Substitution

Are you getting/eating/doing too much of what you don’t need, and too little of what you do?

What do you need less of?

What do you need more of?

When will you start the substitution?

Control the inputs

You can’t bake a cake with bad, sour, negative, stale or rotten ingredients.

Control the inputs into your life.

Develop you

Most people never realize the greatness inside of them because they spend most of their time on activities that have nothing to do with it.

What about you?

"Thinking Music"

I educated myself on audiobooks, so I don’t listen to the radio a lot.  However, I love music.  When I am working I listen to music that doesn’t distract me, but inspires me and brings out my creativity.

I was playing “Coastal Brake” by Tycho, and my daughter Autumn said “This is thinking music”.   “Yes!”

Here’s a few of my favorites to play while working.

Jon Hopkins  “Light through the Veins”, Cocteau Twins “Pandora (for Cindy)”, Solar Fields “Bngl.W”, The Egg “Venice Beach”, Cloud Atlas Finale, Tycho “Montana”, Saucy “Through the Sky”, and Passenger 10 “What a Feeling”.

Enjoy!

Goals

A year from now, what needs to happen personally or professionally for you to be happy with your progress?

How are you thinking about that problem?

The problem isn’t so much the problem, it’s how we think about the problem that became the real problem.

What did you make it mean? How big do you see this problem? Is it really a problem at all?

How can you change your thinking to make this problem not be a problem?

"Straight Commission"

What if you only got paid if you produced positive results for others?

Money, love, relationships, personal satisfaction; we’re all on straight commission.

How’s your paycheck?

Selection and de-selection

Everything is a choice.  A minute is only singular.  We can only “spend it” doing one thing at a time. When we choose to spend it doing one thing, or with one person, we have chosen not to spend it doing hundreds of other things.  

Choose wisely.

Fuzzy targets don't get hit

Are you perfectly clear on what your goals are?

M = O – C

Mess = Obligation – Commitment

Have you made an obligation but don’t have the commitment to follow through?

Oh boy….

If you want to clean up the mess you have to remove the obligation or commit to following through.