Don’t be normal

If you want to be just like someone else – copy them, and do what they do.  Their routine, their schedule, their leisure activities.

But if you want to succeed, by definition you have to be different. Not for the sake of being different, but for the sake of accomplishing the goals you have crystal clear in your head.  Others don’t have those goals.  You do. 

You’re not normal.  Act that way.

Too many hands on my time

Other people don’t know what your highest value activities are.  They are working on their (often low value) activities.

Allowing anyone that comes along (by phone, email, or in person) to take a piece of your time whenever and for whatever they want is how you lose control of your life and get off your mission.  YOU have to be in charge of your time and how you spend it.

Right?

Lies

I don’t talk about it much.   You’d think everyone would know it.  You’d think it was a given.  Of course…

When you lie, you give away all your credibility.  Nobody wants to do business with you anymore (or employ you) because they can’t trust you.

Saying you made a mistake or that you don’t get it, or simply explaining your predicament is better than lying. 

Way better. 

Way way better.

"Company Owned"

List of company assets – 5 trucks, 2 cars, 8 desks, 9 computers, office equipment, and a 43 year old male with average intelligence.

Do you own your company, or does your company own you?

The best leader?

The team with the best leader usually wins.

Is that you?

Pursuit of…what?

Many of us spend our time trying to be like our competitors.  But if we really knew what they were going through and the results they were getting – perhaps we wouldn’t trade places with most of them.

Watch the crowd.

Go in a different direction.

Be nice

If you’re a jerk to people, you’ll have people working against you from all directions.  Then when the big crisis hits – you’ll be standing alone.

Be nice – to everyone.

Some things die

Other things need to be killed.

What do you need to stop for something better to start?

The big – from the small

All the little transactions added up – one customer at a time, over and over and over again – create the big stuff.

What are your customers experiencing just before they could, would, and aren’t making a decision to buy from your organization?

Pay attention.  Close attention.

Who have you become?

What has your business done to you?

Do you like it or not like it?

You created the monster.  And you can change it too.