Category: Start
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Perspectives: Growth over time.
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” – Sam Gamgee You’re closer than you’ve ever been to accomplishing your goal. How do I know? Because you’ve already started. Starting the work sets you on a trajectory towards the middle. And though, for a while you might get lost in the middle…
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Planting seeds.
“A student asked, “Teacher, when is the best day to plant a tree for the best production?” His teacher said, “There are two days to ensure the best production from you tree.” “What are those two days?” “The first is 20 years ago, the second, today.” You might have heard this dialogue before, adapted from…
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Getting through the Dip
The Dip. By Seth Godin We talk a lot about the start here. It’s probably because I struggle with the executive skill of Task Initiation. What you find you speak about the most tends to be the area of greatest opportunity. I have to work and remind myself of getting started. And then, sometimes, by…
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Good morning.
“We open at 5:30 am. Start your day off right.” It sounds like a great invitation in the morning. Who doesn’t want to start their day off right. Until you realize it’s an invitations from McDonald’s. I don’t know many people who start their day at McDonald’s saying they started their day off right. What…
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Don’t despise the day of small beginnings.
I’m learning that every little start counts. Every time I’ve worked on building habit, I’ve almost stopped before I began, because I knew it wouldn’t be enough just to start. And I knew that the start would not be my best. I was talking with my friend yesterday about the process of writing. He’s been…
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It’s not about the Ring.
The Return of the King. By JRR Tolkien ‘Precious, precious, precious!’ Gollum cried. ‘My Precious! O my Precious!’ And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the…
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Preparation and Opportunity
John Wooden said that the day of opportunity is too late for preparation. This has been even more real to me in the process after the layoff I experienced in January. Something completely out of the blue, not expected, nor welcomed, and yet, I feel like I’m able to look forward with opportunity, and not…
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In the middle of the trilogy: The Two Towers
By: JRR Tolkien ‘I don’t like anything here at all,’ said Frodo, ‘step or stone, breath or bone. Earth, air and water all seem accursed. But so our path is laid.’ ‘Yes, that’s so,’ said Sam. ‘And we should not be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I…
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Just to remind you.
I was listening to an interview the other day with Patrick Lencioni. Craig Groeschel invited him on his podcast to share about his newest book, The 6 Types of Working Genius, and, as Craig Groeschel often does, asked his guest his favorite leadership quote. Patrick Lencioni responded with this: “Men more frequently require to be…
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Keep showing up.
Originals. By Adam Grant “The starting point is curiosity: pondering why the default exists in the first place.” Adam Grant, Originals Authenticity. We hear this word a lot in today’s world. Be authentic. Be original. Be real. Be yourself. (Every time I hear the words, “be yourself” I can’t help but hear Robin Williams’s voice…
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