1: We get mixed up.
Means, ends, and by-products are not the same thing.
“A profound distinction is concealed among those prosaic terms,” Panera Bread Company founder Ron Shaich writes in his powerful book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations, “one that unlocks the code to designing a business and a life of enduring value.”
Exhibit one: Ron’s friend who has type 1 diabetes.
“He wants … continue reading
1: “To create anything of value—whether it’s a product, a company, a society, or a life,” Ron Shaich writes in his powerful book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations, “we must push through our default settings.”
How do we do that?
“By living consciously and deliberately, by making the hard choices, and by using tools … to discover what will really matter, again and again.”… continue reading
1: “I learned the most important lesson of my life as my father’s life came to its end,” Ron Shaich writes in his terrific book Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations.
The year was 1998. Ron was CEO of Au Bon Pain, a prominent chain of French-inspired bakery-cafés. The following year, the company would change its name to Panera Bread Company.
“Several years after a … continue reading
1: “I got sober the first time when I was around thirty,” the friend said. “After two years of sobriety I had a slip. I took a sip of white wine at a party.”
The man continued: “I could have gone to a meeting, confessed my slip, and recommitted, but instead I thought to myself, ‘Since I took one sip, I might as well just finish the glass—it would be … continue reading
“Many of the opportunities you have in your life are generated by the energy you create around you.” —Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
1: It’s Tuesday. Time to take on the day.
There is, however, a hidden enemy working against us.
“Every time we switch tasks,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time, our “brains have to switch focus.”
The technical term for this is “context … continue reading
1: Sometimes, entrepreneur and author Dan Martell plays a little game with his coaching clients.
“It’s a mini-test disguised as a simple question,” he writes in his book Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire.
He sends a text: “Do you have time for a quick call in the next hour?”
How they answer gives Dan insight into how that coaching client is … continue reading
Yesterday, we looked at how Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, Tom Clancy, and Andy Warhol spent their time.
How can we apply the lessons from this diverse group of incredibly successful people? Dan Martell asks in his book Buy Back Your Time.
We begin by creating a 2×2 matrix where we analyze how valuable each task we are doing in terms of (1) money and (2) … continue reading
1: Legendary investor Warren Buffett was talking with his personal pilot, Mike Flint.
Mike was “bemoaning his lack of clarity around his personal and professional aspirations and goals,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.
Warren instructed Mike to write down twenty-five career goals, “all the things he wanted to focus on and accomplish in the months and years ahead,” Sahil notes.
Mike made … continue reading
1: It was a warm California evening in May 2021. Sahil Bloom and an old friend sat down for a drink.
“As we settled in at our table, he asked how I was doing,” Sahil writes in The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
“I gave him the standard response that we’ve all grown so accustomed to: ‘I’m good. Busy!'” he recalls, “with … continue reading
1: A large passenger jet left New Zealand for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica. 257 people were on board. The year was 1979.
“Unknown to the pilots, however, someone had modified the flight coordinates by a mere two degrees,” recounts famed German pilot Dieter Utchdorf in Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in 10x Is Easier Than 2x.
“This error placed the aircraft 28 miles to the east of … continue reading
