In summer I walked up to the Rob Roy Glacier near Wanaka.
When I last did this, about 10 years ago, there was hardly another person. This time is was like a highway.
And out on the lake now in Wanaka it’s heaving with boats. Even on a calm day it’s hard to find smooth water to water ski due to all the boat wakes.
The great ice hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, famously said, “Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.”
And this is true in life, and in business too.
From a development perspective, Wanaka is the puck. To do well in real estate it’s probably better to look to what’s next. Where are the walks not crowded? Where are the lakes not heaving with boats?
I think one of the most powerful traits in business is the power of anticipation.
There are countless examples of businesses that were caught ‘looking at the puck’: Blockbuster, Kodak, Toys R Us.
Where is the puck going in your industry?
And more importantly, how can you skate in that direction?
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.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.