High Expectations.

I hate when I screw up.









To me, there is no worse feeling in the world.

"When I started counting the number of times I 'dropped the ball', I started making fewer mistakes."

Not to say I make a lot of mistakes (I'd like to think I'm pretty regular in a few life categories), but to say, when I started paying more attention to what I was doing, I didn't screw up as much.

So now when I do experience a missed opportunity to make a better decision (you like how I said that right...I know, I know. Genius), I get really upset with myself.

I've heard the old saying, "nobody's perfect" before, many times (obviously there is some truth to it), but if we accept it, then everyone would be making crazy decisions all willy nilly. ...No regard for rules or regulations...complete anarchy. I digress.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, I get people make mistakes, but I prefer not to. I have found that if I expect perfection, and truly hold myself accountable; I will be able to consistently perform and a very high level.

Maybe that makes me different.

- Rule #2 - 

Expect to succeed and you will.

In Time

"The 10,000 hour", to quote Malcolm Gladwell (not exactly but pretty close), "is the amount of time it takes to master a particular skill or talent."

So for instance, if it takes you 1 hour to cut a friends hair, and you had a lot of friends that wanted to have their hair cut by you...lets say 10,000 times.

I think by the time you were done with that task you would know a thing or two about cutting hair. Agree?

You become an expert.

Think about it like driving; lets say you just got a car and you drive it 60,000 miles over the next 5-6 years. You would feel very comfortable behind the wheel of that car...correct?... I think you get it...

I have hit my 10,000th hour. Have you hit yours?

Check out the book. Its a great read.

Compelling Reasons - Part 2

Mentoring young business professionals is a great opportunity to get a different perspective on things, I highly recommend it. During a coaching session one my men-tees (spell check did that...) asked me, "What motivates you?"

Essentially what she was asking was, what are your compelling reasons.

That has been my favorite topic to ponder lately. Well, I've come to the conclusion there are a ton. Which I guess is a good and a bad thing given the amount of direst I've been under trying to figure this mystery out.  

Tony Robbins suggests that most people's compelling reasons can be separated into two (that's right 2, count'em people) categories.

1. The desire to avoid pain
2. The desire to get pleasure 

Yup, that's right...everything you do is because of one of the above. It makes logical sense (iGuess). Either way, I challenge you to think about what motivates you, your own "compelling reasons".

"By understanding what makes you keep going you can continuously push yourself through any difficult situation."

Me, I do it to avoid the pain. It's actually a medical condition:

Athazagoraphobia (n) - Fear of being forgotten, ignored, or replaced.

LEVEL UP!

I got promoted today. That is all...

"Focus on getting promoted or reaching a new level in whatever you do for financial stability at least once every 365 days."

You will achieve amazing things in a very short period of time. 

Compelling Reasons

I do a lot of self-development, and the audio instruction I am listening to currently, discussed compelling reasons for customers and prospects to "buy" now. So to get us, the listeners, in the right mind-frame, our homework was to develop and write down the emotional reasons WHY we are going to commit to completing the audio training (All 10 Days) and follow through by practicing what we learn on a daily basis.

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I didn't do the homework (I hate homework; ask any one of my teachers from K-12), but I did give it some serious thought. My compelling emotional reasons to be committed and follow through are simple, in fact, there is only one.

I said I was going to do it.

For the past 9-10 months my main focus on a daily basis has been to follow through on the commitments I make to myself, my wife, and everyone else. For a long time I struggled with this and it is getting better, but it only started getting better once I made a concentrated effort to follow through.

Sometimes its good to remind ourselves "why" we do the things that we do.

What are your compelling reasons?



Damn that sax...its so good, once it hits the lips...its so good.

Choose

As I looked around I saw hundreds of people around me. Of all different nations and races. Some were older and some younger, but they all had one very important thing in common. They had reached a point where they had to choose. Choose what they were going to do, how they were going to live, and who they were going to be. For some the choice was so simple and obvious it was as though they had no choice at all, but for others the choice was not so easy. It brought their whole reality crashing down around them and made them fear the events to come.

For days on end they would go sleepless, lying in bed contemplating what lay ahead. Their energy was significantly diminished and their will to continue was lost. Although all around them they saw the decay of those who chose the wrong path, their fear of change engulfed them and they became the living dead; a piece of the decay around them.

And then there were still others who had learned on their path to this choice a series of lessons that would teach them to understand that there are those who were willing to help. Those, for whom the choice was obvious, who could understand their struggle to choose correctly and assist them in making a better decision. Though these "others" are called proteges and usually carry the glory of changing nations, it is those who teach them, the "helpers" who determine the fate of the world.

-Anonymous

Whoops Ima Genius

I really like people who inspire me to do creative things- most creativity actully happens on accident. I should tell you what made me think to do this but it would make this just seem like something that you could have thought of doing, thus making it n0t that special. If you read this and think: "I should give this a try, mine would be so much better" then you are on the right track to utilizing all of your creative ability. I dont think that anything is original...PAUSE...but everything is original at the same time- meaning everthing comes from somewhere and it just depends on who has the thought first how it is portrayed and how it becomes something different or more "original" than anything else. Everyone has a creative light you just have to figure out how to use it. Just be different...this is what you were made for (or be the same, whichever one you feel is more fitting for you.

Peace I'm Out :)

Im sure you'd disagree

Originality is the ART of concealing your SOURCES...

Im on a roll these days YODA

Thinkin it thru

The choices we make determine who we are...

So if you just cant choose does that make you nobody?

Confused much-Ill say so...

Hope Springs Eternal...

Today was rough- no other words to describe it...just rough

But the reason i am writing this is not to vent but to let everyone know that GOD is the man. Im not tryna preach (well actually i am...i dont know why people say that right before they talk about religion), but today was one of those days where i just wanted to just give up. What did i do you ask!

I PRAYED.

Lets just say the MAN upstairs came thru (as he always does)...I got lost in probably the most beautiful place ever. I think it was so "purdy" cuz it reminded me of home, and boy oh boy do i miss that place, but then HE got me thinking about slowing things down...when im home everything is smooth and calm but things still get done; this city life made me forget that a little bit. But i sure do remember now!

So a little piece of advice for everyone who is having a rough day, week, month, year, decade, life...SLOW DOWN, NEVER GIVE UP, and ALWAYS HAVE FAITH becasue it always works out, maybe not the way you want it to, but things always work out.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;

Man never Is, but always To be blest:

The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,

Rests and expatiates in a life to come.

-Alexander Pope

On some other

Lets say we rewind to a place before i was sitting here at my computer typing these words. what would i have done that would change where i was right now. sometimes we do things that we think may change where we end up but in actuality all we do is perpetuate our fate and bring us to the exact same place that we would have ended up anyways. think about what you were doing earlier today...now if you could go back and change one thing where would that put you right now?

thinking about how much control you REALLY have over the things that happen to you makes you wonder. how much is fate, how much is divine intervention, and still how much is a result of something someone else did a long time ago (relatively speaking).

Just some ill s*** i was thinkin about today at work with my lady friend (Little Miss Sunshine thats you baby).

Word Play

I've been online looking at a lot of posts and notes here and there about how terrible men are...maybe its just a coincidence but it really kind of irked me, so instead of being immature and writing a long thing about women I figured I would enlighten you all using my favorite subject...MATH

President: Barack or Hillary

I dunno...

I came across this today...needless to say the results stung a little, but ill take it as motivation to do better.

Test Yours!