Posts Tagged ‘patterns’
Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Business
Monday, August 22nd, 2011Masterpieces
Saturday, April 30th, 2011Shipping isn’t focused on producing a masterpiece, but all masterpieces get shipped.
– Seth Godin
How to Beat Distraction and Create
Monday, November 15th, 2010If the problem is that these separate processes of creating, consuming and communicating get in the way of each other, the solution is obvious: we need to separate the processes. We need to create at different times than we consume and communicate.
– Focus
Do not make it bigger
Saturday, October 9th, 2010The Do Lectures 2010 went well. Like better than I had hoped. When something goes well, there is always the temptation to make it bigger. But I remember Steve Glenn saying to me in the legendary Bwthan pub, “Everyone will want you to make it bigger, ignore them. Make it better. But keep it like this. This is amazing. Keep it special.” The good thing is we can’t make the tent any bigger, we can’t make forest any bigger. Having those physical limitations helps. So all we can work on is making it more special.
How Innovation Happens
Saturday, September 25th, 2010Although this video is originally titled “Where good ideas come from” I think “How innovation happens” describes much better what the speaker is talking about.
We Are What We Repeatedly Do
Friday, August 27th, 2010We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
– Aristotle
Most people look at life like this
Friday, August 27th, 2010have -> do -> be
When I have or get this in my life, then I will be able to do that, and then I’ll be this (secure, happy, peaceful, powerful).
Enlightened people look at it exactly the opposite.
be -> do -> have
I become the person that I need to be to be able to do whatever it takes to have whatever I want.
– T Harv Eker
How do you know when somebody gets GTD?
Sunday, August 1st, 2010It’s very simple. If they at all feel out of control or if they feel they have not the right focus, they know exactly how to get back to it, by themselves. That’s how I got a black belt in karate (“if you can train yourself”). Doesn’t have to mean you’re always in shape but if you know how to get yourself back in shape because you know the game and you know how to put yourself into the game when required, that’s it.
So, if you’re feeling out of control in any situation and you know how to get that control, or you’re feeling like I don’t have the right focus right now and I need to get the right focus. If you know how to do both of those, you’re on.
– David Allen @ 27:14
Practice
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Practice makes permanent.
Patterns
Saturday, June 12th, 2010We go based on the patterns that have worked before to get us where we’ve got, as if where we are is exactly where we want to be.
– T Harv Eker