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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
A friend and i spoke for an hour yesterday about entrepreneurial effort.
Not until this morning did it occur to me to ask her, “Are you running to something or away from something?”
Fear probably does not have enough juice to fuel success.
Purpose, when we would literally die for something, is rocket fuel.
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If you hit the snooze button, if you do rolling stops at stop signs, if you drive too fast, these are valid indications you are not a great leader. You are probably a great manager, getting things done, even burning the midnight oil, and racing down the highway to increase your output.
But leadership starts with self.
Is the purpose of speeding to save three minutes? Go to bed three minutes earlier the night before. No?
Saving three seconds by doing rolling stops instead of full and complete stops? Wake up one minute earlier so you don’t have to shave 10-20 seconds off of your commute.
Hitting the snooze button?
Rushing out the door half awake, in a rush, disorganized – the three minute and 20 seconds you save on a typical 30- minute commute requires a level of worry and anxiety that could be spent in an entirely different way if you went to bed (or woke up) just five minutes earlier.
Think about it.
When i finally came to terms with my blind spot, i fixed these things.
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Everything i do is either going to raise my average or lower it.
Same with you.
The choices we make.
The effort we put in.
The things we read.
Our thoughts.
Our dreams.
The people we hang to with.
Leadership isn’t about maintaining our average output, it’s about making our output better.
An output much better than anyone, including ourselves, believes is possible.
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Making excuses is natural.
It’s a convenient coping mechanism.
No harm no foul, right?
Making excuses can become habitual.
Worse yet, it can become a disease.
There’s no MRI that will reveal it’s severity.
Only a wake up call will do that.
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Turned the corner on a steep and impatient learning curve.
Thank goodness for trust. It allows patience and pain to be an opportunity rather than an illness.
In reality, i was unprepared for having to negotiate six-figure cultural transformation contracts.
Why?
Because it was never part of my future.
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