Complexity is killing your company.

Pretend this were true.  What parts are too complicated?  

What would you change to simplify it?

Unique advantages

What can you do that your competitors can’t, or chose not to?

De-Clutter your mind

What if you took everything off your desk and put it on the floor or a folding table across the room.  Clean desktop.  Then you took one thing at a time from the “stuff” and decided to deal with it once and for all or throw it away? 

A cluttered desk hurts your concentration, and in the end, all you have is what comes out of your mind.

Success is not a destination

Therefore you can never get there.  And if you can’t get there, you don’t have to wait to get there to be happy.

Success is a journey.  So long as you are in active pursuit of a worthy goal, you are successful now.

Learn to be happy now.

Take it on!

Some days an entrepreneur feels like the whole world is working against him/her.  I think you have to be bold and a touch crazy to take it all on – like you are challenging the world and determined to win.

“And nobody in all of Oz, 

No wizard that there is or was, 

Is ever gonna’ bring me down!”

Mass movements don't begin with the masses

They begin with an individual and then small groups who communicate.

Can your group get something going?

Do you have a growth environment?

You know you have a growth environment when people desire change.  If people are fighting change, then it’s hard to grow.

Do you have a growth environment in your company?

Fans or friends?

When you are highly successful, you create a gap between you and others.  They think you are better, smarter and bigger than you really are; they have this exaggerated view about people who are successful.

If you want fans, create this gap.  But if you want friends, make the gap go away by telling them all the stupid and embarrassing things you have done.  Their thoughts of your greatness will go away, as they see you are in reality, just like them.

Don't forget where you came from

One big reason high achievers may not be happy is that although they have achieved a level of success, they keep comparing where they are to perfection.  This perfection is an ideal that may never be attainable, or at least it’s far off.

Looking forward is a strength, but can be trouble when deciding when to be happy.

Instead, compare where you are and what you have achieved to where you started.  It’s easy to be happy when you do.

You don't have to do it all.

In your business, a variety of important functions need to get done.  You don’t have to do what you are not good at, you just need to recognize what is important and see that it gets done.

Are you seeing that all the important stuff gets done?