Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Make Your Mark

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Start from where you are, with what you have.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Lead with a learner’s mindset. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Know your space in the bigger picture because there is always a bigger picture.</li></ol>

Formula For Success

There is no such thing as being still. Either you’re doing your best or worst.

Be The Best

I was decluttering my files and I found my notes on a Leadership Symposium I attended last Feb 2018

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Career

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Mindfulness

Execute with Excellence

The things we measure are the things we improve. It is only through numbers and clear tracking that we have any idea if we are getting better or worse.<ul><li>When I measured how many pushups I did, I got stronger.</li><li>When I tracked my reading habit of 20 pages per day, I read more books.</li><li>When I recorded my values, I began living with more integrity.</li></ul>Our lives are shaped by how we choose to spend our time and energy each day. Measuring can help us spend that time in better ways, more consistently.

What We Measure, We Improve

The trick is to realize that counting, measuring, and tracking is not about the result. It's about the system, not the goal.Measure from a place of curiosity. Measure to discover, to find out, to understand.Measure from a place of self-awareness. Measure to get to know yourself better. Measure to see if you are showing up. Measure to see if you're actually spending time on the things that are important to you. (Make sure to measure backward, not forward.)

It's Not About the Result, It's About Awareness

There are some things in life that don't need to be measured. Some people just love working out for the sake of working out. Measuring every repetition might reduce the satisfaction and make it seem more like a job. There is nothing wrong with that. (As always, take the main idea and use it in a way that is best for you.)Measurement won't solve everything. It is not an ultimate answer to life. However, it is a way to track something critical

You Can't Measure Everything

But even for things that can't be quantified, measuring can be helpful. And it doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming.You can't measure love, but you can track different ways that you are showing up with love in your life You can't measure morality, but you can track if you're thinking about it:<ul><li>Write down three values that are dear to you each morning.</li><li>Keep a decision journal to track which decisions you make and whether or not they align with your ethics.</li></ul>The things we measure are the things we improve.

The Idea in Practice

Read this article to learn why performance measurement is so important to your success.

What Are You Measuring In Your Life?

There is a Japanese proverb, "Only staying active will want make you want to live a hundred years."There is an island in Japan called Okinawa where there are 24.55 people over the age of 100 years in every 100,000 people which is far more than the global average.

IKIGAI - Japanese secrete to a long and happy life

The reason is balanced diet, a simple life, consumption of green tea and the climate.Okinawans live by the principle of ichariba chode, means treat everyone like a brother even if you have never met them before.

According to Japanese, everyone has ikigai and this ikigai is the reason we get up in the morning.

Japanese culture considers having a purpose in life so important that there is no such thing such as retirement. Infact there is no such word in Japanese that means retire.

Don't retire

Okinawans stop eating when they feel their stomach is 80 percent full. This way they stop overeating and there is no excessive pressure on our digestive system

80 percent secret

He, who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how

It inspired me to rethink about my life and goals along with my health

Los Angeles Times bestseller • More than 1.5 million copies sold “If hygge is the art of doing nothing, ikigai is the art of doing something—and doing it with supreme focus and joy.” —New York Post Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy)—the happiness of always being busy—as revealed by the daily habits of the world’s longest-living people. *And from the same authors, don’t miss The Book of Ichigo Ichie—about making the most of every moment in your life.* * * * What’s your ikigai? “Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—the place where passion, mission, vocation, and profession intersect—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy. In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day? A PENGUIN LIFE TITLE

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1.5 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider   “One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―Forbes Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days. “Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb   According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy. In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day?

Hector Garcia was born in Spain in 1981 and has been living in Tokyo since 2004. During his spare time he writes aGeekinJapan.com, one of the most widely-read blogs in the world in Spanish and in English, as well as books about his experiences in Japan. He is the author of the bestsellers: Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life and A Geek in Japan. You can find more of Hector's musings at ageekinjapan.com

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Francesc Miralles Contijoch is a Catalan writer, essayist, translator, and musician.

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Ikigai

The person you are today is the sum total of all your choices & decision in life up to this date

Includes sections on self-discipline and personal success; business, sales and finances; and the good life.

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You don’t need to have been born under a lucky star, or with incredible wealth, or with terrific contacts and connections, or even special skills...but what you do need to succeed in any of your life goals is self-discipline. Unfortunately, most people give in to the two worst enemies of success: they take the path of least resistance (in other words, they’re lazy) and/or they want immediate gratification: they don’t consider the long-term consequences of the actions they take today. No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of your life: 1. Your personal goals. 2. Your business and money goals. 3. Your overall happiness. Each of the 21 chapters in this book shows you how to be more disciplined in one aspect of your life, with end-of-chapter exercises to help you apply the “no excuses” approach to your own life. With these guidelines, you can learn how to be more successful in everything you do—instead of wistfully envying others who you think are just “luckier” than you. A little self-discipline goes a long way...so stop making excuses and read this book!

Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.Brian has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of economics, history, business, philosophy and psychology. He is the top selling author of over 45 books that have been translated into dozens of languages.

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No Excuses!

“If you'd like to do something bold with your life, you will have to choose to do something bold on a specific day.There is no perfect day. There is no right time. For the trajectory to change, there has to be one day when you simply make the choice.”

“If someone has the courage to admit they were wrong, you should have the grace to give them credit for admitting it. Rubbing it in encourages them to never admit being wrong again.”

“The more precisely you define the problem, the more easily you can find a solution.“I feel bad” can have a million causes.“I didn't sleep much last night and I haven't exercised in a week” has a very straightforward answer.”

“Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.”

“Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.”

There is usually a block of time each day when you are at your best—​peak energy, peak enthusiasm. Let's say it's 2 hours per day. How do you spend those 2 hours? Who or what gets your best time?

1 QUESTION FOR YOU

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Communication

3-2-1: Thinking clearly, being bold, and making each day a masterpiece

Think about different kinds of leaders for a minute. Ever notice that leadership styles vary dramatically? Some leaders seem to genuinely come across as caring about the broader people whom they represent—and they seem trustworthy, altruistic, and kind. On the other hand, some leaders seem kind of scary—selfish, intimidating, and even ruthless.History tells us that there are definitely different pathways toward success and toward achieving leadership positions. And this basic story speaks to the fact that there are different pathways toward success in life more generally.

Different Paths, Same Outcome

As is found in so many life forms, humans seem to demonstrate something called strategic pluralism when it comes to patterns of behavior. In short, strategic pluralism speaks to the fact that there is often a plurality of strategies that can lead to success in all kinds of contexts.When it comes to natural selection, the engine that drives the nature of the living world, it is often the case that multiple phenotypes (observable features of an organism) emerge to address various selective pressures (i.e., things that tend to impede survival and/or reproduction).

Strategic Pluralism

Some male wood frogs find success in the mating market by having large bodies and effectively attracting female wood frogs with their deep calls, while other (often smaller) male wood frogs find themselves successfully mating via an alternative route: by hiding in the bushes near a large male wood frog and mating with females who are attracted by the calls of the larger male. The latter is a sneaky strategy, for sure—but it often works.

A Quick Example From The Natural World

The same goes with humans when it comes to broad social strategies in terms of how we treat others. People vary from one another in terms of how truly other-oriented versus how dispositionally selfish they are.In the human experience, there are multiple pathways to success. Some successful humans have reached the top by gaining the respect and admiration of others by being truly other-oriented, genuine, and kind. On the other hand, many successful humans have reached the top by lying, cheating, intimidating, and stealing.

The Other-Oriented And The Self-Oriented Succeed Just As Well

In recent years, work in the field of personality psychology has found that there are reliable and measurable individual differences in terms of the degree to which people tend to employ a dark strategy when it comes to dealing with others versus a light strategy in dealing with others.

There Simply Is A “Dark” Strategy And A “Light” Strategy

As is the case with wood frogs, these two different behavioral strategies in humans seem to each have the capacity to lead to success. Under some conditions, an all-out selfish approach leads to success in life—largely via tactics such as intimidation and bullying. In other conditions, a genuinely other-oriented approach has the capacity to boost one's social reputation and open the door for all kinds of success in life.In other words, across evolutionary time, nature has selected both selfish and other-oriented approaches to dealing with others in life.

To The Natural World, There Is Just “Success” Strategy

From this perspective, we can think of two broad paths to success in life. A selfish approach to life, for better or worse, can have its merits when it comes to success. History is full of all kinds of figures who found success by moving simply toward their own selfish goals. On the other hand, humans evolved in small, tight-knit communities in which social reputation mattered quite a bit. In this context, demonstrating genuinely other-oriented, caring behaviors has the capacity to facilitate one's own success in an ultimate sense.

The Inevitable Two Broad Paths To Success

Human behavior is complex—people utilize a broad suite of behavioral strategies in their efforts to succeed in life. Based on the principle of strategic pluralism, it turns out that multiple—and often wildly different—strategies have the capacity to lead to successful outcomes.

Success Is Personal. Strategic Pluralism Is Natural. 

﻿Knowing all this, when it comes to the strategy that works best for you in life, realize that there are choices to be made. Sure, a self-serving approach to life might lead to all kinds of success, but it often does so at a cost to the welfare of others. On the other hand, a genuinely other-oriented approach to life has the capacity to also facilitate one's own success while, at the same time, cultivating the success of others and of one's broader community.

Choices Are Personal. Consequences Are Natural. 

Via eons of evolutionary pressures, both strategies have made it into the human behavioral repertoire. In large part, the strategy that you utilize as you navigate the obstacles of life is up to you.

Nature Allows For Equifinality. And Selection. And Extinction. 

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called success. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a failure.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

We humans have evolved a broad suite of social strategies that solve all kinds of adaptive problems. Some of us succeed by sheer and ruthless selfishness, while others of us succeed by gaining reputations as truly compassionate and caring for others. In either case, success is not final and in neither case is success final.

Some succeed through all-out selfishness while others succeed by truly caring.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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There Are Two Broad Paths to Success in Life

Take that First StepAn objective or macro result which often looks hard to achieve, is nothing but a culmination of micro actions which often are easy to take and it’s just a matter of taking that first step. That’s what separates Doers from Dreamers

4 Ways To Develop A Bias For Action

Age old notion of first learn then earn has been flipped today, as now people prefer to learn while they earn.Performing action is actually the quickest way of learning. Mistakes that you make during the process prove to be a better teacher than textbooks.

Learn While You Earn  

Unless we have something to loose we are not bothered about the consequences. We don’t take any action unless we have something on the line. This phenomenon is referred to as having skin in the game, unless you face the fear of loosing the game or reputation you won’t be committed to take an action.

Skin in the Game  

Tech Giant Amazon, lists Bias for Action as one of its 14 leadership principles. Their mantra is to put words into action as quick as possible while taking calculated risks. The way Amazon describes it as follows “Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking.”

Calculated Risk Taking  

In life we come across many problems where our pace of decision making determines whether or not we would succeed. The reason we are unable to take the first step is because we feel hesitant.

February 24, 2022 It is willingness to take that first step. A macro result is nothing but a culmination of micro actions which often are easy to take 

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Time Management

How To Develop Bias For Action - thingstodoclub.com

“When we practice something, we are involved in the deliberate repetition of a process with the intention of reaching a specific goal. The words deliberate and intention are key here because they define the difference between actively practicing something and passively learning it.”Here are some additional ways to think about the difference.<ul><li>Let's say your goal is to get stronger and more fit. You can research the best instructions on bench press technique, but the only way to build strength is to practice lifting weights.</li></ul>

The Difference Between Learning and Practicing

<ul><li>Let's say your goal is to grow your startup. You can learn about the best way to make a sales pitch, but the only way to actually land customers is to practice making sales calls.</li><li>Let's say your goal is to write a book. You can talk to a best-selling author about writing, but the only way to become a better writer is to practice publishing consistently.</li></ul>Let's consider three more reasons to prioritize active practice over passive learning.

In many cases, learning is actually a way to avoid taking action on the goals and interests that we say are important to us. rationalizations allow us to feel like we are moving forward when we are merely spinning our wheels. We make the mistake of being in motion rather than taking action. Learning is valuable until it becomes a form of procrastination.

1. Passive Learning Can Be a Crutch That Supports Inaction

practice is the only way to make a meaningful contribution with your knowledge. You can watch an online course about how to build a business or read an article about a terrible disaster in a developing nation, but that knowledge is unproductive unless you actually launch your business or donate to those in need. Learning by itself can be valuable for you, but if you want to be valuable to others, then you have to express your knowledge in some way.

2. Practice Is Learning, But Learning Is Not Practice

“Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.”The state of your life right now is a result of the habits and beliefs that you have been practicing each day. When you realize this and begin to direct your focus toward practicing better habits day-in and day-out, continual progress will be the logical outcome. It is not the things we learn nor the dreams we envision that determines our results, but rather that habits that we practice each day. Fall in love with boredom and focus your energy on the process, not the product.

3. Practice Focuses Your Energy on the Process

Passive learning by itself does not lead to progress. Read the article to learn more about passive learning vs. active practicing.

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Productivity

Stop Thinking and Start Doing: The Power of Practicing More

The more you fear something the more will happen.

1. Murphy's Law

If you write the problem down clearly, then the matter is half solved.

2. Kidlin's Law

The biggest problem at work is that no one tells you what to do.

3. Gilbert's Law

If you put information and intelligent first at all times, then money keeps coming in.

4. Wilson's Law

When you don't have to make a decision then don't make a decision.

5. Falkland's Law

These ideas would change your thinking instantly. Takes only one minute to go through.  

Top 5 Ideas To Change Your Perception

L ike many old people desperate to stay relevant, I made a Millennial friend. Only I hit the Millennial jackpot, which is the kind of jackpot that, instead of money, spits out excuses for why it doesn’t make enough money. So when Igor Hiller — who was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BfW-AjUh-w3/">an Instagram comedy star </a>, acted in the show Dear White People , <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-are-you-thinking-about-with-igor/id1114440532">started a podcast </a>, and is now a life coach — told me early this year that we needed to join Clubhouse right away so we could monetize our influence there, I did it.

Exclusive Club(house

We were the lucky early adopters, joining right after the live, audio-only social media app was seeded to the music and tech industries. Other people were paying up to $77 for the free invites we got. It was so elite that, in a demographically genius move the Soho House would envy, Clubhouse was only available on the iPhone.

Sorry, Androids

We’d have access to hundreds of simultaneous rooms of live chat, each a cross between a TED talk and a call-in radio show. Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, Tiffany Haddish, Mark Cuban, Mark Zuckerberg, Drake, and Jack Dorsey were hosting rooms, talking to randos. We, Igor said, could be the Clubhouse randos who become the Clubhouse somebodies. Millennials don’t merely fantasize about becoming famous. They fantasize about becoming famous on a medium that then becomes famous.

Reaching for the Stars

By April, Twitter entered talks to buy Clubhouse for $4 billion, which is more than the value of Air France, Six Flags, Sunoco, Shake Shack, or Fannie Mae. It turned Twitter down, instead raising a round of funding that also valued it at $4 billion. Clubhouse is now a sad, empty MySpace shell of social media. It’s sixtieth in the App Store’s “social networking” category, right behind Chispa, Skout, and Hit on Me!, which is an app that describes itself as a “video platform for people who look for new friends especially hot singles and get more followers” and I’m guessing is “for prostitutes.”

Sad Empty Shell

To find out how this happened, Igor and I hosted a Clubhouse room titled “What Happened to Clubhouse?” Did the app’s functionality not keep up? Did it get infested with political arguments? Did Clubhouse say something racist and get canceled? Only three people showed up to our “What Happened to Clubhouse?” room. One was my lovely wife Cassandra, and one left as soon as we asked him a question. But Mark Simmons stayed with us the whole hour, even though he was very busy driving to a one-year-old’s birthday party.

Public Opinion

He’d only been on Clubhouse a few times and was disappointed with the level of conversation. We added to that disappointment. Within minutes, instead of talking about Clubhouse, Igor was explaining crypto and I was talking about my new Tesla. There was some magnet in Clubhouse drawing us toward douchedom. After our room ended, I scrolled through the other rooms again. None of them interested me, and none were hosted by anyone I’d heard of.

The Draw Of Douchedom

Until then, I’d assumed Clubhouse withered because it was the Tiger King of apps, a pandemic lockdown fad for the bored and isolated. But the bored and isolated didn’t bail on TikTok. Clubhouse died because populism has its limits. If you’re going to fight the time-shifting culture and try to congregate a live audience, you need to limit your community. The currency isn’t content. It’s status. Only they were worse than financial hucksters. They were status hucksters.

Social Climbing

What happened to Clubhouse is what’s happening to all our institutions. When you remove the barriers for entry politics, business, and media, you get less a culture than a nightclub scene, where the Drakes and Mark Cubans sprint from hot new location to hot new location, trying to outrun the cryptopunk brokers. they bump into each other and collaborate on projects. When the trusted and untrustworthy mix, you reach a point where you avoid all institutions because you can’t trust anyone. Especially not a guy who hosts a Clubhouse room called ‘What Happened to Clubhouse?’ and talks about his car.

Bye, Felicia 👋

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