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Cluelessness is a strategy to avoid having to take responsibility, to avoid owning that your results are your results. Failure is a result.
And because it is impossible to heal and eradicate something that’s hidden and ignored, this cluelessness hides what you consider some of your most important excuses for being nasty, hateful, angry, and slothful. Continue reading “Cluelessness is a strategy. As if you don’t look it isn’t”
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Whether you know it or not: you are reactive… It is part of the human condition.
Reactiveness: Hastiness coupled with easy resignation is the death of any dream.
Although you can kill a dream in many different ways… whether it is a dream for a superb business that allows you the time to work on the business and not in the business… whether it is a dream for self-expression, fulfillment, and making a difference, whether it is for fame and fortune, whether it is for health, vitality and mobility in your later years… you can kill it in many many many ways.
And god knows we do everything in our power to kill our dreams. Continue reading “Just hang in there! Your reactiveness is destructive!”
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One of the questions you can ask yourself frequently is this: what is my superpower?
I could have said: what am I good at?… but that is not what I want to know.
A superpower is that little thing that I add to life that is not expected, and may not be obvious to people, maybe even not to yourself. And that is the reason to ask the question, and ask it often.
I have some students who definitely can’t see their superpower. Continue reading “Disgust is one of my superpowers. What is your superpower?”
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It is hard to remain motivated nowadays. I watch and this year only about 4% of the people work out in the park next to where I live. Only 5% of the people do much of anything that they used to. It is hard to stay hopeful.
People look and feel burned out.
Burnout is when activities that made sense in the past, that maybe even excited you in the past are now drudgery. It can happen with anything: talking to someone, making love to someone, taking care of the garden, cooking, building a business, reading…
It’s not the what, it is the who.
You. You lost what it was…
But what was it? Without recapturing what it was, or creating something just like it, you are going to have a life of meh…
Or a life where you are going to be an excitement seeker, an addict.
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What’s your strategy?
This is the most important question to ask yourself if you want to build a business, expand a business, or change a business. Or if you want to accomplish anything really… anything that requires more steps and more time that just making your bed in the morning.
What is a strategy?
According to the dictionary: a plan of action to achieve a major or overall aim or result
Strategy is essentially the bridge between where you are and your vision.
It’s also a narrative that takes the listener from how it is now through what it takes to get to the fulfillment of the plan: expanding, balding or changing the business or a project.
Unless it is clear for the listener that the actions listed in the narrative will surely get the speaker to the role, the likelihood of the goal to be accomplished is between zero and none. You can be both the speaker and the listener in this. Continue reading “What’s your strategy? Do you have one?”
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Some 50 years ago I had a boyfriend who was a philosophy student in Hungary. I typed up his dissertation, and misunderstood a word: because in my worldview the word he wrote didn’t exist…
I am editing my chapter in the upcoming Entrepreneur’s Code book and I just got an insight.
Anything that doesn’t agree with your worldview will show up differently that it’s intended, as the word I mistyped 50 years ago.
I watched a few videos over the weekend, my first weekend in a long time when I wasn’t booked one way or another, to lead a course, for example.
I intend to understand what is happening in the world, and what it is that I can do about it. Continue reading “Trying to change your worldview is like pissing in the wind…”
Remembering the Future…This methodology is revolutionary… but let’s not get ahead of ourselves…
What future? What remembering? What can it do? What is self-trust? Is it the same as self-esteem?
Continue reading “Remembering the future… or how to cause self-trust?”
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You can’t see your worldview. Or said more accurately: everything you see is a worldview.
View stands for what you see.
Your results, your lifestyle, your actions, your thoughts all come from your worldview.
That is why I likened it to the floor you walk on… before you can change your worldview, you need to be OK for suddenly not have a floor to walk on. Continue reading “What the heck is a worldview and why can’t you see yours?”
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See me as a person. See me for what’s great in me, and have room for what isn’t…
Secretly we all want to be acknowledged for what WE feel is great about us… not what YOU think is. But because we, humans, don’t see who others are… we only see who we are… we never feel seen, we never feel acknowledged for what we feel is good about us. Continue reading “See ME. Not a thing… ME as a person! Look again!”
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What is my biggest challenge based on my experiences with my non-producing clients?
First off: Not everyone is a non-producer… this guy, Ray is not one.
Here is his story of how he got hired for his dream job..
A decade or so ago Ray was a programmer, and he hated his job, hated his life. It needed none of his personality, which is often the reason you hate your job. I hated architecture mainly for the same reason…
One day he heard about the option to be a ‘sales engineer’, a sales person to sell software, technical stuff… Talking… yeah, that was more up his alley.
The interview was to do a sales presentation in front of two women…
He had his powerpoint ready…
His first slide said: Warning! This presentation includes subliminal messages. That got the two women puzzled… Continue reading “What’s the difference between Ray and most people?”
