Category Archives: Discipline

Apr 02 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

THE Green Jacket

A tradition unlike any other begins this week. The Masters. Golf’s quest for THE green jacket.
A few thoughts on THE green jackets we all should be in pursuit of and that some of us have won/earned.
  • Even though you’ve won the green jacket before it doesn’t guarantee another win in today’s competition.
  • Rarely does hole 72 determine who gets the green jacket. How was your sand play, iron play, and chipping holes 1-71?
  • This year’s competition field will be better, sharper, more focused, and younger than last years. Not to mention they probably want the green jacket more than they did last year too. This is no time for “been there done that.”
  • Every past green jacket winner, typically, has one bite of wisdom. “Putt well.” Romance in the small leads to success in the big picture.
  • If you don’t have a green jacket you’re in pursuit of – find one or dream one. Then master the route to it. Hint: The Muse already knows your seam measurements before your mastering quest begins.
When it comes to your trophies, you can show them off and you can dust them off, but their history and their shine doesn’t have much say when you tee off today.
Every year during this week I’m reminded of how the silent game of golf screams this is how life/business/etc. really is.
Godspeed in your green jacket voyage.
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Mar 30 2012
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Behind The Scenes

We can see and hear who has bloodied their fingers for years in the guitar solo scene.

We can see who practiced free throws in the 4th quarter scene.

We can see who connected, who prospected, and who studied the market in the closing the sale scene.

The solo perfected scene, the free throw made scene, and the closing the sale scene only can happen because of what has happened behind them.

The same goes for the missed solo, missed free throw, and the sale fail. These guys have predecessors too.

We all want to star the scene, but the limelight tends to find those who have courted their art for years in the dim light.

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Mar 28 2012
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The Ins & Outs of Control

At some point we will realize “we” have no control over the stock market, what Google will do next, why our neighbor won’t mow his yard, or even the election.

However, we can control our thoughts, our dreams, our ideas, our actions, and even our reactions.

Grasping the idea that these things can be held and controlled should lead us to forming them well, protecting them better, and sharing them in the right places – with the right people.

We call those wanderers who are constantly jaded in managing the control panels of the world they think they can maneuver. These guys get out of bed, jump on to the hamster wheel, and stay on until bedtime.

We call those leaders who are in constant pursuit of making what is inside of them physical in this world. These guys constantly refine, define, and disect the controllable.

What you can’t control doesn’t deserve an ounce of your thinking. What you can control deserves every ounce of your being.

And while we’re on it, the concept that the weight of the world can fit on your shoulders is a misnomer.

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Mar 27 2012
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Soup

Put this in your pocket.

  • There will be sleepless nights and there will be “why go to sleep?” nights.
  • There will be setbacks and there will be championships.
  • There will be tough decisions and there will good/not so good that follows.
  • There will be risk and there will be reward.
  • And on and on and on.

But don’t separate all of these facts from one another. Appreciate them all for what they are. Allow them to mix and simmer.

Business is soupy.

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Mar 26 2012
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Memo

3-26-12

9:05 AM CST

To Whom It May Concern (Everyone):

Don’t stop believing.

 

 

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