1. You and I know how good we have become, but we don’t have any idea of how good we could be.
What great projects are you undertaking in your business? In your life? Many people go through life driving with their dome lights on instead of their headlights. What you have become is important, but not nearly as important as what you can be.
2. Pursuing your potential is more important than achieving your goals.
It is satisfying to achieve your goals and objectives, but that’s no proof that you are living up to your true capabilities. Keep experimenting and trying new things in the pursuit of your true potential.
3. Losers make excuses. Winners learn lessons.
Excuses don’t teach you anything and keep you from making needed changes. Understanding why you failed will give you insights for needed changes.
4. Don’t copy the crowd–learn from the leaders.
One of the quickest ways to become a leader is to learn from the leaders. Watch what the best are doing. Learn to do it. Then learn to do it even better.
5. Ask different questions to change your business or your life.
If you keep asking the same old questions you’ll keep getting the same old answers. Rethink the situation and ask a different question.
I like what my friend Eric Chester who once reminded me that to keep growing you need a healthy form of skepticism that can be summed up in these words: “Answer your questions but question your answers.”
6. Live by your values to achieve what is truly valuable.
A wise person once said, “The bad news is that you can’t have it all. The good news is that when you know what’s really important, you don’t want it all anyway.” Clearly identified values keep you on track and allow you to prioritize.
7. Focused attention beats brains and brute strength every time.
Continually ask yourself, “What gives me the biggest payback on my investment of time and energy?”
Focus on your mvp activities (most valuable and profitable). Spend 60-80% of every day on those mvp activities. That still leaves you with 20-40% of your time to deal with interruptions, crises and the unexpected.
8. You can’t put more time in your life, but you can put more life into your time.
Do you “save time”? How much have you got saved up? Saving time is a myth. Time is a flow that cannot be interrupted. The best we can hope for is to use it wisely as it courses through our existence.
Put more life in your time by filling every moment with the richness of experience, learning, love and growth.
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