Do you want to maximize impact, influence, and the performance of those around you and yourself?
Here are 37 rules for doing exactly that!
- Don’t resist reality – you’ll lose every time.
- Adversity is coming, be prepared.
- Be ready in case there isn’t time to get ready.
- Invest time with those that make you better.
- View accountability as a gift.
- Earn confidence and blend it with humility.
- Be open to competent feedback.
- Be comfortable in stillness.
- Control the controllables (effort and attitude)
- Be thoughtful and intentional in your behaviors.
- Focus on the process (and not the outcome/results)
- Do what’s truly essential (let go of the rest)
- Prioritize your time (learn to say ‘no’)
- Have high personal standards of excellence
- Never negotiate your core values
- Be aware of your habits (and strive to improve them)
- Embrace self-discipline and extreme ownership.
- Be kind to yourself (and others)
- Don’t worry about a future that hasn’t happened yet.
- Assume people are doing the best they can.
- Reduce blaming, complaining, and making excuses.
- Focus on what you want FOR people, not FROM them.
- Do the best you can with what you have where you are.
- Be ready to move to the Next Play.
- Work towards mastery of the fundamentals.
- Lean into the power of the Unseen Hours.
- Actively listen as often as possible.
- Refuse to play The Comparison Game.
- Look for the lessons in everything.
- Make sure your beliefs and behaviors are aligned.
- Take a beat before responding when you’re upset.
- Every person you meet can teach you something.
- Leave every place better than you found it.
- Be OK with not knowing (life is uncertain).
- Define your own success.
- Choose curiosity/fascination over judgment/assumption.
- Success leaves clues – follow them.
