Moral and Ethical "SKILLS"

What you achieve is important. 

But more important than what you achieved is the way in which you achieved it and who you became as a result of the chase.

Develop moral and ethical skills along the way.  Watch for the tests.  Pass them.

Be a good human first.

Then be a good human who achieves things.

Invictus

Link to Invictus track on YouTube.

Go ahead. 

3 minutes and 17 seconds….

Click the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZYPzpwWp8Q&list=OLAK5uy_m6i-1PD64VCln7_-j2fmRnBT99loZDbbw&index=9

Raise Your Aim

“The greatest risk in life is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.” – from my track “New Day”

Where are you aiming?

There's now, and that's all.

You don’t create the future in the future.

You create it now.

You do it all now.

There is no future.

It’s all a continuous series of nows.

So if you want the future to be better when it gets here (tomorrow, next week, next year, 20 years from now), then look at what you are doing now.

What ARE you doing now?

Soda kills

The Coca-Cola company kills people.  Actually it’s people who drink soda habitually that are committing suicide with soda.  There is always a choice.

I know too many people who drink a liter bottle each day and got diabetes, etc. 

So, I have to call it like it is.  Don’t drink soda.  In fact, don’t drink any sugary drinks – and most of them are.  

Iced tea, “orange juice” and “apple juice”, energy drinks, Gatorade….

Our bodies were not built for all this sugar.  In these doses – it’s poison.

Internal Scorecard

Don’t keep the definition of success or fulfillment outside you – based on what other people think.

You have to be the judge of whether you are doing well or thriving, and no one else.

Now certainly, in a great paradox, if many people think you are a scumbag, then you need to take that into consideration; it means you are not being a good human.  So what others think of you is an indicator of how you are doing, but not the definition.

YOU know what you are doing all the time.  Are you phony or are you real?  Who are you when nobody is looking?  Are you doing your best?  Are you doing what you were made to do?  Are you growing and getting better?  Are you living to your potential more and more each week?  Are you proud of you?

F.A.I.L. – First Attempt in Learning

You know why I am so good at what I do?  

I have failed at it and versions of it many times.  

I had to in order to get better.

So next time you screw it up, know that it’s part of getting better.  Learn and keep going.

(Oh yea, and I am still messing it up – and getting better!)

The only real risk

We think this is risky or that is risky.

But the only real risk is that we run out of time.

Useful Preceeds Important

If you are not useful, you are less important in the world.

If you are useful, especially very useful, you will be more important.

Can you produce results and solve problems well?

Make it happen!

Some people talk more than they do. 

Some people do, and do it well and get results.

Being a thought leader is ok, but far better – being a results leader.

Show us you can –

• solve problems
• get important things done
• make things happen
• bring out the best in others…

Results leaders will always be respected and in high demand.