Business connections don’t fall from the sky

West Glacier Post Office — Brought two dozen stamps to Glacier, yet need more…closed on Saturday afternoons.

West Glacier road signs — The Mountain Ash Berry (right) will be peaking soon.

West Glacier Amtrak, and a Glacier Conservancy Store for more postcards. This is where the early West Glacier visitors had to disembark.

Glacier Park authors — Jeff is the Apgar Village Inn manager since 2004+-.

Business connections don’t fall from the sky.

As a small business startup, you often wish they did.

The good news?

i love making and building business connections.

The bad news?

It’s time-consuming.

The good news?

Nearly every business practice has never-ending room for creative improvement.

Better scale. More impact. Greater contribution. Bigger ripple effect.

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Find a million ways to stay professionally motivated

Bear Grass at Glacier — Some in full bloom, some still pushing for fullness.

Find a million ways to stay professionally motivated.

Read.

Study.

Write.

Design.

Prepare – the workday begins the night before.

Dream.

Make your vision clear, concise, and compelling.

Watch videos.

Observe.

Take notes.

Make connections.

Teach.

Volunteer.

Forgive.

Travel.

Walk.

Initiate.

There is a fine line between continuing and quitting – passion will serve you well, lack of passion (or half-baked passion) will not.

Lean into discomfort.

Have fun.

.think .differently

Be remarkable.

Mentor.

Mentee.

Balance convictions with flexibility.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

In matters of style, swim with the current.

Pencil or broom. (In your career, you’ll use your brain or your body, pick wisely)

Taking risks is risky, so is playing it safe.

The best thing i ever did was start my own gig.

The thing that prepared me for my own gig was working for a world-class company.

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How do you scale career excellence for an entire lifetime?

Jack the Bear in Glacier — Jack the Bear.

How do you scale career excellence for an entire lifetime?

Find a million ways to stay motivated.

Live as if every day is a new day (because it is).

Live in deep gratitude every moment of every new day.

Live as if you and the people you work with have a mission to make our world a better place.

If you can’t find people or an organization to make the world a better place, start your own organization – be an army of one if you have to.

Do work that is challenging and often difficult, yet simultaneously rarely feels like work.

See money as the reward, not the goal.

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Glacier National Park trip four, work

Divide Mountain and Wild Goose Island, dusk, July 2014. Just past Divide Mountain the Great Plains’ western border ends.

Glacier National Park trip four, work.

All nine days are focused on writing like i mean it.

Not a single day on the agenda that calls for zero writing.

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i wish i would have started a year ago

Mt Clements Glacier — Mt Clements, July 24, 2014.

If we do not change the way we teach, 30 years from now we will be in trouble. —Jack Ma, CEO @AlibabaGroup

My advice is to start with yourself. This has a ripple effect of your kids (or the young people in your life if you don’t have kids).

My other piece of advice is twofold: do something different within 72 hours and become more positive, healthier, more grounded, remarkably better at work, and more organized at home – that you don’t say, “I wish I would have started a year ago.”

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