactly what we should be leaning into MORE and what we should be delegating entirely.
With this information in hand, I began to rethink all the tasks I was doing. I was spending 80% of my day working against the current, swimming upstream with enormous, draining, mind-numbing effort.
White-knuckling with shallow breathing through all of it.
Getting It All Done, In Far Less Time
I immediately went on a quest to hire an operations manager, and when I had narrowed the list of candidates, I asked each applicant to take the Kolbe A index assessment as well. And then I hired a woman whose profile was the exact opposite of mine—an operations and systems champion who loved and excelled at doing all the things that melted my brain and zapped my energy.
If a task was not in alignment with how I was wired, I got it off my plate and gave it to my operations manager. I began noticing how my focus was returning as well as my sense of self and lightness of being.
I noticed that at the end of the day, I had energy to spare and felt accomplished and solid.
Within six months, I had begun working 4-day weeks. I also quadrupled my income.
Free to do what I loved and what was in flow for me meant I could focus on marketing to ideal clients, negotiating winning contracts, and advocating for client success. All the things I am insanely great at doing. All the things that bring the enterprise its biggest financial returns.
Knowing my Kolbe A results was liberation on steroids. I plowed my financial success back into my community, giving to nonprofits in my hometown. I had time to serve on nonprofit boards and committees as well as provide gratis strategic guidance to executive directors who could not afford personal development and leadership training.
I had reclaimed my essential nature, my true self.
We do not have to yoke ourselves to the plows of misery. We can learn strategies and actionable information to do more of what we love, do more of what we excel at doing. We can release what is not us and set ourselves free.
We can amplify our joy, success, and impact.
Learn Your Kolbe A Results
If you’d like to learn more, go to Kolbe.com and take the Kolbe A index (not an affiliate link).
I am a Kolbe Certified Consultant and as a gift to my subscribers, I will give you a free, 30-minute consultation (not a sales pitch). I will review your Kolbe results with you so that you can leverage the information to your greatest advantage. My only ask is that you pay it forward and give a donation in any amount to your favorite nonprofit, charity, or cause.
Simply contact me to request your free session. I look forward to hearing from you!
