You are what you repeatedly do.

Your behaviours, your habits, your routines.

These are impacting your current results.

Results both intended and unintended.

So what behaviours, habits, routines are working for you?

Can those habits be applied to areas that are not working so well?

Would you like to change your results?

Change what you repeatedly do.

How do you see the world?

Are you the optimist?

Are you the pessimist?

There are those that see the glass half full.

And those that see it half empty.

Do you see the silver lining?

Or the dark clouds?

The bright side?

Or the gloom?

Smile….frown.

Positive….negative.

Best…worst.

What is your perspective?

How you see the world affects how you see the world.

What are your sources of inspiration?

How do you maintain motivation?

Where do you get your ideas?

From the books you read?

The podcasts you listen to?

People you mix with?

Magazines purchased?

E-magazine subscriptions?

Newsletters?

E-newsletters?

The web?

Social media?

Audio CDs?

Song lyrics?

Documentaries?

Speeches?

Quotes?

Movies?

Art?

Seminars?

Nature?

If you are struggling for inspiration, or motivation or ideas…

…change your sources.

Sometimes it’s complicated and doesn’t need to be.

Sometimes we make it complicated.

Sometimes it just needs to be simple.

Keep it simple.

Positive feedback is easy.

It’s agreeable.

Much more palatable than negative feedback.

Accepting negative feedback is less easy.

Calling it constructive feedback may not help either.

Maybe it comes in the form of criticism.

Maybe it wasn’t the right time.

The right time for you to hear it.

Maybe it’s the way it is delivered.

Regardless of how it is conveyed, what is the message?

Peel away the delivery to find the lesson.

Look for the message.

Now you can do something with it.

You have interactions every day.

Face to face interactions.

Phone interactions.

Interactions that can brighten your day.

Email interactions.

Online Interactions.

Interactions that can frustrate.

Interactions on the road.

Interactions in the street.

Interactions that can lift you.

Interactions when shopping.

Interactions with a group.

Interactions that can deplete you.

Bus stop interactions.

Family interactions.

People will interact with you every day.

You get to choose how you interact with them.

Will people leave your interaction depleted or brightened?

The goal posts will be moved.

The plan will be set and then change.

The boss will reverse a decision.

Your submission will be rejected.

The price will be fixed, but not just yet.

The date will be pushed out.

The strategy will be modified.

The client will want a different colour.

The scope will creep.

These things will happen.

You will think you’re done…and then you’re not.

There will be things you are not good at.

There will be others better at things than you will ever be.

Let them help you.

They’ve got their strengths, you’ve got yours.

Offset your weakness with their strength.

It will enable you to play longer at the things you do best.

Improving an area of your life can flow onto other areas.

The morning walk impacts positively on diet.

The diet is the domino for more energy.

More energy, increased productivity.

Increased productivity, less overtime.

Less time at work, more time at home.

More time at home, better relationships.

Better relationships, less stress.

For a domino effect, you need to push over your first domino.

What would you like to improve?

Are you measuring it?

Measure what you can control.

Measurement can mean motivation.

Even if it goes the wrong way.

Tracking progress provides feedback on the process.

Reinforces the approach.

Or triggers a different tack.

If you are not measuring, how will you know?

So, what would you like to improve?

Pick the measure.

Start measuring!