Did you know that the African impala can jump ten feet high and cover a distance of ten yards? Yet this magnificent animal can be confined within walls only three feet high. Why? Because unless it first sees where it’s going to land, it’s afraid to jump.
Faith is the ability to jump and trust God even when you can’t see.
His mother, no longer able to provide for him, turned him over to the foster care system. At 22, he was homeless with a two-year-old son to care for.
The only way he could go was up. With $700 start-up cash, he pursued his vision.
Paul Mitchell hair products and eventually Patrón tequila.
One of the most significant traits of his success, he says, was overcoming rejection.
“You’ve got to be prepared in life for a lot of rejections.”
Pointing to a time, he had to sell encyclopedias door-to-door to put food on the table. Many doors, literally, closed in his face. As a result, he came to expect rejection, which proved to be beneficial, as he learned this:
“You must be just as enthusiastic on door 51 as you were on door 50, even if all 50 of those doors are closed in your face!”
John Paul DeJoria’s journey from homeless to entrepreneur and philanthropist – now you know…the rest of the story.
You can’t see the picture when you are in the frame. (Ask Billie Bean or Michael Jordan – client and Phil Jackson – coach.)
Whenever I get frustrated I use a model, “symptom, source, solution.” (Models can be so helpful).
Ever play Whac-a-Mole? Every time you knock one down, another mole pops up. To stop that from happening, you must address the source. In the case of the game, one solution is to unplug the machine and no more moles pop up!
The idea here is that if you really understand what the real source – the root cause – of your challenge is, the resolution becomes clearer.
Behind every behavior is a feeling and behind every feeling is a need and when you get to the need you get to the root cause and more effective solutions.
Always a DM away.
3D printing for habitat ( revitalize ) is building a house in a few days vs. a few months
4 month to 2 weeks or less
Game changer
Shifting relationships
For years we sent the referrals – that will remain
Yet – others are going direct to the consumer – sending you referrals for a fee or mutual business development.
Implication? So are your relationship deepening and expanding or shrinking and dying?
If you can’t shut off your brain, you have open loops to close.
So what do we do about it?
An empty mind is more creative and productive.
The problem with open loops in our business is that they live inside our heads and make a nest.
What if you simply did MORE of what what’s already working for you?
1. More Powerful Mindset and Goals
2. More Planning and Organization
3. More Lead Generation and Marketing
4. New Levels of Presentation and Conversion
5. New Levels of Enabling Business Systems
What if?
Why not?
Reflecting this morning and giving myself some grace… appropriate for the month of Easter. Sharing my personal coaching notes:
I’ve been on a bit of an emotional roller coaster: transitioning from a group of staff, agents, and B2B partners that I respect and love dearly; to moving full-time into the investments I had with a business partner; and orchestrating a cross-state move all while trying to keep the balance of faith, family, fitness, and finances.
As a type A, I’m not getting the results I want, both personally and professionally. Nothing happens fast enough! (Any testimonials?) Yet in my daily journal, there is one powerful question:
“As a high-performance coach, looking at my business and life from a high level, I would tell myself…”
And this was my note to self this morning:
With all the plans, strategies, goals, innovations, business practices, and culture that make up your life and business, you are getting exactly the results your systems and processes are currently capable of producing – nothing less, nothing more!
Said another way – a system will produce what a system will produce, nothing less, nothing more. Don’t like the result? Be HARD on the system and soft on the people.
Looking to be more outcome-focused? To get better results, you must improve the design and execution of your systems and processes—at the daily detailed checklist level.
The law of cause and effect governs all outcomes. To change an effect or result, you have to change the cause.
There ya go, my testimonial for today.
The top 1% have learned to “learn” outside their personal experience. That is bigger than thinking outside the box! Outside the box thinking, four ways, do you have a preferred way?
A. Think how to invent your way out of the box
B. Think about what you can do with the box
C. Think like there is no box
D. Think like the box has directions, follow them, and be on time and on budget
Leaders make one thing more than any other: decisions.
Every environment has constraints, and the decisions about how time and resources are allocated – about what to do next – drive all outcomes.
How do leaders decide what’s next? Is it based on urgency, proximity, or values?
The top 1% know the first in + first out approach is not an effective strategy; it’s an excuse. Even worse: the squeaky wheel strategy. They minimize the whirlwind.
