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the key? constantly build on the basics.

by bill reeb

always keeping the basics top-of-mind can help you work better. this technique is about making sure you are always building on a strong foundation – strong enough for where you are now, but also strong enough to support where you plan to be.

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if your foundation isn’t built for the load you will eventually put to bear on it, then though you might make great progress doing the work in the short term, your gains will all crumble underneath you in the long term.
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how “take what’s given” works in business.

by bill reeb

in the practice of martial arts, the concept of “take what’s given” is drilled in to teach us to respond to what our opponent is offering rather than either following some mental plan we have conjured up or over-relying on our strengths.

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when you have an unfamiliar opponent, both a mental plan and leveraging strengths require information you don’t have to dependably work. in other words, those two options presume superiority – that i know my strengths are greater, or that my plan has all the necessary contingencies to appropriately react to the actions and reactions of my opponent. how could you have this level of knowledge or insight about an unknown opponent?
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self-reflection is useful. self-criticism, less so.

by bill reeb

a couple of years ago, when i was consulting onsite with the executive team, one of the managers pulled me aside and asked me for some personal advice. she said, “i am thinking about asking to go part time because the stress of this job is really getting to me. what do you think they will say?”

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i told her that i thought they would be willing to do whatever she wanted. but then i added, “what are the owners or your direct boss doing to create this stress?” here was the conversation that followed:
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what to stop doing may be more important than what to do.

by bill reeb

much of your focus is naturally on “what can i do today to move me one step closer to whatever i am trying to achieve?”

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while “doing the work” really seems to be about actions you should take, often it is just as much – if not more – about what actions to stop.

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it often comes when we tackle new work.

by bill reeb

the learning process is often frustrating. so why is it so difficult to learn new things?

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one answer is that we don’t have “hooks” for what we don’t know (neither the mental acuity nor the physical skills). an example of this is found anytime businesses train their employees.
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stop wishing your life away.

by bill reeb

we spend about 99.7 percent (statistic totally fabricated but the phrase “vast majority” would certainly apply) of our time en route to some objective. if you can find happiness, serenity or a feeling of success only when you arrive at your intended destinations, then you are destined to be unhappy or feeling unsuccessful almost all of the time.

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i remember my wife and i vacationing in puerto rico many years ago. we decided to go to the el yunque national forest reserve and walk up to the top of one of the el yunque mountains. given that we like to hike, this was not a difficult climb because it was only about five miles roundtrip on a paved path.
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don’t let inertia choose for you.

by bill reeb

inertia can be like drifting, which actually describes what many people do. what i mean is, many people just do more of what they did yesterday to keep afloat, or robotically attempt the next incremental step forward from where they are right now. it is as if they are treading water working hard throughout life and just letting the current take them wherever it is going.

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the breakdown in this approach is that it presumes you are exactly where you want to be right now and that the current is going in the direction you want to go. overachievers often find themselves in this predicament: working hard treading water going with the current without a clear direction in mind.
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what “getting stuck” and “being stuck” mean in practice.

by bill reeb

based on experiences in my own life and decades working as a coach and consultant to very successful business executives and owners, getting more out of your life often comes down to how quickly you recognize and respond to the early warning signs like losing momentum, suffering from diminishing returns on your efforts, or experiencing the disconnect between what you are thinking and what you want to do.

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overachievers get stuck regularly. for us, this is simply life in action.
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