Things I Learned
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This document discusses principles for living purposefully and making the most out of each day. Some of the key ideas presented include living with vision and feeling passionate about your goals, giving your full effort to what matters most to you, and helping others shine as well through teaching and sharing your knowledge. It emphasizes continuously growing as a person and pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone. The overall message is about focusing your energy on positive goals and values while also creating opportunities for others.
Things I Learned
- 1. Lynear Thinking By Lynn M. ArmstrongWhat I learned in the boardroom and the living room.
- 2. Basic Tenets Live on purpose. Feel vision. Make it count.
- 3. Every Day Counts.Give 150% of yourself to that which matters most.Care about others. Look for success and results. Accomplish what is important to do today.
- 4. Be the CEO of your own life. CreativeEnergetic Optimistic
- 5. Don’t hold me back. Never say no to an idea.Ask how it can grow.
- 7. Vision is not necessarily for the sighted, or the promoted. Vision keeps you going when everything else tells you to stop. “Two years planning a documentary movie, and this blind guy barely makes it to camp 1?”P.S. The “blind guy” climbed the mountain.
- 8. Have AspirationsYou can’t see “vision.” You feel vision.
- 9. Have a MissionRemember what it is that you must do every day, and never forget to do. Be clear.Be connected. Be focused.
- 10. Values are not optional. Honesty. Respect. Integrity. Family. Quality. Health. Love. Compassion.
- 11. Teach someone to shine. You don’t have to be the one, all the time. Sometimes it’s OK to let someone else have the spot light. Everyone needs to shine. Teach someone something today.
- 12. 2nd chances only come once. Remember what you learned and write it down
- 13. Be helpful.Great people focus on everyone else.
- 14. take the high road. Nelson Mandela invited his incarcerators to dinner. One woman didn’t come, so he went to her.
- 15. create infectious enthusiasm. Make complex things simple so everyone can be a part of it.
- 16. Celebrate difference. Tolerance is an insult. Creative. Yellow.Passionate. Red. Focused on getting things done. BlueMaintain order. Green
- 17. How you get things done matters more. Getting things done is important.
- 18. Be worthy of respect.Is earned through actions. Is built on understanding.Asks why. Listens to others.Responds. Looks you in the eye. Does not give answers. Creates a path.
- 19. Imagery is the language of clarity.Create a picture that is meaningful to each person.Clarity is personal. It causes one to think differently. See another perspective.
- 20. You are obligated to keep growing. If what you are doing is easy, then you need to move on. Growing is stretching.
- 21. The things I have learned . . .
- 22. 1. If it’s too easy, move on.The more each person is able to grow, the more we are able to accomplish.
- 23. 2. Sometimes it’s hard to let go. Send me a signal if I hang on too long.
- 24. 3. Create a path that others can follow. Then guide them. The road can be a wide one. This is scarey for some people. And sometimes hard to follow.
- 25. 4. Speed is not the point. There is no point in being so far out in front that you are invisible.
- 26. 5. One person can only do so much. As much as one person can do.
- 27. 6. Make a plan and Commit. Now. Say it out loud. Write it down. Share it. Live it . Visit it. Don’t make it easy.
- 28. 7. Breathe. Inspirare. To inhale. Breathe in. Oxygen deprivation does strange things to the human body. Heart rates go haywire, brain function decreases, blood thickens. Intestines shut down.