Over-work

Apple Watch fitness screen
Didn’t overwork it today. Did 50% less miles than the previous bike ride.

Over-working is a badge of honor.

Over-work is what you need to do to move ahead.

Perhaps there’s some truth to this: Take breaking out of the chicken egg, if you’re a wanna-be newborn chicken.

Study the Herd.

Is that where you want to go?

If not, you know what you need to do.

Mostly the opposite.

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GOAT Rock & Roll song

Album sleeve lyrics
Side two album sleeve.

Lyrics to the greatest Rock and Roll song ever recorded.

Never tried to fit in and go with the masses.

Neither did Led Zeppelin.

And in their defiance to dogma and tradition, they occupy a special, historic place in the minds, bodies, and souls of the crazy ones, the outliers. The ones who thrive on .thinking .differently

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Paradox gap

Instagram post screen shot with two men
The paradox of a suit and tie to jeans and a t-shirt.

Paradox has two diametrically opposing, opposite ends of a spectrum.

i envision a horizontal line with zero at the left end and 100 at the right end. The right number can be any number. Using 100 for simplicity.

Another way of quantifying the horizontal graph is on the left end is “Never” and the right end is “Always”.

Both ends are beliefs, statements, (possibly) facts, generalities, and so on. In between are levels of “more or less”.

Both ends represent the 100% opposite of the other.

Mid life crisis vs mid life celebration.

Go the extra mile vs go the extra inch.

Balance is a myth vs balance is not a myth.

Never saw it coming vs I’m not surprised.

Reflecting this morning on the ninth year since my friend and colleague took his life in his office, right after he sent a scathing email targeting five top leaders. Our entire team received it at 8:47 AM.

i remember it like it was yesterday.

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You can’t live another’s career

wall mural of famous entertainers
Artists become artists because they fill a space no one else fills.

You can’t live another’s career.

This is wonderful news.

Slay fear, doubt, and comparison to become the artist you and our world need.

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Festival environment

Walt Disney Company shareholder logo
Learned from the best. Represented the best. Honored the best. Continue to unofficially represent and honor the best.

You are a leader.

You are CEO of You, Inc.

You are an environmentalist.

A leader’s job is to create an environment where great ideas have no choice but to flourish.

A leader must inspire people to create the best structure and process for idea evaluation and selection.

A healthy list of ideas is worthless if fear or competing priorities keep a potential solution from ever getting a chance.

A leader blesses a six-step continuous improvement process for idea implementation and improvement.

The road to excellence has no finish line.

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