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The Impact of Your Words

Good morning D13!

We have come A LONG WAY this year. I’m proud of all the growth that we have had in one short quarter! We’re a whole new team from January to now, with more focus, higher performance, and MOMENTUM.

That being said, of course there is still more growth to be had. At the rate we’re going, we will be on top of the results in all categories by years end! But it’s only going to happen WHEN we have the conversations that we need to have with our teams…

Impact.

It’s really the largest part of our jobs.

When you took over your store, you had an immediate IMPACT on the numbers

It was from getting YOU on that sales floor for the first time

It was from the conversations that you had with the employees

Teaching. Coaching. Pushing.

Don’t underestimate the IMPACT that those words of yours have. You can make or break a teammates day. You can change the course of their entire life with just your words.

They look up to you, and they look to you for guidance.

Today, show the impact that you can have by getting the team fired up, and out on the sales floor doing the things they need to do!

Keep it simple, make it fun, help them be themselves :-)

Thanks!

NG13

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Be Badass

Motivation is fickle
and
Inspiration is unreliable
and
Focus can come and go

Being a badass isn’t about being more motivated, more inspired, or more focused. That’s because a badass already knows that those things can’t be relied on.

What separates the badass from the rest of the world? ……”JUST GO”. That’s what.

It isn’t about if they feel like it, because they probably DON’T feel like it.
It isn’t about being moved to perform today because they don’t run on inspiration.
It isn’t about if they are focused on being organized, or winning, or engaging…

Nope! You want to know what makes them different?

The badasses see, they run on a different fuel. This fuel isn’t fickle and it isn’t intermittent.

This fuel makes THEM reliable.

That fuel they run on is…JUST GO

They JUST GO do the things they need to do. JUST GO do the things they are supposed to do. JUST GO do the the things that they are afraid to do.

That’s it. That’s the whole secret.

While the rest of the world look for inspiration on Pinterest and motivation on Instagram, the badass is out of bed early taking action already.

While the ones that SAY they “want it” watch Netflix on the couch, the badass is still out there grinding because there is work to be done!

The badasses JUST GO. Despite how they feel. Despite what others say. Whether or not they get the credit or praise.

Today, let’s all work on being BADASS. JUST GO. ATTACK.

-NG

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Rome Didn’t Fall in a Day (Every Second Counts)

“Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

We all know that saying…but what I offer you to consider is that Rome didn’t FALL in a day either.

There was a specific day where the city of Rome was sacked by the Visigoths (August 24th 410 ad), but it didn’t go from world power to conquered by barbarians in one day.

It began to fall hundreds of years before it was sacked…
One small decision here.
One little change there.
An outbreak of disease…etc

The culture began to change, and it OPENED UP THE OPPORTUNITY for it to be conquered.

Life is just like ancient Rome.

Impressive accomplishments DO NOT happen in a day. It takes time and effort to do something special.

Life also falls apart just like Rome did.

We don’t just wake up one day covered in rust, with no ambition and no drive.

It starts YEARS before as one decision, on one day, in one moment. And then it starts to repeat…

A small slip up here.
A little “lazy” showing up over there.
An erosion of focus over time…
And then we begin to cut corners. Life changes as our conviction changes.

Our Rome begins to fall so slowly that we don’t even notice it at first.
And then we start to feel like our mindset has changed…
And then we start to see that our behavior has changed…a tiny bit
And we say to ourselves something like, “Hey, I need to get back to doing THINGS like I used to!”

But it’s not a THINGS problem…
It’s a MINDSET problem.

Pay attention, because…

Every single second counts. EVERY. SINGLE. SECOND.

Those quick little seconds turn into minutes. And minutes turn into hours. And hours turn into YEARS. And then all the sudden you’re in a place that you never imagined being and you have no idea how you got there or what happened.

Every second of every day is precious. Because in these tiny little seconds we are either building or decaying.

We are either moving towards conquering goals, or we are losing ground…

So…make every second count, and guard that mindset that help you build your “Rome” with every bit of energy you have.

-NG

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How To Solve All Your Crummy Little Problems (and Truly Make a Difference)

To Be a Human Being = Having Problems

Something unique about humans is that we have problems. No matter what, we have a struggle to fight against.

When things are going great, we find something to call a problem, even manufacturing things to be problems, just so we can have something to battle.

So what does it mean to be a human being? It means, simply stated, to have problems.

Now I’m using the term “problems” broadly here.

It can be a flat tire, or you being out of sugar for your coffee. It can be a breakup that you are going through, or a life changing event that’s much bigger. It can be your desire to make more money, or a boss you can’t stand. These are all problems, and we all have them. When we start to feel like we don’t have any, then we create new ones.

This realization could lead us into thinking that life is kind of a negative thing. It’s just all about problems??

But an important distinction to make is that this realization isn’t a negative, or a positive about life.

It just…is life.

So then, if what it means to be a human being is to have a bunch of piled up problems, then maybe life isn’t really about problems, but rather about SOLVING PROBLEMS.

After all, a problem only exists because you want to solve it. If you didn’t want to solve it, it wouldn’t be a problem.

Let me illustrate this…

The Plainest Water (Small Problems)

I drink a lot of water. It’s good for me, and I like it.

I have a buddy who doesn’t drink much water at all.

One day he says to me that he knows that he needs to drink more water, but he doesn’t because he can’t stand plain water.

It’s just too plain for him?

Ok whatever…

So that means that he has a water-taste problem. I however do not. Same water, both human beings, but only one of us has a problem, because only one of us want to solve this dilemma of water being “too plain”.

Small problems like this are easily solved…

If you want to solve all your crummy little problems…take on bigger problems.

So for my friend that can’t stand plain water, he can drink gatorade or lemonade instead. That might solve his problem…but in solving it, he’s going to create new ones.

Too much sugar, and he’s going to be drinking a large amount of calories, which leads to likely weight gain.

Small problems beget more, small problems!

I’ve got a better way that he can solve his crummy little water problem. Take on a much larger water problem.

Do a little research on clean drinking water in Cambodia or Ethiopia. Its enough to make you realize that we take for granted what we have, and that plain water is something that we should relish.

If he were to set out to help provide clean drinking water for these people around the world where it’s scarce, all the sudden his goofy little problem of water being just to plain to stand would go away.

If you’d like to read more about providing water to developing nations, I urger you to go here. Charity Water devotes 100% of it’s donations to building fresh wells around the world. The 100% Model is truly amazing, and Scott Harrison is a visionary for developing it!

The size of a person’s life is measured by the size of the problems they solve.

Let’s use another analogy to explain this…

If you hand a granola bar to a homeless man, how big does your life feel? Slightly bigger, right? Like you “did you good deed for the day.”

If you volunteer to work at a soup kitchen, how big does your life feel? Much bigger! You’re giving your time back to the community.

If you were to solve world hunger for good, how big would your life feel? Indescribably big, right? You would be a world-wide hero!

To make that big of a difference would be life changing for billions of people…

It’s Actually Not About Making a Difference Though…

We’re all familiar with that term, “make a difference”.

As in, “I just want to make a difference in the world!”

Here’s the funny thing…

You already do make a difference in the world.

You commute to work, you made a difference in the traffic on the road. You cut a guy off, you made a BIGGER difference in the world.

You go to the grocery store, and you buy the last pound of sugar they have. You’ve now made a difference in the amount of sugar in the world.

Seems trivial? To you maybe. That guy you cut off on the commute to work, he’s under some serious stress, and for a problem like that to happen in the morning, you didn’t just wreck his commute, no, you wrecked his whole week!

So then…

The answer to the question, “do you make a difference?” is an automatic yes. We all make a difference. Every decision makes a difference.

There is a better question to ask. A better goal to set out after.

A bigger problem to solve…

Do You Make a Difference That Makes a Difference?

To actually make a difference, you have to make a difference, that makes a difference.

If you want to get up to something bigger than the rest of society, then you need to DECIDE what problems you are going to solve.

Obviously we don’t get to choose all of our problems…

Some were given to us at birth. Disease.

Some are our fault. Overweight.

Some are someone else’s fault. Car accident.

What we do get to choose, is how we react to our problems. We can take responsibility for these crummy little problems. Our problems. Own them, and then solve them, and quit whining about it.

You can obviously solve the “overweight” problem very simply. It’s called diet and exercise and all it takes effort and discipline.

You may have to solve the “disease” problem daily. Maybe multiple times per day. But you can almost be certain that there is another human being out there that had it worse, and not only overcame it, but then also took on bigger problems and overcame those too!

Some problems are simple, some are complex, but rest assured that they can all be solved. It’s called ownership. Stand up, take ownership for the fact that solving this problem is your responsibility, and GO. ATTACK.

Now you’re making a difference that makes a difference in your own life.

And on we go!

How Do You Change the World Then?

Paralysis by analysis.

You analyze the worlds problems, and it causes hesitation. Inaction. The problems are just so big! “What can I do…little old me? What can I do to change the world?”

The answer…

A lot.

The world is to you, what it is to you. Your perception. It occurs to you in a unique way. Maybe positive, maybe negative, maybe extremely neutral (if there is such a thing).

That also means that the world is to someone else, what it is to them. Their perception. It occurs to them in an entirely different way!

You want to change the world? You don’t do that by curing world hunger, or ending all war.

No…

You do that by changing how the world occurs for someone else.

You can’t change THE world (sorry to rain on your parade).

But…

You can change SOMEONE ELSE’S world.

How?

Take Action

First let me tell you how you DON’T change someone’s world…

Complaining. Moping around. Being lazy, selfish, ignorant.

So how is it done then?

Does it have to be huge? No.

Can it be? Sure!

I know this post seems like it’s going somewhere righteous, and holy, but I assure you it’s not.

Changing someone’s life doesn’t have to be you building a house for them, or giving them a car, or solving world hunger. It’s often more subtle.

And…

You are going to get less credit than you deserve for it.

I’ll tell you my favorite way to change someone’s world with a proverb used so frequently it’s almost cliché…

“Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.”

The key to that phrase lies in one word…

TEACH.

To invest knowledge in another person is one the most rewarding feelings that you can have. You add something to them in a way that can never be taken away, and can never run out.

You watch them grow and you mentor them as they make mistakes and you watch them change their own life using the techniques that you taught them.

By adding value to them, you are altering the trajectory of their life, and you have accomplished the seemingly huge task of changing the world, by changing their world.

Those “Bigger Problems” that you need to solve, are someone else’s problems. Take those on, and you’ll solve your own crummy little problems, and you’ll be making a difference that truly makes a difference.

-NG

 

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Be LEGEND

Motivation is fickle
and
Inspiration is unreliable
and
Focus can come and go

Being LEGEND isn’t about being more motivated, more inspired, or more focused. That’s because a LEGEND already knows that those things can’t be relied on.

What separates the LEGENDS from the rest of the world? ……”JUST GO”. That’s what.

It isn’t about if they feel like it, because they probably DON’T feel like it.
It isn’t about being moved to perform today because they don’t run on inspiration.
It isn’t about if they are focused on being organized, or winning, or engaging…

Nope! You want to know what makes them different?

The LEGENDS, they run on a different fuel. This fuel isn’t fickle and it isn’t intermittent.

This fuel makes THEM reliable.

That fuel they run on is…JUST GO

They JUST GO do the things they need to do. JUST GO do the things they are supposed to do. JUST GO do the the things that they are afraid to do.

That’s it. That’s the whole secret.

While the rest of the world look for inspiration on Pinterest and motivation on Instagram, the LEGEND is out of bed early taking action already.

While the ones that SAY they “want it” watch Netflix on the couch, the LEGEND is still out there grinding because there is work to be done!

The LEGENDs JUST GO. Despite how they feel. Despite what others say. Whether or not they get the credit or praise.

Today, let’s all work on being LEGEND. JUST GO. ATTACK.

-NG