It's not the day you have to manage my friend, but the moment.
It's not the dragon you have to slay, but the fear.
And it's not the path you have to know, but the destination.
~b2
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Sunday's Spiritual (commitment): New Beginnings
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
~ Maria Robinson
Friends...As Sunday, July 3, 2011 comes to a close, we will fall asleep and awake for the first full work week of July.
Are you forever trying to go back and start a new beginning? Or are you prepared to leave the past in the past and start today on making a new ending for you and the ones you love?
What are your plans?
~b2
~ Maria Robinson
Friends...As Sunday, July 3, 2011 comes to a close, we will fall asleep and awake for the first full work week of July.
Are you forever trying to go back and start a new beginning? Or are you prepared to leave the past in the past and start today on making a new ending for you and the ones you love?
What are your plans?
~b2
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Saturday's Statement (just do it): Success Compression
Hello Everyone,
Yesterday, I spoke about facts, and a real opportunity that will help you change the facts that are holding you back both personally and professionally.
As always, my goal with this blog is to forward along many of the great inspirational & motivational pieces I come across IE: Read - So that you too can implement them into your life, and take advantage of them...
Success Compression:
Let me give you an example. Let’s say you and I are going to race from Los Angeles to New York City. We both have planes. You have a 747, which travels at a cruising speed of 875 mph. I have a mere Learjet, which travels at 400 mph. Now, if I fly straight through, but you have to land and take off in the 10 states in between—taxiing, parking and going through your preflight checklist before taking off again—who is going to win? Me. Even though you travel twice as fast in the air, I will still win because instead of wasting time repeatedly stopping and taking off, I just stay in flight. Even if I am traveling slower, I will still win—by a large margin.
This is how most people spend their days — constantly starting on projects, stopping to do something else, and then having to once again go through the process of getting their head back into the project and recapturing their rhythm - We've all done this - including me!!!
If you spend your day “multitasking,” you may not be getting a whole lot done. Days turn into weeks, months, years, and finally into a decade of constantly taking off and landing and not getting very far.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Recently I stumbled upon a strategy called Success Compression. The concept is that you can get more quality output by being supremely focused on an activity, by staying “in the zone” for a sustained period of time.
Upon learning this principle, I decided to start structuring my goals around 90-day cycles. Depending on what I wanted to accomplish, I would break the tasks into compressed chunks within those 90 days — three 30-day cycles.
When I read that my mentor built a large national distributorship faster than anyone else, for example, I've decided to follow his approach and focus solely on recruiting for 30 days.
Focusing on this task, and this task alone, I know I can get into a solid rhythm, getting hotter and hotter each day. I know I can recruit more in 30 days than I could in almost an entire quarter when mixing that activity with everything else.
The next 30 days could be dedicated to training those new IBOs, and the final 30 days within the Success Compression, I’ll be focused on their recognition & sorting leaders.
After that, I’ll start another 90-day cycle.
By compressing key tasks into extended windows of time, I believe staying in flight at the 400 mph rate will not only be easier, but I think that I'll truly start flying faster with the same energy applied and that my success was compressed (time)—and even multiplied (results)!
There is another great value to working in Success Cycles. We can only push so hard for so long without breaking down and burning out. The mind and body desire oscillation. Without it, we will turn to artificial means if needed: caffeine, amphetamines, alcohol, drugs or sleeping pills, etc. You cannot keep an intense focus for too long without time for recovery. When we relentlessly spend energy without allowing for sufficient recovery, we become mental and emotional flat-liners. We slowly, but inexorably, wear down.
Flavius Philostratus (170-245) wrote training manuals for Greek athletes and perfected what he called “work-rest ratios.” Russian sports scientists resurrected his principles in the ’60s and applied it with stunning success to their Olympic athletes. The theory explains that a period of activity must be followed by a period of rest to allow the body to replenish fundamental biochemical sources of energy. This is called compensation.
There are two common problems that affect performance: under-training and over training. Under-training is obvious, but over training causes equally damaging performance consequences that include persistent injury, sickness, anxiety, negativity, anger, difficulty concentrating, loss of passion and mental staleness. Over training causes toxins to build up inside us that lead to burnout and breakdown.
To build muscle, you must use focused intensity to stress and test the muscle. But only in recovery does it grow back bigger and stronger than it was originally. If you keep challenging the muscle without giving it time to recover, you will only continue to break it down.
Ever see a marathon runner? Even though they are working their muscles, they typically have little muscle mass. They are constantly destroying their muscles without giving them a chance to recover and rebuild.
That is what happens to your creative potential if you do not build recovery time into your annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and even daily cycles. Without recovery time, you hurt your performance and stunt your growth.
Here is what was suggested to me...
You're going to break your year down into quarters. You'll then pick a main theme for each quarter—one major area of focus. Then you'll break down the three months into supporting acts to the play of the quarter. Then pick a few key behaviors to focus on during each month in that quarter.
Let me give you an example that I read...
During one of the quarters last year, my mentor decided he was going to figure out and get serious about this social media thing. He didn’t even have a Twitter account (didn’t really know what it was or what it was used for), hadn’t been on Facebook more than twice ever and had about 20 connections on LinkedIn. He decided it was going to be the quarter of social media.
Then he picked a platform for each month: Month 1: LinkedIn, Month 2: Twitter, Month 3: Facebook. He chunked it down even further so that for the first three days of each month, He did nothing but learn everything He possibly could about that one platform — how it worked and how to work it.
Then he devoted an inordinate amount of time to that particular social media platform compared to the rest of my responsibilities that month.
The bottom line is, after that quarter, he had built a following on each platform (LinkedIn: several thousand, Facebook: almost 5,000, Twitter: 58,000) bigger and faster than many people I know who are still “multitasking” with it.
After that quarter of focused effort, he spends very little time maintaining those networks, but they continue to grow on their own because he put so much effort into getting them off the ground. It’s like the rocket example: Ninety percent more energy is expended getting it 3 feet off the ground than is used to orbit all the way around the earth. Most people don’t ever expend enough focused energy to get off the ground.
Here is the recommended formula:
1. Pick a theme for each quarter of the year that represents a major priority to accomplishing your overall 2010 goals.
2. Break the quarter down into cycles: three four-week cycles, two six-week cycles or four three-week cycles—whatever makes the most sense.
3. Define the key behaviors needed for each cycle.
4. Spend the first few days of each cycle “launching” the cycle with intense focused effort.
Here's hoping this all makes sense to you. I re-read this strategy a couple of times before it truly sunk in for me.
I am committed to trying it - question is, are you?
~b2
Yesterday, I spoke about facts, and a real opportunity that will help you change the facts that are holding you back both personally and professionally.
As always, my goal with this blog is to forward along many of the great inspirational & motivational pieces I come across IE: Read - So that you too can implement them into your life, and take advantage of them...
Success Compression:
Let me give you an example. Let’s say you and I are going to race from Los Angeles to New York City. We both have planes. You have a 747, which travels at a cruising speed of 875 mph. I have a mere Learjet, which travels at 400 mph. Now, if I fly straight through, but you have to land and take off in the 10 states in between—taxiing, parking and going through your preflight checklist before taking off again—who is going to win? Me. Even though you travel twice as fast in the air, I will still win because instead of wasting time repeatedly stopping and taking off, I just stay in flight. Even if I am traveling slower, I will still win—by a large margin.
This is how most people spend their days — constantly starting on projects, stopping to do something else, and then having to once again go through the process of getting their head back into the project and recapturing their rhythm - We've all done this - including me!!!
If you spend your day “multitasking,” you may not be getting a whole lot done. Days turn into weeks, months, years, and finally into a decade of constantly taking off and landing and not getting very far.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Recently I stumbled upon a strategy called Success Compression. The concept is that you can get more quality output by being supremely focused on an activity, by staying “in the zone” for a sustained period of time.
Upon learning this principle, I decided to start structuring my goals around 90-day cycles. Depending on what I wanted to accomplish, I would break the tasks into compressed chunks within those 90 days — three 30-day cycles.
When I read that my mentor built a large national distributorship faster than anyone else, for example, I've decided to follow his approach and focus solely on recruiting for 30 days.
Focusing on this task, and this task alone, I know I can get into a solid rhythm, getting hotter and hotter each day. I know I can recruit more in 30 days than I could in almost an entire quarter when mixing that activity with everything else.
The next 30 days could be dedicated to training those new IBOs, and the final 30 days within the Success Compression, I’ll be focused on their recognition & sorting leaders.
After that, I’ll start another 90-day cycle.
By compressing key tasks into extended windows of time, I believe staying in flight at the 400 mph rate will not only be easier, but I think that I'll truly start flying faster with the same energy applied and that my success was compressed (time)—and even multiplied (results)!
There is another great value to working in Success Cycles. We can only push so hard for so long without breaking down and burning out. The mind and body desire oscillation. Without it, we will turn to artificial means if needed: caffeine, amphetamines, alcohol, drugs or sleeping pills, etc. You cannot keep an intense focus for too long without time for recovery. When we relentlessly spend energy without allowing for sufficient recovery, we become mental and emotional flat-liners. We slowly, but inexorably, wear down.
Flavius Philostratus (170-245) wrote training manuals for Greek athletes and perfected what he called “work-rest ratios.” Russian sports scientists resurrected his principles in the ’60s and applied it with stunning success to their Olympic athletes. The theory explains that a period of activity must be followed by a period of rest to allow the body to replenish fundamental biochemical sources of energy. This is called compensation.
There are two common problems that affect performance: under-training and over training. Under-training is obvious, but over training causes equally damaging performance consequences that include persistent injury, sickness, anxiety, negativity, anger, difficulty concentrating, loss of passion and mental staleness. Over training causes toxins to build up inside us that lead to burnout and breakdown.
To build muscle, you must use focused intensity to stress and test the muscle. But only in recovery does it grow back bigger and stronger than it was originally. If you keep challenging the muscle without giving it time to recover, you will only continue to break it down.
Ever see a marathon runner? Even though they are working their muscles, they typically have little muscle mass. They are constantly destroying their muscles without giving them a chance to recover and rebuild.
That is what happens to your creative potential if you do not build recovery time into your annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and even daily cycles. Without recovery time, you hurt your performance and stunt your growth.
Here is what was suggested to me...
You're going to break your year down into quarters. You'll then pick a main theme for each quarter—one major area of focus. Then you'll break down the three months into supporting acts to the play of the quarter. Then pick a few key behaviors to focus on during each month in that quarter.
Let me give you an example that I read...
During one of the quarters last year, my mentor decided he was going to figure out and get serious about this social media thing. He didn’t even have a Twitter account (didn’t really know what it was or what it was used for), hadn’t been on Facebook more than twice ever and had about 20 connections on LinkedIn. He decided it was going to be the quarter of social media.
Then he picked a platform for each month: Month 1: LinkedIn, Month 2: Twitter, Month 3: Facebook. He chunked it down even further so that for the first three days of each month, He did nothing but learn everything He possibly could about that one platform — how it worked and how to work it.
Then he devoted an inordinate amount of time to that particular social media platform compared to the rest of my responsibilities that month.
The bottom line is, after that quarter, he had built a following on each platform (LinkedIn: several thousand, Facebook: almost 5,000, Twitter: 58,000) bigger and faster than many people I know who are still “multitasking” with it.
After that quarter of focused effort, he spends very little time maintaining those networks, but they continue to grow on their own because he put so much effort into getting them off the ground. It’s like the rocket example: Ninety percent more energy is expended getting it 3 feet off the ground than is used to orbit all the way around the earth. Most people don’t ever expend enough focused energy to get off the ground.
Here is the recommended formula:
1. Pick a theme for each quarter of the year that represents a major priority to accomplishing your overall 2010 goals.
2. Break the quarter down into cycles: three four-week cycles, two six-week cycles or four three-week cycles—whatever makes the most sense.
3. Define the key behaviors needed for each cycle.
4. Spend the first few days of each cycle “launching” the cycle with intense focused effort.
Here's hoping this all makes sense to you. I re-read this strategy a couple of times before it truly sunk in for me.
I am committed to trying it - question is, are you?
~b2
Friday, July 1, 2011
Friday's Facts: Success Cycles
Today's Fact is...
It's Canada Day - Happy Canada Day Everyone...
Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united three British colonies into a single country, called Canada, within the British Empire.[1][2][3] Originally called Dominion Day, the name was changed in 1982, the year that Canada gained full independence from the United Kingdom. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.
In addition to the obvious (Canada Day) - There's another "fact" I want to make note of today and that's - We Are Human !!!
Yes, we are human - We cannot be 100 percent 100 percent of the time.
We cannot improve every area of our life simultaneously.
We cannot do everything at the same time.
When we try to do everything at the same time, we fail, burn out or blow up.
Nature works in cycles. As with the seasons, there is a time to learn, a time to produce, a time to harvest and a time to rest. Farmers, schoolchildren, and even professional athletes operate in seasons. That approach to life can help you excel, too.
I want to explain an advanced achievement strategy that I recently stumbled upon IE: Read - That will help both you (and I) make greater progress towards our goals...FASTER.
It’s a concept called: Working in Success Cycles.
Please come back tomorrow for Saturday's Statement (just do it) for the first of many steps in Success Cycles...
Until then, have an incredibly relaxing, family-filled Canada Day - You Deserve It!!!
~b2
It's Canada Day - Happy Canada Day Everyone...
Canada Day (French: Fête du Canada), formerly Dominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united three British colonies into a single country, called Canada, within the British Empire.[1][2][3] Originally called Dominion Day, the name was changed in 1982, the year that Canada gained full independence from the United Kingdom. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.
In addition to the obvious (Canada Day) - There's another "fact" I want to make note of today and that's - We Are Human !!!
Yes, we are human - We cannot be 100 percent 100 percent of the time.
We cannot improve every area of our life simultaneously.
We cannot do everything at the same time.
When we try to do everything at the same time, we fail, burn out or blow up.
Nature works in cycles. As with the seasons, there is a time to learn, a time to produce, a time to harvest and a time to rest. Farmers, schoolchildren, and even professional athletes operate in seasons. That approach to life can help you excel, too.
I want to explain an advanced achievement strategy that I recently stumbled upon IE: Read - That will help both you (and I) make greater progress towards our goals...FASTER.
It’s a concept called: Working in Success Cycles.
Please come back tomorrow for Saturday's Statement (just do it) for the first of many steps in Success Cycles...
Until then, have an incredibly relaxing, family-filled Canada Day - You Deserve It!!!
~b2
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tuesday's Tidbits: Energy
Courtesy of Timéa Szalay...
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." - Oprah
Question...
Do you ever think about your energy? How you use it in your regular day to day?
I'm not talking about the energy that gets you up in the morning and off to work, but instead the energy you have/use when focusing on completing your to do list; your daily/weekly/monthly or yearly goals; The energy you use when working with others to partner in a common goal?
I always remind myself prior to every single meeting that my positive upbeat energy will encourage others to work with me vs against me...
Feel free to share your comment below...
~b2
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus." - Oprah
Question...
Do you ever think about your energy? How you use it in your regular day to day?
I'm not talking about the energy that gets you up in the morning and off to work, but instead the energy you have/use when focusing on completing your to do list; your daily/weekly/monthly or yearly goals; The energy you use when working with others to partner in a common goal?
I always remind myself prior to every single meeting that my positive upbeat energy will encourage others to work with me vs against me...
Feel free to share your comment below...
~b2
Monday, June 20, 2011
Monday Morning's Motivation: Motivation
The aim of the motivational speech or reading is to get the audience acting or changing their behavior or beliefs in some way. To try to strengthen their commitment and at least get them to agree with your like-minded proposal, thoughts or beliefs.
For me, it's watching or reading inspirational speeches, presentation or trainings on how to better yourself, both personally & professionally, in this ridiculously competitive world in which we live.
People like Greg Provenzano, George Zalucki, Larry Raskin, Darren Hardy and others, seems to make a real and lasting connection with me personally.
My questions is...
What is it, or whom is it, that motivates you?
Please feel free to list what it is that gets you up and going in the positive, like-minded direction you've set for yourself...
~b2
For me, it's watching or reading inspirational speeches, presentation or trainings on how to better yourself, both personally & professionally, in this ridiculously competitive world in which we live.
People like Greg Provenzano, George Zalucki, Larry Raskin, Darren Hardy and others, seems to make a real and lasting connection with me personally.
My questions is...
What is it, or whom is it, that motivates you?
Please feel free to list what it is that gets you up and going in the positive, like-minded direction you've set for yourself...
~b2
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sunday's Spiritual (commitment): Father's
"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."
-- Billy Graham
A special message to all the Father's out there spending time with their children.
~b2
-- Billy Graham
A special message to all the Father's out there spending time with their children.
~b2
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