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We work our butts off, and do everything we can for business success. Many times it feels like I’m so tied up in it that there’s nothing else.
Then something comes up that makes me realize there are more important things.
My mother died recently, so of course there a lot of logistical things to take care. But more important are the relationships I’m reconnecting, all over the world. And it’s fascinating to see how my friends and colleagues support me, even though they never met her.
Read the rest of this entry »We have a new term for overloading yourself with negative information: Doomscrolling.
If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it refers to spending too much time on your newsfeed, looking for the next thing to worry about. And right now, people are capturing a whole lot to worry about.
It occurred to me, though, that this is just the most recent form of something which has existed for my entire lifetime:
- The need to keep current with all the newspapers
- Devouring news magazines
- The 24 hour TV newscycle
- General news websites
What you measure gets attention. What gets attention gets worked on. And what gets worked on is improved.
This is such a basic train of thought, yet how often do we actually lead this way?
Let’s say that the key to your particular business success is developing personal, nurturing relationships with your customers. Yet when you have meetings and talk about progress, you’re showing revenue, expenses, on-time delivery and defects. Where did customer relationships even get mentioned?
Read the rest of this entry »Cleaning up after a meeting, I asked, “where’s your recycling?”
I wasn’t that surprised to find out they had no recycling bin in that office, so I simply took the can home with me. No big deal.
I wasn’t trying to be “that annoying guy with an agenda”, but trying to move the needle, even fractionally.
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The work is never done. Ever.
It’s a fact of our modern life, really. And I’m sure you feel this in your business; there’s an infinite supply of stuff to be done and things to worry about.
The question is, though: What really matters?
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WE SEEM TO HAVE a whole lot of things going on right now. Clients. Projects. Presentations. Prospects.
And, for whatever reason, I’m hearing similar things from a lot of other people as well.
This happens. But how do we keep from getting stressed out when things are super busy?
The Values-Based Business 