8. People Know Who You Are When You Walk Into A Room
Yeah I'm almost at that stage.
9. You Control Your Emotions
"Life Is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." - Dan Waeger
10. You Inspire Others
11. You Take Care Of The Way You Present Yourself
Ever see a CEO wearing flip-flops and basketball shorts? Nope!
12. People Want To Be You
13. You Dominate Your Environment
Or you have the perception to others that you dominate your environment. As all the football announcers say when they talk about Bill Belichick "Belichick and the Patriots are playing chess and the rest of the league is playing checkers."
14. You Are Authentic
Say what you want about Bill Belichick, but he is authentic. What you see is what you get with him. There's no secret. He's all about football from July through, hopefully, the first weekend of February.
15. You Don't Turn The Other Cheek
BONUS
16. The Gap Between You and Those Around You Is Getting Bigger By The Day
How many times have you either said or heard someone else say "there isn't enough time" or "I don't have the time?" We all, at some point, uttered one or both of these phrases, but is it really true? Is there really not enough time or are we just really, really bad at dealing with time as a commodity?
As an American society, we are really good at dealing with money as commodity. How much a person makes is a status thing and how much something costs is important to people and businesses, but we haven't elevated TIME to that same standard. It really should be the number one commodity.
Money is important but just not as important as time and the reason being is simple. If you lose $20, you can go out and get that $20 back, but once you lose 20 minutes, hours, or some other finite number, you can never, ever get that time back. It's all about managing the limited time you do have and get the most out of it.
Let's start at looking at one week.
There are 168 hours one week - seven days in a week, 24 hours in a day.
You like to get seven hours of sleep a night, that's 49 hours you spend sleeping a week. Now, you have 119 hours remaining.
Like the majority of people in America, you spend eight hours working, 40 hours a week at work brings you down to 79 hours.
If you're anything like me, you like to eat. Let's give you two hours per meal a day for food preparation and consumption (eating). Three meals a day, that's six hours per day and 42 hours in a week of preparing and eating. We're now down to 37 hours.
Eat, sleep and work are our needs in society. We need those three things to function normally (or as close to normal as possible). But we have 37 hours remaining in our time budget.
For example, myself I spend six hours a week scoring a women's basketball league in Brighton. I'm now down to 31 hours. But I'm not far from done. I also spend nine hours a week promoting Watertown's summer basketball league. I'm now left with 22 hours.
Within those 22 hours I have the time to do the things that I love to do: play golf, write this blog, search and create content for my videos of the day, watch the Red Sox, and go for walks. And some of these things may be happening concurrently.
See, there definitely is a lot of time, the problem is we are not very good, as a society, at managing that time. We are not treating time as high as we treat money. But then again there are some people that don't manage their money, which is what drives the credit card industry.
If you liked this blog, go watch the late Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Randy Pausch's lecture on "Time Management" at the University of Virginia in 2007. I've embedded it down below.
Samsung is the manufacturer of the camera in the iPhones. It's one the top reasons why the camera on an Android is better than on iPhones. Samsung's not dumb, it's not going to put it's top product in a competitor's phone.
4. Alphabet Inc.
$754 Billion
3. Microsoft
$772 Billion
2. Amazon
$792 Billion -- And climbing! Won't be long before it becomes the top tech company.
Yup, collaboration is key! Collaboration with Noontime Sports to promote the Watertown Summer Basketball League.
12. Recruiting
13. Staying Ahead Of The Curve
14. Face-to-Face Communication
15. Backing Each Other Up
16. Hustle And Grind
17. Knowing The World You Live In
18. Willing To Fight For Your Turf
Bullies only bully the weak individuals. The minute you stand up to a bully tell them you're not afraid of them, they back off because they realize nothing they say or do is going to hurt you.
19. They Go For Huge Payoffs
20. Respect and Value Other Peoples Assets
21. Creativity
22. Rituals
23. Have A Succession Plan
24. Lead By Example
25. Out Of Control Greed
Now after all this talk about the mob, go watch one of four movies: The Godfather, The Godfather Part 11, Goodfellas or The Departed.
Money likes to go in the direction of the attention. Once you have the attention, now you have to market and promote it. Then there's one final step - "close the deal."
Simon Sinek's book "Why Leaders Eat Last?" is a must read for every one.
It is all about what it means to be a leader. Being a leader means putting yourself at risk for the people under you. You take the bullets so other people don't have to.
Knowing how to control what you're feeling and act accordingly. Remember the old phrase, "life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
3. Your Appearance Makes A Difference
Why would you wear sandals to an interview in the first place?
4. A Person Is Not Defined By What They Own
"You are defined by the company you keep and how well you keep it."
5. If You're Not Living, You're Just Dying
6. Thinking and Doing Are Not The Same Thing
7. Money, Fame and Success Can Make You Happy
8. Life Is A Competition
9. Everyone Is Wearing Different Masks Depending On The Occasion
10. The Poor Stay Poor Because They Never Try To Learn
11. Happiness Comes From What You Do For Others
12. Being Busy Doesn't Mean You're Doing Anything Worthwhile
13. Everyone You Know Will Eventually Die, Including Yourself
14. Your Urgent Problems Won't Matter Five Years From Now
15. You Are A Tiny Organism, On A Rock Floating Through Space
Bonus
16. Everything About Your Life Is Now In Your Own Hands
What's the worst that can happen? They say no? And if they do say 'no,' then you know right then and there where they stand. It doesn't cost anything to ask.
4. Passion
5. Abundance vs. Scarcity
It's 'ok' to want to get paid for your work if you are offering value.
6. Clarity
Decide where you want to go and go. You don't just hop in a car and start driving, you'll never get anywhere. You pick a destination first. Well that's the same for everything you do. Pick a direction and GO!
7. It's Not About Deservingness
"You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
