Become an idea kiosk. Read widely and grab from everywhere. Challenge ourselves to unearth three ideas daily...over a thousand a year.
1. Ideas, like seeds, need support.
2. Great ideas get rejected. Polaroid turned down digital photography.
3. Rebrand failure as success. Imperfect glue became Post-It notes.
4. Work to see truth not buy deception.
5. Invest 'thinking time'
Cultivate great ideas.
- Player development (or recruiting) is primary
- What hinders us? Reduce it.
- How did I work on my craft today?
Remember Sara Blakely's triad:
- Make it (product/process). Obsess the product.
- Sell it (get buy in by showing players how it helps them).
- Build brand awareness.
Key points:
- Invest time in finding and executing ideas. Unearth 3 daily.
- Evolve key ideas (e.g. early offense, PnR defense, offensive rebounding). Get players to buy-in for their good
- Obsess the product. It pays.
- Need your book read to you? Check out the lagniappe below.
Lagniappe. "Great offense is multiple actions." Study the fine details in short clips.
Lagniappe 2. Here's a "free" idea. Download the Alexa app and ask it to read from your Kindle library when you walk. It works.
Lagniappe 3. Last night I scraped together a fabulous dinner from humble ingredients.
Turkey burger on French Bread
Ingredients:
- One pound ground turkey (defrosted to room temperature)
- Half of one yellow onion (1/2 sliced and 1/2 diced)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoon hot sauce (I used Frank's Red Hot)
Combine ingredients into 3 burgers. Cook, top with your favorite cheese
Sautee the sliced onion in a dollop of olive oil, add a teaspoon of sugar after a minute, add salt and use as a topping
Special sauce:
- 1 1/2 teasp mayonnaise
- 1 1/2 teasp ketchup
- 1 teasp mustard
- 3/4 teasp Old Bay seasoning (I substituted Emeril's Bayou Blast)
I had a side of Yukon Gold potato wedges, coated with olive oil and seasoned with garlic salt and pepper, roast for 20-25 minutes at 400 degrees