In life, we are growing or we are dying. There is no such thing as maintaining. We insist on being better today than we were yesterday. We demand the best from ourselves.
Importantly, growth only comes through attempting things we cannot yet do. Try fast, fail forward, grow & improve faster than the rest of the market. We stay ahead of the market because we are always working on what’s next and always improving what already is.
Fire Yourself, Be An Owner
Everyone’s actions produce outcomes. Own your actions and your outcomes. Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else ever could. Everyone is a leader. Even those who don’t know it. Everyone on the team exists to make the team better.
Candor
Nothing inhibits progress like lack of clarity. Frank & direct communication leads to excellence. We don’t sugarcoat information or feedback. We don’t hide from data.
The more a person can be exposed to and handle uncomfortable truthful conversations, the more that person will grow. By withholding or softening the truth, we withhold the ability for an individual to understand the truth and to grow.
Be The Change
BE means NOW. It implies speed. Implies conviction. It implies decisiveness. It implies NO PLAN B. It implies MASSIVE ACTION.
Nothing changes without convicted, decisive action. It doesn’t mean perfect. Mistakes happen. However, nothing moves forward without forward action.
Being the change means mindsets have changed. It means skills get developed. It means character traits improve. You have to BE the thing before you get the benefits of being the thing.
Actions Are Greater Than Intentions
We all intend on doing well. We all intend on doing good. However, few actually do well. Most merely do OKAY….good enough.
The difference is actions. Action is BORING. Dreaming, intending, thinking, planning…these things are easy. These things get people excited. Doing the boring work, laying one brick at a time, excites nobody.
Doing the things which our competition will not do. Making a mistake and insisting on redoing it correctly before you turn off your computer for the day. Doing it better, no matter the short term cost so you can realize the long term benefit. These little actions, done continuously every single day keep us light years ahead of our competition.
