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Recipe
Rainmakers follow a well-honed recipe for success, which is only 1/10th product knowledge. Hire great chefs, not ingredient specialists. — Sakfucius
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Forecasts
Why do companies promote their most prolific rainmakers to roles where they watch spreadsheets and forecast sales most of the time? Promote, but keep them chasing customers.
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Left Behind
AI is about to change our world. Will you be left behind or will you embrace it to become better at everything you do? — Sakfucius
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Control and Stress
Ask yourself if today’s challenge is within your circles of control or influence. Don’t torpedo your attitude and efforts by focusing on aspects you can’t control or the past. — Sakfucius
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Careful Expectations
The wise set high but make-able goals. When your expectations are too high, you are setting your sites on the valley of despair and disappointment. — Sakfucius
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Kids
Let kids figure out a lot of their own problems. Better to ask questions than to zoom in with a solution. — Sakfucius
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Magic
Work and action are where the magic happens. — Sakfucius
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Discipline
Are you disciplined or motivated? It is much better to be disciplined. — Sakfucius
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Permission
Millions of ideas have died untried because someone asked for his manager’s permission. — Sakfucius
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Green Lights
Don’t wait for the lights to all turn green. There is never a perfect time. — Sakfucius
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Thoughtful Mistakes
We all make regrettable mistakes, but some people don’t learn the lessons and repeat them. — Sakfucius
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Sacrifice
Exceedingly few succeed without sacrifice. Do what it takes. — Sakfucius
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Stratospheric Lifegoals
Many aim for a top 1% of 1% goal but few become NFL or Hollywood stars. Set your dream goal, but work on an 80% chance backup goal too. — Sakfucius
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Get More Done
You can get through life without writing things down but the ones who use ink get much more done. — Sakfucius
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Put Things Off
What if you decided to never procrastinate on important, impactful tasks, even when they are daunting? — Sakfucius
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Wishful Thinking
Wishful thinking is but step one. Only doing, striving, trying, risking, stumbling, overcoming, learning, improving oneself, helps. — Sakfucius
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Measure Progress
Turning a worthy goal into reality has a number of milestones that must happen in order. Do you have them written down with target dates? — Sakfucius
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Firm but Nice
Firm but nice is a great way to get stuff done. Too many people jump to anger which might work once in a while but burns bridges longer term. — Sakfucius
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Action Plan
Many people want things to go their way, but the most successful actually write out a plan and get to work. — Sakfucius
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Momentum is Fragile
Sharing too much too soon about your plans, before taking massive action, is likely to kill your momentum. — Sakfucius
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Procrastination
Does anything frustrate you more than procrastinating on items that you must do? What if you made 20 minutes of progress on one of those items in the morning while your will power is strong? — Sakfucius
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Humor
Humor is WD-40 when selling your ideas. It doesn’t take much to lighten the mood and improve the reception. — Sakfucius
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Crazy
Einstein was right: change is essential. It is crazy to expect different outcomes if you keep doing the same things the same way. — Sakfucius
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Plan Ahead
Many worry about unlikely future scenarios but don’t plan ahead for the three most likely ones. — Sakfucius
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Learning from Mistakes
The first step in learning from a mistake is to admit wholeheartedly that you made one. — Sakfucius
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Changing Opinions
Is it easier to change someone’s opinion by forceful argument or by asking questions that help him come to your logical destination? — Sakfucius
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Next Episode
Always leave the person you meet looking forward to the next episode. Too much of anyone is never a good thing. — Sakfucius
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Five Minute Momentum
When a task pops up, do it right then if it will take less than five minutes. Watch your momentum grow. — Sakfucius
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Success
Success comes to the patient who stay focused for long periods of struggle. Patience is the magic ingredient. — Sakfucius
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Data Driven
The minute you start tracking anything, you will start making progress. Just log it, no matter if it’s net worth, food, fitness, scores, complaints, or excuses. — Sakfucius
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Lasting Value
What one thing did you do this week that will offer lasting value? If the answer is nothing, perhaps prioritize one strategic big rock next week? — Sakfucius
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Did You
Did you try? Sometimes the odds look bleak but you can’t be certain it will not work unless you actually, wholeheartedly, tried. — Sakfucius
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Managing
Managing people well starts with setting a mission and collaborating on how to get it done. Do it my way only works for a short while. — Sakfucius
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Steady Tortoise
What if you got one task of lasting value done each day, one step toward a greater goal? Be the tortoise. — Sakfucius
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Better Goals
Never write down a goal without jotting down why you want to achieve it. — Sakfucius
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Physical Reflection
Your fitness is a mirror reflection of your daily diet, activity, and recovery habits. Change daily habits to change your long-term fitness. — Sakfucius
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Data-Driven Biofeedback
Is your health and fitness data-driven? When you have accurate data, it becomes easier to change, to experiment, and to understand progress. — Sakfucius
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Never Everything
Know that you will never get everything done, so what will you focus on this month? — Sakfucius
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Undeveloped Film
Ideas can be shockingly valuable or incredibly cheap. An idea that doesn’t get developed by someone’s action and effort is almost worthless. — Sakfucius
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Merit Pay
Avoid getting paid by the hour. When you get paid by outcomes, the value, quality, and effort for both sides skyrockets. — Sakfucius
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Nine Sunny Hours
Pitch ideas in the morning, preferably on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. People are twice as open and positive during those nine hours each week. — Sakfucius
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Quid Pro Quo Society
If you don’t ask someone for a favor, nothing will happen. Chain reactions often start with an ask. — Sakfucius
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Optimism not Optional
Optimism is absolutely required to grow, to prosper, to succeed, to really live. — Sakfucius
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Better Goals
No one builds a beautiful house without a blueprint. Do you have written goals? Do they include a written why, and how, and milestones, and a plan with a timeline? — Sakfucius
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Action Plan
You must have a plan of action for today or chances are that today will be lost to petty urgencies. — Sakfucius
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Priceless
Talk is cheap, decisive committed action is priceless. — Sakfucius
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Fail a Bunch
When is the last time you had a failure? If it’s been a while, you are not pushing the envelope, you are not growing fast enough if at all. — Sakfucius
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Admit It
Admit when you were wrong. Own it. It helps you learn and move forward quickly. — Sakfucius
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Patience
Extraordinary people combine continuous action and progress with the patience to let things play out. — Sakfucius
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Operating System
Our habits are our own operating system. It is never about will power. Improve by rewiring your habits. — Sakfucius
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Wishful
There’s a huge gap between wishful thinking and wishful doing. — Sakfucius
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Numero Uno
What’s your number one goal right now? Are you making weekly progress? How are you measuring it? — Sakfucius
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Mount Everest
Overcome Mount Everest challenges one step at a time. Don’t freeze up in the face of large endeavors. — Sakfucius
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Initiative
There is no substitute for taking initiative and decisive action. Become a trailblazer. — Sakfucius
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Courage
Courage to try things determines how big or small your life will be. — Sakfucius
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I’m Not Motivated
Clearly visualize the outcome, get started, stay with it for a bit. Motivation usually comes after you start, not before. — Sakfucius
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Talk Less, Try More
How do you know any outcome unless you actually tried your idea? — Sakfucius
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Keep it Quiet
Keep your projects quiet until they are done. It avoids the trap of celebrating before the work is done, the noise from naysayers, and the dumbing down of your ideas from group opinions. — Sakfucius
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Lasting Value
Create assets of lasting value. Too many work all their hours and have nothing to leverage in the future. — Sakfucius
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Be Wary
Telling people what you plan to do backfires as critics, pessimists, advisors, admirers, and the envious all take their shots at your idea. Do it first, show it later. — Sakfucius
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Open Office
Don’t schedule important work when you know you will be interrupted, as it will lead to little else but frustration. — Sakfucius
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Luck
Luck happens much more often when you invest time being prepared. — Sakfucius
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Choose to Forget
Why think about bad stuff from your far gone past? Is it helping you or hurting your progress, your attitude, your life? — Sakfucius
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The Right Advice
Recruit mentors before you need them. People love to offer advice but you must develop those relationships long before you need them. — Sakfucius
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Seek Change
Do you analyze, fine-tune, and get better with every attempt, or do you do the same things and hope for different outcomes? — Sakfucius
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Grit Girl / Grit Guy
Few people have grit. Grit means staying on mission, undeterred by anyone or anything, for however long it takes. Be Grit Girl or Grit Guy. You won’t regret it. — Sakfucius
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The Wise
The wise ask the right question. — Sakfucius
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Next Episode
Design your business meetings so that everyone in the room wants and looks forward to the next meeting. — Sakfucius
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Setbacks
Setbacks are inevitable to become all you can be. — Sakfucius
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Flaws
All of us have many flaws but are you working to improve one of yours right now? Do you have a written why, a plan, and milestones with target dates? — Sakfucius
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I Tried Everything
Too often, we utter ‘I tried everything’ — and it is never true. Average people try one or two ways, then give up when they don’t get the results expected. Extraordinary people try dozens of ways without faltering on their goals and vision. — Sakfucius
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Triple your Struggles
Do your best, one day at a time. Overthink a challenge and you will triple your struggle. — Sakfucius
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Be the Tortoise
98.6% of success in life is accomplished by tortoises, not hares. Be the slow and steady tortoise. — Sakfucius
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Rewards of Capitalism
Capitalism rewards business ownership; therefore, invest in healthy businesses at a fair price. — Sakfucius
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Greatness on the Edge
To make greatness happen, live a bit on the edge and don’t always play it safe. — Sakfucius