Category: Success
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Without a Goal, you can’t Score
“without a goal, you can’t score” …and you are probably somewhat de-motivated… In sports, the goal is very clear. In football – a 24ft by 8ft steel or aluminium frame with a net… so you can clearly see if the ball goes in. In sports, the victory condition is very clear… more goals than the…
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Active Patience vs Passive Patience
There is an old story of a person trapped on the roof of a building as floodwaters are rising. A boat passes and the occupants shout “come down, we’ll take you to safety”. The person says “No, God will save me”. Another boat passes. The occupants shout “come down, we’ll take you to safety” The…
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Where opportunities come from
Jim Collins says that “Return on Luck” is one of the significant factors in extreme success. It is not that successful companies or people have more luck… it is how they follow through on their lucky breaks that makes the difference. One person might meet someone who could open a door of massive opportunity… but…
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Days vs Years
Our emotional experience of life can depend on the time horizon we choose to look at our lives. If you look at the progress of your life each day, there are many wild swings. If you look at the progress of your life over longer time horizons, the wild swings blur into the background and…
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Redefining Failure
“Living Safely is Dangerous” Nietzsche What is your relationship to success and failure? I have been reflecting these recent weeks about how I respond to “failure” – when things do not turn out as I hoped or wished. The video below shares my thinking about a better way of approaching failure in our lives. How…
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Errors of Omission: What are you not doing that you should be Doing?
Warren Buffett often says that he is less scared by the errors he has made than by the sheer enormity of all the opportunities that he never even saw as they passed him by. Your progress in life is far less linked to whether you execute perfectly on the things you actually act on, and…
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How to find Opportunities (increase your Luck)
“Every opportunity is attached to a person. Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity — including one that has a financial payoff — you’re really looking for a person.” Entrepreneur and investor Ben Casnocha, Source: James Clear’s (excellent!) weekly newsletter My life is an…
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Choose your Hard (…because in Life… it is all hard)
I heard a recent Jordan Peterson video where he expounded on the concept “Choose your Hard”. This video has some of my reflections on the choice. Choosing hard today makes a difference. Not choosing hard is a choice… and it has consequences. I love Pep Mari’s wisdom around true commitment. I shared his 4 levels…
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Great Strategy without Great People is nothing
Ideas + Capital + Talent = enduring great business. Ideas are everywhere, nothing special about an idea. Capital is plentiful for those who have proven themselves. Today there is so much capital sloshing around looking for moderate returns. The Scarce Resource… Talent, true talent… is rare. Talent isn’t potential. Talent is systematic repeated high performance…
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Reps vs Hours
What matters most in the gym? The hours you spend or the reps on the weights? In the areas where you must be highly competent to succeed in your role: are you accumulating hours or reps? Do you just do your job or do you spend time practicing the important skills that make you effective?…