We use four spoons in our house. The decorative sugar spoon is for coffee creamer.
The “fancy eating spoon” with a long handle is for ice cream.
My wife uses the wrong spoons. She uses the fancy eating spoon for yogurt!
I tried to explain spoon protocol but failed.
“The only thing on Earth that never lies to you is your calendar.” Tom Peters
Recurring meetings typically deal with day-to-day issues. Leaders spend up to 80% of their time fixing flats.
You’re a maintenance worker when you spend your day fixing flats.
Less Time Fixing Flats…
What would it be like to live as if you had one week to live? One thing is clear. You would become intolerant of nonsense.
You would be intolerant of mundacity if you had a one-week mindset. Pointless conversations, useless activities, and trivial tensions would feel unbearable.
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Survival is success during crisis. It fails in the long-term.
Define meaningful action to thrive. Typically, we define purpose, choose goals, and set priorities. But there’s a better order. Priorities before goals.
Define purpose
Set priorities
Choose goals
You can do good things without priorities, but you can’t engage in meaningful action.
A person who can’t say no is a slave with many masters.
A world without ‘NO’ is filled with frustration.
Imagine saying no with courage and kindness.
You get more done when you do less, and you get less done when you do more. Constant busyness produces shallow people. Most of us do too much of what matters less. I… Continue reading
