Posts Tagged ‘success’

MAP

Stop learning and start living.



There is no big lesson to learn.

There is no big prize for being the best.



Who could be better than you anyway?  Each and every all of you.  continue →

Another short but worthwhile reminder from Seth Godin.  A couple of days ago he wrote

You can’t have success unless you’re prepared to have failure.

As soon as you say, “failure is not an option,” you’ve just said, “innovation is not an option.”

But what he doesn’t say that needs to be said is  continue →

MAP

So what are you going to do?

What do you mean?

What are you going to do with yourself?  What direction are you going to head?

This is a trick question, right?  The answer should be what am I going to be with myself and allow the doing to follow from that.

That would be a good approach.  You might very well find continue →

MAP

It seems the question of the day is supposed to be “what next?”  So …

what next?

What when?

I don’t get it.

Neither do I.  What are you really trying to ask?  continue →

but rarely [do organizations or people] take the pro-active steps necessary to fail quietly, and often, in private, in advance, when there’s still time to make things better

Seth Godin

This is a much better way to fail – on purpose.  When you know up front when you’re going to fail, the F word is not so scary … actually quite liberating in fact.

Seth’s list of when to fail – and not – makes a whole lotta sense.

MAP

Hold onto your hats.  The tide is about to turn.

The whirlwind you have been anticipating is right around the corner.

Step into it and let it propel you to new heights.

There is no reason to be afraid.  No reason to be concerned.  continue →