The lady who ran my business in England worked very hard. She ‘opened’ that country and, within a couple of years, did literally millions in sales. At one point I asked her when was her last vacation. She said, “Oh, there’ll be plenty of time for that later.” So it’s been a couple of years. “Yes.” OK, here’s a direct order. Take a vacation. “Don’t be silly” she said, “I have far too much to do.” I repeat. It’s an order. She took a couple of weeks off at Christmas and visited Disney in Florida. In January she said, “You were right. I am amazed how I was sliding without knowing it. It was happening so gradually I simply did not realize it. Now I’m rested, I make decisions better and much faster.” All my life I have been too busy to do the things I consider non-business. Yet if I’m at one meeting I certainly can not be at another one at the same time. And that does not ruin my business. So I ‘schedule’ my wife in, like an appointment. It’s worked for our 44 years of marriage. (And the business became a million a day sales!) If things are not going well for you, that’s when to schedule some time out. Not to work harder. But to take time out. So things will improve. ————————– To reinforce this read any two below: # 6 Feed Yourself – 9 Worry – 55 Oxygen – 73 Killing Frogs – 164 20%
Leadership
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187 99% or 1%
It always has to add up to 100% The very first satellite was a simple radio transmitter sending “Beep, Beep” (1%) It took many huge radio telescopes to track that signal. (99%) Today we ‘position’ satellites costing multi-billions in the sky. (99%) And almost any simple television dish can pickup those signals. (1%) In both cases a certain amount of work has to be done. (100%) So if you want to succeed at something, (business, family, writing a book, etc.) either you do the work or the other person has to. Quite often looking around for something on a web site is too much work. So I just quit trying. They obviously did not do the work, so I would have to. Because it always has to add up to 100% In whatever situation you are in, if you do not do most of the work (99%) chances are nobody else will want to. If things are not working out for you, ask your self how much work you are doing. Then do enough to bring it to 99% And just watch how quickly people do the remaining 1% ————————– These are related: # 24 The Wedge – 95 Ring/Knock – 107 Iron – 119 Gears – 136 Beggars & Alcoholics 163 When I Grow Up – 164 20%
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184 Outside In
Things from the ‘outside’ (world) influence you. Outside In.
Or are influenced by you. Inside Out.
Obvious. So why say this?
Because those things from the ‘outside’ you don’t want to influence you, can easily be eliminated.
Use your inner understanding of how it is when you – the inner you – are the dominant force. You already do this in many, many things you neutralize so effectively using the inner self to influence the outer world. Inside Out.
If you are doing it for anything at all, it can be applied to everything else.
Usually the length of time something’s been happening implies it would take more than what you have, to change it.
Not true!
You already use your inner self to prevail in those things where you do prevail. Just apply that already successful thinking /attitude, to whatever comes from the exterior and dominates you.
Someone calls to ask you to go out. You don’t want to. Yet you normally give in and go out.
Think of how you influence something you do influence, and apply that to your next invite. See how easily it changes to inner – influencing – outer. And do what you want.
Start with something small and become an Inside Out person.
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# 7 Disaster – 18 Being Triggered – 31 Being at-Cause – 43 Desire – 48 Saying No
113 Success – 136 Beggars & Alcoholics – 142 Progression – 143 Progression Part 2
162 Consider the Source – 172 Sky or Steel?
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169 Scaffold
Think of your role in everything you do, every interaction you have, every person you meet, with every family member, as being only one thing.
You are a scaffold to them.
Which, by the way, is how they – who have their own life to live, whether you like it or not – see you.
Ideally you exist beside them.
Neither helping nor hindering their activities.
You simply (!) are a framework, aside from where they are building, so they do all the work, build all the confidence and take all the credit. (If you do it right!)
You have a lot of work to do in doing this.
You have to be there but not there, if you see what I mean.
You have to support silently but definitely.
You have to be there always but always in a support capacity.
And this applies specially to family, friends and work mates.
That is when I have my best feelings. When I know I played ‘scaffold’ in someone’s life.
As a parent you are a scaffold and not the sole determiner of their future or their experiences.
When my parents were adamant about me not smoking I simply hid my cigarettes in the back yard. And smoked all I wished.
Whereas they were a scaffold regarding alcohol.
I even drank too much. Once.
They put me to bed. (Scaffold at work.)
And I never really drank too much again.
If things are not going well, just back off and become more of a scaffold, and things will improve dramatically.
People will think you are a great person. Which, as a scaffold, you are.
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# 11 Feedback – 27 Responses – 63 Free Will – 98 Third Time – 99 Perfection! – 104 Power
113 Success – 121 Carrot & Stick – 145 NO Feedback
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160 Combination
The secret is almost always to find the right combination.
To succeed you need the right combination of People, Product, Plan.
If all that was needed to truly succeed was a Product, then all the people who invent products would be rich.
And they are not.
If all you need is Money, then why are the people with money constantly on the lookout for … Product.
And they are.
If all you need is a ‘good’ man, then all a good man has to do is stay in bed and riches will flood his way.
And they do not.
Looking back at my most successful enterprises I see how absolutely no one and no thing was the ‘best’ available.
Yet the combination ‘worked’ for all concerned.
So if you want to progress, stop thinking just one thing would do the trick.
(If only I had the right … Product? … Plan? … People-with-money?)
And see if a combination, now that you look for it, isn’t already there just waiting for you to notice it.
And if it isn’t, then work towards creating, … a combination.
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# 37 Or Its Equivalent – 74 Dictating Your Miracle – 117 Gold Mine