Take action before you’re competent. You act without ability when you learn to hit a baseball, for example.
The less you do, the less you’re able to do.
When effort drops, tolerance for effort fades.
The more you do, the more you can do.
You learn to lead by leading.
Here’s how…
The danger of average ideas is they work.
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.” G.K. Chesterton
Old dogs don’t learn when they can’t unlearn.
Average ideas are safe. It’s scary to embrace new ways of thinking.
We desire change but refuse to let go.
Empathy destroys us when it makes excuses. Grit is pressing forward.
Getting beyond resilience multiplies competence.
Delicate teams argue over trivialities.
Avoiding discomfort leads to weakness.
The feeble need rescue. The competent grow through challenge.
Resilience survives. Antifragile* teams thrive.
Here’s how to get beyond resilience and turn adversity into advantage.
A leader with ideals always strives but never arrives.
Anne Frank wrote, “It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical.”
Ideals are unreachable perfections. Excellence is always a pursuit.
Ideals make demands.
Ideals expose inadequacy.
Ideals show the way.
7 Leadership Ideals…
Effort isn’t your problem. You stall when pressure zones hijack behavior.
Breakthroughs need a catalyst.
Name the zone.
Shift your perspective.
Reclaim the future.
Learn 3 pressure zones.
Discover 5 steps to your breakthrough.
A hawk took a mouse in our front yard. The mouse dined in the cornfield. On its way home, the hawk dined on the mouse.
There’s no cosmic conspiracy. No malice. No mercy. It’s beautiful carnage. Everything is as it should be.
Nature is amoral. Humans are responsible.
