Ascending in August 2026 - The Game of the Month

Ascending in August 2026 - Game of the Month to strengthen RYD Growth Habits
Theme: Strengthening Gear 3 Consciousness for Business Mastery 

Dear peaceful warriors on our shared good to great journey to raise human consciousness from Fear to Love by leading ourselves from Fear to Love using Business as our playground,

In July, we strengthened our Gear 1 Consciousness (Agility of Mind) for Personal Mastery by doing Daily / Weekly Creation daily.

It is time to complete Joyful July and start Ascending in August, to strengthen ourselves in Gear 3 Consciousness (Communicating Powerfully in the World of Others) for Business Mastery, in our forever journey from Gear 1 to Gear 5 in upwards spirals of growth, evolution and transformation.

We are playing a game to strengthen Gear 3 Consciousness for Business Mastery in August because we have our EXPAND Event - Nurturing Indian Giants with Verne - in August, and the book of the month is also - Start to Scale by Verne.

Reflect and respond to the following questions to complete Joyful July 2026 and start Ascending in August from 3-Aug-26:

Q1. What outcomes got created as I played the game of Joyful July?
Q2. What is the status of the action I had committed to take as an outcome of the reflection on the June game?
Q3. What are my learnings and insights from playing the game in July and by taking the committed actions?
Q4. What action am I committed to take as an outcome of my learnings?
Q5. How am I feeling as I complete Joyful July to start the game of Ascending in August?

After the above reflection, let's join the August game to continue strengthening ourselves across our 3 growth levers to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Greatness is an outcome of consistency of our Daily Growth Habits.

If we want to lead ourselves from good to great, the structure of success lies in doing our Daily Growth Habits with consistency.

If we want to lead our children from good to great, the structure of success lies in coaching them to do their Daily Growth Habits with consistency.

If we want to lead our businesses from good to great, the structure of success lies in coaching our people to do Daily Business Excellence Growth Habits with consistency.

Daily Morning Huddle is a foundational Daily Business Excellence Growth Habit. It enables the creation and strengthening of a Cohesive, Nurturing, Deep-Learning, Continuously-Improving, Super-Performing Culture. Only with such a culture, can we build Fortune Global 100, Fortune Global 500, Forbes Global 2000 businesses while Having It All.

Daily Morning Huddle Business Excellence Growth Habit is key to creating a culture which is:
1. Cohesive - Share Good News (Personal / Professional) with each other - How are you feeling and what is your Good News?
2. Nurturing - Read the Foundation (Purpose, Values, BHAG) daily together in the Daily Morning Huddle as a shared Prayer of Gratitude - What is our shared Purpose, Values and Big Hairy Audacious Goal?
3. Deep Learning - The Business Team read the same Book of the Month and share insights daily in the listening of each other - What is your learning from reading the Book of the Month in the last 24 hours? 
4. Continuously Improving - Every team member shares a 2-Second improvement implemented in the last 24 hours captured through a phone camera - before and after the improvement. The most significant improvements are shared in the huddle. - What is your 2-Second improvement in the last 24 hours? 
5. Super Performing - What's your #1 thing to complete in the next 24 hours?, Where are you on your metrics?, What are your Stucks, Questions and is there any support you need to accomplish your Priorities?

​Our August game - Ascending in August - is designed to strengthen us in Gear 3 Consciousness by playing the game of the month on the playground of our business for Business Mastery. The game gifts us with DLCM positive impact.

Here's how we will play Ascending in August to strengthen ourselves in Business Mastery as a way to warm ourselves for our EXPAND Event with Verne (Nurturing Indian Giants):

1. The first step is to choose the track you are playing at - Starter, Champion, Mastery.

Starter Track: Daily Huddle with our L1 with 3 Questions, and cascade this Daily Huddle structure to the last level of leadership so that each team member is in a Daily Huddle.
Q1. What's your #1 thing to complete in the next 24 hours?
​Q2. Where are you on your metrics?
Q3. What are your Stucks, Questions and is there any support you need to accomplish your Priorities?

Champion Track: Daily Huddle with our L1 with 5 Questions, and cascade this Daily Huddle structure to the last level of leadership so that each team member is in a Daily Huddle.
Q1. How are you feeling and what is your Good News?
Q2. What is your learning from reading the Book of the Month in the last 24 hours? (The Book of the Month for August 2026 is Start to Scale by Verne Harnish)
Q3. What's your #1 thing to complete in the next 24 hours?
​Q4. Where are you on your metrics?
Q5. What are your Stucks, Questions and is there any support you need to accomplish your Priorities?

Mastery Track: Daily Huddle with our L1 with 7 Questions, and cascade this Daily Huddle structure to the last level of leadership so that each team member is in a Daily Huddle.
Q1. How are you feeling and what is your Good News?
Q2. What is our shared Purpose, Values and Big Hairy Audacious Goal? - Reading the Foundation (Purpose, Values, BHAG) daily together as a shared Prayer of Gratitude. What emerged for you today as we read our foundation?
Q3. What is your learning from reading the Book of the Month in the last 24 hours? (The Book of the Month for August 2026 is Start to Scale by Verne Harnish)
Q4. What is your 2-Second improvement in the last 24 hours? (Everyone captures their improvement through a phone camera - before and after the improvement - and uploads in a shared area). The most significant improvements are shared.
Q5. What's your #1 thing to complete in the next 24 hours?
​Q6. Where are you on your metrics?
Q7. What are your Stucks, Questions and is there any support you need to accomplish your Priorities?

2. Update your Daily Status in - RYD Growth Habits Group - using the following format to hold space for each one in our community to do their growth habits. It is in giving that we receive.


Ascending in August
Date: dd-Aug-yy Monday

Number of Team Members who have adopted Daily Huddle: x
Total number of Team Members: y
%age adoption: (x/y)*100

Leadership Depth:
1. ....
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Craft Mastery: 
1. ...
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Business Excellence:
1. Daily Huddle (Starter / Champion / Mastery) Track: <share status of implementation, eg: x out y team members have adopted Daily BE Growth Habit>
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You can include additional habits for Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery and Business Excellence for your own self to design your Growth Habits Game for the month. That is your choice. The August game is to enrol all our team members to adopt the Ascending in August BE Growth Habit of Daily Huddle.

You will self-track, and the winners will be declared based on your self-tracking. Your coaches will support you to track correctly.

Winners are those who have the highest %age adoption and highest number of team members adopting Daily Huddle.

The fun is in playing the game; and growth is in getting back every time we fall off, with joy for being on our good to great journey and with love for our own self.

The game begins on 3-Aug-26.

Let's keep being Love moment to moment (LD), keep being a Student moment to moment (CM), keep being a Space for Massive Positive Impact moment to moment (BE), to joyously lead ourselves, our health, our kids, our relationships, our people and our businesses from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure together along the way.

Loving you,
j.