Are you succeeding?

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  Roombas are robotic vacuum cleaners.  The roll around the floor vacuuming your room while you’re away.  They are successful because they keep moving after they encounter an obstacle.  They If they didn’t do this, they’d just suck.  They are successful because they succeed. Most ladders have many rungs.  We succeed from rung to rung […]

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This, I believe.

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  His wife said, “This is going to be hugely successful.”   “How do you know?” he asked.  “With every other business there’s been a hesitation.  You’d always ask the question, “what do you think I should do?   Now, you have no doubt.” Confident = With Faith He believes.  In his idea.  In his team. […]

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Is it about time?

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  I left the house this morning at 6:30am.  2 hours earlier than usual.  I usually help with feeding, changing, playing with the girls.  This morning, I had a 7 am meeting.  I didn’t even get to say good morning to the girls.  And Jen had to manage the juggling act of caring and feeding […]

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Easy to please. Easier to displease.

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  My wife, Jen, was exasperated with me.  I don’t remember what the back and forth was about.  There are too many times to choose from. “You’re so hard to please!” she said. “No, I’m not.  I’m easy to please … I’m just easier to displease.” This is not the best thing to think about […]

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Who are you to decide?

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  “She’s not interested,” is what I thought to myself. I use my calendar for a to do list.  If something doesn’t get done, I just drag it to another day.  I looked over calls I didn’t make yesterday, dragging them to new time slots.  I picked this idea up from Peter Bregman.  I was […]

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Ask, Don’t Tell?

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  My friend’s team was filled with some ridiculously smart people.  They were smart with technology. They just weren’t people smart.  He was telling me about the challenges they had working together. I had lunch with another friend a couple of months ago.  He told me how he had learned to make people be part […]

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How much is pain worth?

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  He said, “You know how we have to protect the foundation.  Sometime we have to be aggressive.”  I was talking to a friend I used to work with.  He worked on a team that had an us vs. them mentality.  It created issues sometimes. They didn’t always ask the questions they needed answered when […]

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How to have your cake and eat it, too.

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I watched the 4 year old boy try to get entire cake from mom.  Like a good mother, she does not allow the 4 year old to have the whole cake.  She offers a bite.  He refuses it.  He wants the entire thing. Think big.  Push boundaries.  Be bold.  Be unreasonable about what you want […]

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How are you making it easier?

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I’m beating this horse this week. The girls stopped eating.  We found out their bottles flow rating was too low.  Babies won’t work too hard to eat.  They’d rather not eat … then drive their parent crazy as the scream because they’re hungry. We bought them new nipples.  They make it much easier for the […]

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What why are you giving?

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  I learned recently that babies won’t work too hard to eat.  They’ll stop eating if their nipple makes them work to get the milk.  We learned this because our girls stopped eating a few weeks ago.  We bought new nipples with higher flow.  They ate faster than ever. Babies don’t know that food is […]

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