Why you’re not hitting your goals
1. No consistency
2. You lack patience
3. You’re doing it wrong
4. Your skills need sharpening
5. Poor planning and execution
7. Not focusing on important tasks
Clarity precedes Mastery
Align your attention to the things that matter
5. Empathy:
• Take a genuine interest in other people.
• Look at things from their perspective.
• Acknowledge their feelings.
• Never judge and always be supportive.
• Be generous with your time and attention.
You are the chief reminding officer.
Whenever you think you’ve said something enough, you haven’t.
Leading teams means ensuring there is the least amount of confusion and the most amount of clarity.
That means repeating key messages…a lot.
If you can't teach yourself, you're a liability:
If people have to spend their time teaching you simple things that you can learn on the internet, you'll always be considered a liability.
It doesn't matter what you do for a living.
Being auto-didactic is a differentiator.
Throw your 10-year plan in the trash:
When I look at the people in my network who are on top, most have embraced pivots, chance, and randomness.
They had a plan.
They had milestones.
They changed them when data (and qualitative feedback) suggested doing so.
Comparing yourself to others is the easiest way to get distracted:
You can only control how successful you are, not how successful someone else is.
Be the best version of yourself, not a better version of someone else.
The biggest difference between success & failure is getting started:
The majority of people I know fantasize about things that actually can be accomplished.
They just never get started.
If you get started and play the long game, you have a great chance of winning.
Pour salt on the wound.
No pain, no sale.
People will only value your solution if they value their problem.
If they don’t think their problem is that bad, they won’t pay you to solve it.
When in doubt, emphasize the pain.
Painkillers sell better than vitamins.
I have a problem with people who give up on their “friends” at their lowest moments. It’s so heartbreaking & painful. We all need saving at some point in this journey called life. No one is completely whole or has everything figured out, all the time. Including you.