Mindset – Inner Game
Less than an hour after the tornado hit, the storm chasing opportunists showed up on our street… …handing out business cards… …offering to fly a drone over your house to assess the damage… …promising to solve all your problems — quickly. They said they had teams and supplies ready. They were on this. They knew…
What does a pro hockey player know about running a business? Plenty, I think, after hearing Ryan Suter talk about whatās kept him in the league so long. Last week, he played his 1,500th National Hockey League game. (Thatās A LOT of hockey games.) When a reporter asked him how he lasted so long he…
According to my handy-dandy holiday calendar, today is National Donāt Cry Over Spilled Milk Day. Strange holiday. Good adivice. More good advice: Donāt Shrug Over Spilled Milkshakes The backstoryā¦ A few years back, my daughter Maddie and I ordered for delivery cheeseburgers and milkshakes from Shake Shack. IĀ ā¤ļøĀ Shake Shackās strawberry shake. So when the delivery app told…
Twenty-eight years ago today, our twins Maddie and Jake were born. THE happiest day for Melissa and me. Angels straight from heaven.Ā š Fast forward three days. Itās 4 a.m. The demon children are howling.Ā šæ Maddie wails and wails and wails then stops. Jake steps in and shrieks and shrieks and shrieks and then stops. Maddie…
A very short story about the power of stories: Once upon a time, a business professor at Stanford University asked his students to give one-minute speeches with three statistics and one story. After passing some time following the speeches, the professor quizzed his students on what they heard. Only five percent remembered a single statistic.…
Quick questions for you (please reply)ā¦ If you could significantly boost your profits, what would that mean for you? What would you do that you currently canāt? What aspirations would you fulfill? How would it transform your life? How would it transform others you serve? Hereās why I askā¦ In yesterdayās email about goal-setting and…
Once upon a time, human beings believed a four-minute mile was impossible. For thousands and thousands and thousands of years, humans ran and raced, and not one achieved the four-minute mile (at least not one measured by an authorized track-and-field organizationĀ š). And then, in May 1954, Roger Bannister did it. Seven weeks later, John Landy…
Before you beat on the AI E-Z Button again, you have to hear this oneā¦ Yesterday, as I was celebrating Word Nerd Day, I grabbed a cup of jo with my AI-powered copywriting robot, B-9(?). I mentioned the holiday and observed, āThere arenāt many holiday names that rhyme.ā In fact, I couldnāt think of any…
Season 2, Episode 12 of the great Apple TV series Shrinking: Gaby is struggling to act. She knows what she needs to do. But sheās WAY outside her comfort zone. Itās āscary,ā she says. Her friend Liz replies: Just do it. And then their friend Aliyah chimes in: āYou know, bravery isnāt about not being scared;…
Yesterday, I got an email from “Customer Service” with a subject line that started with “URGENT…” Of course, I opened it because… …well… …it was from “Customer Service…” …and it was “URGENT.” I thought it might be a scam, but what if it was real? What if I ignored something truly urgent regarding my account?…