Tag: Growth

Old habits are hard to break

Homeowner flag pole holder
First thought was go to store and buy a new one.

 

Old habits are hard to break.

Often, when you have developed great habits, this is a key strength in the fight against mediocrity.

However, there are times when it’s a ball and chain – holding us back from a better way.

The flagpole holder is broken.

Likely culprit is Hurricane Irma.

The flagpole is closer to being parallel with the ground where before we had it set closer to a 45-degree  angle.

Go to the store to buy a replacement.

Stop.

Stop thinking like that.

Use Amazon and Amazon Prime.

The replacement will be here in 48 hours and took five minutes to order.

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What’s the difference between training and development?

What’s the difference between training and development?

Training to meet customer expectations:

  • Trainers
  • Procedures
  • Manuals
  • Objective evaluations
  • Compliance

Development to exceed customer expectations:

  • Leaders
  • No procedures
  • No manuals
  • Subjective evaluation
  • Commitment

We lump these two entirely different tools together as “Training and Development”.

Why is that dangerous?

Lost opportunity?

Easy opportunity?

Lost opportunity.

Which team will win, a well-trained and compliant team or an amazingly developed and committed team?

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Writing and the first 90 days of 2017

Luck school
Finished Seth Godin’s “What To Do When It’s Your Turn (and it’s always your turn)” yesterday.

 

Writing and the first 90 days of 2017.

Burn the Ships

 

A writer would consider herself lucky to have a 90-day, 450 blog-post surplus, the result of her writer’s flood affliction.

However, she would also be panicked if she were desperately behind in her one-year writing quest.

If she was creative (and smart) she’d mash the two together to create Magic.

 

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Writing to feel uncomfortable

selfie with toddler
The daily learning curve continues to be steep for both. And they both thrive on it.

 

My posts are designed to make me feel uncomfortable.

Maybe you feel (or felt) uncomfortable too.

Not everyone likes this.

i thrive on it.

Oxygen, so to speak.

Why?

The goal with making myself uncomfortable is to challenge me to .think .differently

And the goal with thinking differently is to then reach the point where i no longer feel uncomfortable.

No excuses.

No regrets.

Who doesn’t want that?

 

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Please fail more often

famous start up garages
From LinkedIn. For every story like these, there are thousands that never made it.

 

Dear son, please fail more often.

Fear and risk are inseparable.

Risk and failure are inseparable.

Failure and growth are inseparable.

To grow, fail.

Son, remember, i want you to do as much of this as possible before you leave home to start your own life.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.