All improvement is incremental

All improvement is incremental…

Improvement stems from the magic of compound interest.

Countless small iterations.

In hindsight, it turns out that each iteration required all the preceding iteration attempts— all the failures and the successes.

The more you try, the more you fail.

The more you fail, the closer you get to improvement. Until one day, a small, never-been-tried tweak or a sudden, random idea creates a eureka moment.

What feels like a breakthrough in reality is a culmination of small, almost invisible positive steps toward the eureka moment.

This is great news.

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What could go right

crayon sketch
First draft of my business card logo, 2008.

i plan for the worst and hope for the best.

However, this is how most start, “What could go wrong?”

Human nature. No doubt. That’s where i used to start, and, stop too.

Now my human nature is also ask, “What could go right?”

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Beware of negativity

Beware of…

Negativity.

Procrastination.

Hype.

Greed.

Doubt.

Knowing what to avoid is as important as knowing what to chase.

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If you want good thoughts

If you want good thoughts, think about what your worst thoughts yield you.

Then think about what the best thoughts yield you.

So obvious, the choice.

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Disney .thinks .differently

book cover for The Comfort Crisis
A 10-year executive coaching client (CEO of 3k employee enterprise recently purchased by a 300k person enterprise) sent this yesterday. Can you guess who he said it reminded him of?

Disney Excellence Paradox:

Teaching Disney Institute’s world-class curriculum to a million people over 15 years, my participants always appreciated when i said this:

“We don’t do these things because we’re Disney, we’re Disney because we do these things.”

The above quote is my response to anyone insisting that Disney has special abilities and secrets that outsiders can’t touch.

It is my way of trying to snap a person back to reality.

Finally, this insight frames one of my daily mantras: Stop making excuses that excellence is only reserved for privileged people and privileged companies. Be amazed and be amazing.

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