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Effort
- "Champions do extra."
- "Do the unrequired work."
- Author Dan Pink says, "do five more."
- "How you do anything is how you do everything."
- Make effort your superpower.
- "Always do your best," one of the 'Four Agreements'
Choices
- Are you spending your time or investing it? Invest in yourself.
- You become the average of the five people closest to you.
- Study more effectively, using Pomodoro technique (25 minutes on, 5 off).
- Approach problems better with Feynman technique (name, define, research, summarize).
- Do "Whatever it takes" to become successful.
- Avoid distraction from doing what it takes.
- Find mentors. "Mentoring is the only shortcut to success."
- Be coachable.
- Find "edges" to improve your performance.
- Be an "AND" player, not a "BUT" player. Don't have coaches qualify your talent with "but she has issues."
- Study your mentors' mentors. Usher studied Michael Jackson's and James Brown's mentors.
- Build great habits.
- Put process ahead of results. "Trust the process."
- Put people ahead of things. Put the person ahead of the player.
- Learn to use analogies.
- Ask better questions. "What if?"
- Be positive. A negative attitude never yields positive life.
- Bring energy and energize your teammates.
- Great players make everyone around them better.
- Bring the best version of yourself each day.
- Choose "get to" not "have to." I 'get to' work hard today.
Lagniappe (something extra).
Everything you say yes to is saying no to something else:
— Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday) May 13, 2023
Taking the meeting means saying no to an hour of reading. Scrolling mindlessly late at night means saying no to a productive morning. The Zoom call means saying no to some deep work.
Pick your shots. Say no.
Lagniappe 2.
Got a big that can handle?
— Matt Hackenberg (@CoachHackGO) May 16, 2023
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