Tag: Confidence

It comes with the territory

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Doing a little extra is a habit. Most won’t notice it, but do it anyway.

 

The Vancouver client is taking a long time to confirm me as their speaker. This means one of two things:

  1. They aren’t sure how to nicely tell me no.
  2. They are simply crazy busy and the speech is over a month away.

One day, you feel on top of the world. The next, not so much.

It comes with the territory.

 

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Clutter steals our confidence

Fake owl statue
There is wisdom in not procrastinating. There is wisdom in leaving certain things undone. There is no map for this journey.

 

Clutter steals our confidence.

Clutter has one insidious, bottomline outcome.

We become a leader who develops an urgency addiction.

When “everything is important”, nothing is.

Sure, we become renowned “firefighters”, but we will never achieve the confidence that comes from envisioning and creating a future that is better than now, much better.

Our job as a leader is not to maintain things.

Our job as a leader is to make things better, remarkably better than now.

Sadly, without confidence, it will have to wait until tomorrow.

 

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Cashing in

post it note
Self-evident and irrefutable are my wheelhouse.

 

How old are you?

How much experience?

Are you cashing in?

Theoretically, each of us ought to be able to write a big check. After all, we have spent a lifetime honing our skills.

Here’s what the post-it says:

My model is based on what should be self-evident. If it’s not, i’m not going to try to convince you.

US Marine battle strategy.

 

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What makes you qualified?

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Bought a week ago, opened the box yesterday. Still haven’t turned it on.

 

What makes you qualified?

For starters, i do all the stuff i preach about.

Self-confidence and arrogance often look like twins.

And so it goes.

Another in a long list of challenges that are ripe with excuses for backing down.

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Where is the line?

Starbucks chalk board message

 

Where is the line between confidence and arrogance?

One person’s boast is another person’s dream.

Or maybe it becomes clearer here:

One Company’s boast is another company’s dream.

Apple has been called the most admired company in the world eight consecutive years. How many great Companies would love to say that?

All of them? Probably.

Boasting? Confidence?

Marketing?

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