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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Hey there, this is today’s second jungle jeff post. Leaving a comment is easy, and you don’t need to log-in to do it.
If you could choose only one, which would it be? #1 Be excellent at what you do, or, #2 Be the only one at what you do?
Are you satisfied?
When you wake up every day, what are some of the first things you do or think about? Did you start thinking about today last night?
The workday begins the night before.
So last night, in thinking about yesterday’s post and the reference to the Fast Company article, I’m good with it ending the way it did.
Do you start blaming others and thinking about all the things “they” need to do? Or do you look in the mirror and analyze what you need to fix?
This will determine, in large part, your success or failure.
What was interesting was that just yesterday, these jeff noel blogs set a single day record for daily visits. It’s taken years to get “here”.
And I got here by doing stuff, not by anything else.
Be more:
And find your purpose. That’s the key. You know it and I know it. We all read about it, and listen to others talk about it.
Talk is cheap. And so is lying to ourselves.
Continuous improvement and ongoing professional education are crucial for staying competitive and thriving in a down economy.
Rubbish.
We should be doing all we can to do stuff, not read and study stuff.
We should be doing stuff. Stuff that our gut tells us is right. Stuff that our gut tells us needs to be started yesterday.
We can read articles and attend seminars, but at some point, in my humble opinion, we need to start doing something, something more.
At the end of this post, you’ll have a link to a recent Fast Company article about finding creative, untraditional ways to solve unsolvable problems challenges.
It’s four pages long. I “got it” after the first page, but read the second page as well, out of guilt – for fear of looking obnoxious or boastful. Whatever, right?
Listen, I’m so annoyed and fired up, that I need to end this post now. After some cool down time, will try again tomorrow to finish this. Well, maybe. Maybe my point has already been made.
Click here if you want to read the Fast Company thing.
PS. Just for the record, I read a ton, in between doing stuff and getting uncommon results.
Abundance and Seth Godin? At the risk of having you leave jungle jeff and never come back, I’d like to share access to Seth Godin’s brand new eBook, What Matters Now.
It’s free, click here to download the PDF.
I’m copying the bulk of Seth Godin’s email blog post from yesterday, for your convenience:
“Now, more than ever, we need to shake things up.
Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around. I hope a new ebook I’ve organized will get you started on that path. It took months, but I think you’ll find it worth it the effort.
Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year. From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant tech thinker Kevin Kelly, from publisher Tim O’Reilly to radio host Dave Ramsey, there are some important people riffing about important ideas here. The ebook includes Tom Peters, Jackie Huba and Jason Fried, along with Gina Trapani, Bill Taylor and Alan Webber.
Here’s the deal: it’s free. Download it here. Or from any of the many sites around the web that areposting it with insightful commentary. Tweet it, email it, post it on your own site. I think it might befun to make up your own riff and post it on your blog or online profile as well. It’s a good exercise. Can we get this in the hands of 5 million people? You can find an easy to use version on Scribd as well. Please share.”
Want a tip to help you resist the urge to wait? In a moment, I’ll share what happened last month, what I did about it, and how it impacted my leadership philosophy.
But it’s a double edge sword isn’t it? If consistency is the hallmark of quality, and continuous improvement is the key to becoming world class, how do you balance risk and reward?
Faced with a opportunity to do something the way I’ve always done it, or a way I’ve been dreaming about but always chicken out, I was once again presented the opportunity, but was afraid I’d pass on it again.
But not this time. Finally choose the way I had envisioned.
It was amazingly exhilarating! Why? Which is a good question because the thing I did differently, was actually very small in the big scheme of things.
Then why was it exhilarating? Because conquering a small fear builds the confidence to conquer another small fear.
Eventually, the fears that get conquered are bigger and bigger, until we are faced with very little fear that we can’t act on.
Well, we will always come across scary things, but the confidence to confront and conquer is a priceless ROI for small risk taking habit.
The key, the simple tip – “Do at least one thing each day that scares you.”