Greetings, once again, to all our highly valued clients and respected colleagues:
I am assuming that we are doing all we can to be safe and sound and still around.
I’m still working on these 4 Practices (Mentor Inspired) from last month. 😊😊
- Discipline
- Structure
- Self-Control
- Self-Mastery
My focus in recent months has been advocating ideas and strategies that may have the potential to live on and possibly serve others well into the future, at least as an innovative catalyst or our best shot, with what we knew and had access to at the time.
Part of the challenge for many of us, at this time in the year, or during any pursuit anytime, is stick-to-it-iveness to keep going and growing.
We may (or may not) remember (or possibly heard of?) such ideas or stories as:
You fell down the first time you tried to walk. (You are now you a loser?)
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn’t you?
Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
The ones who hit the most home runs also strike out a lot.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
Novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.
On and on. Let’s not worry about failure. Let’s focus on living, learning, improving…
Let’s think about what we miss when we don’t even try and miss shots we don’t take.
All significant innovations include a lot of trial and error. Let’s experiment wisely.
“The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (Guilt, Fear, Stress, and Obligation) can mask talent.” – Alan Weiss, prolific speaker, author.
If anything is worth doing well, it’s also worth doing poorly, at first. We got to get bad before you get good? Now’s the time to just take running jumps into the lake.
For laughs? international Comedian W. C. Fields once joked – “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.”
Ever get all super inspired by a great set of ideas and then go back to your routine environments and it’s like you didn’t learn anything new?
Time to Set Up an All-Important Sustainable Support System.
Create Wind Beneath Your Wings and Your Power to Persist
“Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support networks so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it’s hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.”
Tom Peters – business author, best known for In Search of Excellence.
Oftentimes, we can get distracted from our focus and/or get bounced off the best path to accomplish our most important priorities. My question is, what are we doing to Create Your Unstoppable Resilience? How will you bounce back, to get and stay on track?
We’re Human Beings and we can get into a sluggish, discouraging funk at times. We may be suddenly blindsided by major health, financial, work and/or relationship issues.
However, as we all have heard a million times, it is not how many times we get knocked down, it is how many times we keep getting back up that counts. How would you rate your resilience? Your ability to quickly bounce back, upwards, forwards and onwards?
The message?? Don’t do it alone!! Create Circuitries of Support!!
One of the ways to build our resilience is to have a supportive network. Find friends and relatable communities of people who are equally or more inspired, committed, determined, capable, creative, innovative, effective, and fulfilled to be with us in our life.
To do something we’ve never done before, we need support!! Creating relationship environments of support can contribute tremendously to our bounce back resiliency.
Horizon Expanders??
I always want to hear what extremely successful people think, regardless of their chosen fields or lines of work. I may or may not agree with what they have to say, and I want to ask them my toughest questions. I want to hear their best ideas, upgrades, technology, offerings, and projects. Personally, it challenges/inspires me to get my own priorities vividly and crystal clear.
#1) Key points from New York Times Best Selling Author, John Maxwell:
In the Leadershift Workbook, based on the bestselling book of the same name, author John C. Maxwell helps leaders make the changes the current fast-paced environment demands. He begins by helping leaders embrace seven principles to face every situation with flexibility and confidence:
- Continually learn, unlearn, and relearn
- Value yesterday, but live in today
- Rely on speed, but thrive on timing
- See the big picture as the picture keeps getting bigger
- Live in today, but think about tomorrow
- Move forward courageously in the midst of uncertainty
- Realize today’s best will not meet tomorrow’s challenges
#2) An AI track that I track https://marshallgoldsmith.ai/ – try it, you might like it!
From Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, another New York Times Best Selling Author who has also been recognized as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World
Basic idea – to democratize wisdom at minimal cost to provide the greatest service and value for the most. (His knowledge philanthropy idea for 20+ years.)
From an Executive Briefing this week, in Marshall’s own words: “As you may know, I have spent the last 6+ months working on my own AI Bot, MarshallBOT. The progress on MarshallBOT has been amazing! In the last 3 weeks it has ‘turned a corner’ and is now producing great answers on an incredible range of topics in very short time periods.
I joked before that it could answer 75% of questions directed to me better than I could. I now see that it can answer almost 100% of questions directed to me better than I can (usually far better than me)!” Test your questions here for free. See for yourself!!
(Note – our questions may be “the answer” to happier, healthier frontiers ahead)
#3) FranklinCovey’s replay of the Inspire People, Ignite Results free webcast, with World-Renowned Bestselling Authors Stephen M. R. Covey & Chris McChesney
To stay alive, results matter. To thrive, how results are driven matters insurmountably more. Intuitively, leaders know this. Yet, the common practice—intentionally or not—is to trade long-term success for short-term results, ultimately leading to human relationship failure. The best-performing organizations create high-trust environments where people work together and have a system to achieve measurable results. Don’t miss this free and exclusive webcast! Register now to inspire yourself and ignite better results.
#4) Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant.
“I read Hidden Potential in one sitting, loved it, and have been thinking about it ever since. Which is the highest praise I can give a book. This is Adam Grant’s finest work—it will inspire you to bigger dreams.”
—Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and host of Revisionist History
About the Author – Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. His books have sold millions of copies, and his TED talks have been viewed more than 30 million times. He hosts the hit podcast Re:Thinking. His viral piece on languishing was the most-read New York Times article of 2021 and the most-saved article across platforms. He has been recognized as one of the world’s ten most influential management thinkers under 40.
In a growing era of empathy and minimalization, we can simplify, eliminate and delegate more than ever versus fighting an undertow of useless distractions at our lives’ shores.
Your best is on the way – personal, physical, business and otherwise. Here’s to a Happier New Year for all of us, no matter what. (and there will probably be “what”)
May this menu of ideas help you persist and persevere with greater aliveness.
I am here to bring my latest to serve you well and help you win.
Let’s keep connecting, communicating, and collaborating.
Don
