Category Archives: Discipline

Jun 27 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Imagination, Leadership

The Competitive Advantage of Speed and Response

Response and speed will be the competitive advantages the great enterprises seek in the decades to come.

You can own any market with a simple 3 step formula:

1). Find the market.

2). Identify the market’s needs.

3). Respond with a remedy.

Could it be more simple?

Of course your remedy response is the most courageous step you’ll have to take, but he who can boldly take these three steps the fastest wins in the marketplace.

And after you respond with a remedy to the need – keep listening.

We love when our favorite bands and businesses actually play the music we requests.

 

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Jun 25 2012
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Discipline, Focus

3

What if you committed to doing/accomplishing 3 big things today?

This could include: making the hard call, apologizing, overcoming a fear, offering to serve, starting a blog, buying the domain for your idea, etc.

What if?

And what if you shared your big 3 someone? What if you had accountability?

What if you repeated this daily? Even on days off. Big 3 doesn’t always have to mean business.

What if?

I bet 30 days from now, after you’ve made 90 big leaps in just 720 hours, you wouldn’t have it any other way.

Vamonos.

 

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Jun 21 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination

Atrophy

Atrophy: A wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is a decrease in muscle mass, often due to extended immobility.

Planes diminish in the hanger.

Ships peter out in the harbor.

Use what you’ve got. Fly. Sail.

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Jun 19 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination

The Busy Badge

If there is a social badge we’ve adopted in nearly every circle, it’s the badge of busy-ness.

We tell our wives how busy we are. We tell our church group. We tell our confidants. We tell strangers at cocktail parties.

Newsflash – this is how it should be. We should all be doing, creating, learning, serving, and finding. Efficiently.

The problem arrives when we flash our badge of busy-ness to create to the illusion we’re being efficient.

Busy lives are dim.

Efficient lives shine.

Trading busy-ness for efficiency is going to require trading what you like to do for what you should be doing.

Make the trade.

Efficiency gets us closer to fulfillment. Fulfillment of goals and fulfilment of dreams. I think that’s what we’re all after…at least I am.

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Jun 18 2012
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Business, Change The World, Discipline, Focus

Skyscraping

If you’re going to be building a skyscraper career, be sure that you obsess over the foundation.

We applaud those that scrape the sky, but it’s the foundation that makes the scraping of the heavens possible.

The only way you will be able to go 100 floors high is if you are well founded 10 floors deep.

And don’t become jaded by others that are skyscraping in their careers. Stay with your foundation. Pour it and build it pillar by pillar. Live there for weeks, months, or years if you have to.

The most important part of your skyscraper will not be what is seen but what is unseen.

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