Some of what I believe.
I like to collect ideas. I've started collecting 'what I believe', not an ordered or complete list.
Take Responsibility.
What happens is often unfair. What happens is frequently not your fault. How you respond to it is 100% your responsibility. Take extreme ownership of outcomes. Never blame others. Find a solution.
Extreme ownership changes your option set. Jocko Willink and Lief Babin
Understanding you are responsible for the outcome changes your planning, forces you to learn.
It’s not the will to win. It’s the will to practice. Bear Bryant.
Everyone wants to win.
Love the plateau.
It’s the daily practice that’s the reward.
Awards and punishments are in the future or in the past. Practice is now.
Best time to plant a shade tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is today.
If something is a good idea, start doing it today.
Don’t waste time regretting you should have started long ago.
Only emotion endures. Ezra Pound.
People forget what you; they remember how you said it.
People are attracted to positive, energetic people.
Mad, Glad, and Sad are the only 3 emotions in life.
With few exceptions, people only buy when they are glad.
We are all in sales.
Only two real jobs in life: sales and unemployed.
We influence people to get what we want.
Influence can be used to get teams to do what’s best for the company.
Today started yesterday.
Plan tomorrow before leaving work or going to bed.
It’s too later to wake up and decide what’s next.
Keep what sticks.
Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.
Don’t be a prisoner of hope – balance this with not giving up too early.
It’s not what you feel might work. Test it, Repeat.
Belief will rule your world.
Is gas high priced? Depends on what you believe. If it was a dollar more yesterday, then it will seem cheap today even if it’s twice what it was a year ago.
How you frame a situation determines if it’s a problem or an opportunity.
Belief comes from hearing and hearing and hearing.
Belief takes a decision and it takes work.
Do the homework to believe in your business, your produce, your service.
Documentation is alive.
Live off checklists.
Keep documentation alive.
Write as if you won’t see it again for years – not like you’ll see it tomorrow.
Checklist are not the same as documentation.
Checklist contain the few things a talented, experience can’t forget.
Right garden for every plant.
People may fail in one job and succeed in a new one.
The environment matters.
The system we live in matters as much as the person's talents.
Inertia is overcome by force.
Projects get stuck.
Email piles up.
Tasks run overdue.
It’s take force, through will or authority, to overcome inertia. Action will follow action.
Gremlins aren’t real.
Technology breaks for a reason. Have faith you can find it.
Always assume it’s your fault until someone else takes responsibility.
We see the future in story.
Never tell a story without a point and never make a point without a story.
We tell our stories in art. Art’s value is the story it can tell.
No substitute for face-to-face.
When possible meet in person.
If you can’t meet in person, call.
If you can’t call, social media.
If you can’t use social, email.
Email is good for passing information – not influence. Remember only emotion endures.
Celebrate Mistakes – no lesson in victory.
If we are afraid of mistakes, we can’t learn.
If you want to learn to swim, you must get wet.
If you are afraid to let go of the wall, you’ll never know what it is to swim.
More is caught than taught.
They are watching. Your kids are watching. Your team is watching. The stranger on the street is watching. What are you teaching?
Don’t worry about happiness. Worry about doing what’s right.
Duty comes first.
Happiness is elusive and it begins with doing what needs to be done.
Feeling are fleeting.
The obstacle is the way.
When you feel the resistance to acting, that’s the alarm bell to signal action is required.
Fear can be a radar to correct action. You know what needs to be done. Act.
There’s always more. Beliefs are discovered when assumptions are challenged. I read to prepare for experience. How did others do it? I’m not alone. Fear isn’t new. Success isn’t real, and striving has a reward in itself. Maybe Sisyphus pushes the rock back down the hill?