February 4, 2024
When it doesn’t work the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth time. Get up and try again. It’s the only way you’ll make it work, but if you don’t get up the first four times, you’ll never get to the fifth to try it again.
February 3, 2024
If they come out 5 minutes before the meeting, they are pointless – no one is reading it – they are on their way to the meeting. If they come out two days before the meeting, they are read through and forgotten. And so much can happen in two days that they are probably going to change. Every story has a start, middle, and end – that’s what makes a great story. Lead with that when you start, when everyone is there… Problem, Discussion, Solution Updates, Questions, Next Keep it simple, every meeting has 3 points – if they don’t
February 2, 2024
Yourself. Your actions. Your purpose. You can make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a great one. Everything is in your hands in how you approach and how you deal with the situation at hand. That is you can control, that is where you can help people, that is where you can lead.
February 1, 2024
I was watching a lot of clips from Apollo 13 for a bit and one thing that kept striking me – their focus. I look at my desktop and sometimes see all the tabs of random thoughts occurring as I look at issues and problems and I think – “there is no way I could be in space, I’d have all these tabs and binders open just trying to figure out what to do.” Probably why they still have binders in space.
