How often are you getting out of the weeds to look at your business? Weekly? Monthly? Quarterly? Yearly?
The reality is that for most business owners, the answer is never.
There are two types of ways the brain can think; operationally and strategically. The brain doesn’t do both together well.
When your brain is in operations mode, it is tending the plants and in the weeds, it’s looking to nourish the plants and to pull those weeds out to make a beautiful garden.
When your brain is in strategic mode it might notice that the garden is in a toxic waste dump and nothing is ever going to grow well there.
It’s important to get out of the garden on a semi-regular basis.
In arguments, we often want to be right. But being right is not the same as being wise.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.