Category: No really

Out The Back

Yesterday’s post was freakishly coincidental, a random person overheard me telling a fellow Professional Speaker I was going to quickly look for the bathroom, before the big speech.

Just a casual comment to my friend. And from out of nowhere, a voice says, “Out the back, make a left”.

Wow! Turns out, it was the CEO. He was tuned in to what his customer needed (a bathroom).

The really cool thing? A keynote speaker (me) recognized the CEO in front of hundreds of his employees. Funny how life pays you back when you do the right thing, without expectation.

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Not Yet, Not Ever

Recently, a Florida CEO made a (profound) statement, “We have yet to find the best way to do anything”.

Continuous improvement, six sigma, whatever you call it – the road to excellence has no finish line.

A leader’s job isn’t to maintain, it’s to make things better. So that when she leaves, people will say, wow, she sure pushed the boundaries and helped our organization become a household name, just like she envisioned.

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In Doing The Math

There’s no need for these. No bull here…

How many times in your life have you been ready to quit, when in doing the math, you realized you were so close to being done that you were ashamed to admit it? Overjoyed by your discovery. But really quite embarrassed.

Unlike many speakers, I literally speak 5 days a week, week in, week out. Those recent comments about “demonstrating world class platform skills” got me thinking why?

Now I know….tomorrow….

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Hindsight Is 20/20

Sometimes life’s warning signs are a trap…

Looking back on my life, it occurred to me, as it does to you too, that what’s done is done. We can not change the past. And looking back, hindsight really is 20/20.

We can see things so much clearer, looking back.

But we must also look forward and when we do, we should not fall into the same trap.

But it would seem we never learn…why is that?

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This Ain’t For Everyone

The Herd is abundant, renegades, few…

Do you have moments (for me it was yesterday) of consciousness where you see yourself from the outside looking in? And sort of ask a few obvious questions, like:

  • Who does this person think they are?
  • Why won’t this person change?
  • Why are they so hung up on ____ (fill in the blank)?

Game changers never fit in. And as the name implies, they change things. Maybe that’s why they frustrate the herd and inspire the minority.

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