Intensity
Source: (the brain expansion group- linked-in)
Over the last several months, I have really internalized how important spending time with and surrounding yourself with the right people can be to your health and success. It’s truly amazing how much impact the emotions and energy of those around you can have on your life. The phrase iron sharpens iron is so true but it’s only a small piece what having great people around you really means. If you want to be a high performing, highly energetic, focused person, surround yourself with people that have same energy, and it will be so much easier for you to get there.
Humans naturally absorb the behavior and emotions of those around us. Have you ever had someone in the office or at home in such a bad mood that it sucked you into a bad mood? On the other side can you think of a time you were in the room with a “super nova” - someone so successful and so dialed in that that they made you want to get up and run through a brick wall? It’s the reason charismatic speakers have such great followings. Energy and emotions are created and fed by the people around us and we all want the good ones.
As leaders this is your main job. Leadership is about transferring energy and emotion to those around you. Whether it’s a sense of belonging, a level of intensity or a spirit of growth…. It all starts with the leader. If you want your team to be better, you must first be better.
Your tone, your mood, your joy, your work ethic, and your intensity are all contagious. If you are feeling your team slowing down, being negative, or losing steam you need to look in the mirror. By upping your personal energy and intensity and/or adding new people that run at a faster pace, you will naturally pull your team to a more positive direction. If you want your team to grow, start growing. If you want your team to make better sales calls, start making better sales calls. Your energy creates more energy. And it’s your job to create it.
Who brings fuel to you and what kind of fuel are you bringing to others? Be mindful of this… because it’s all contagious.
Notes that Resonated
Watching your competition too closely draws you into playing someone else’s game and makes you lose focus on your own
Love Mondays by having a better plan
It's not enough to simply apply effort; you must work on the right things.
One hour solving the right problem beats ten hours working on the wrong thing
Remarkable people are not remarkable… they just learn to be good repeatably
Doing big things is about doing a lot of little things repeatedly
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity
Little and often = steady progress
Are you the pacesetter? What are you doing to set the pace?
Growing older is a privilege some don’t have. Cherish it.
Things to read
When- Daniel Pink
(the power of the perfect timing)
The best thing I got out of this book was about how to handle a mid-point sag. The middle of the year is too far from the beginning to be motivating and too far from the end to have a last-minute push. Daniel shares some ideas on how to get over the hump. He also gives some good tips on understanding your natural time rhythm and how to get the most productivity from it. This book isn’t for everyone but if you are looking for time hacks, leveraging your natural time rhythms or overcoming being behind, this book has some good tips to help.
Videos to watch
Motivation, level up your performance with intensity
Top Quotes
Intensity is the price of excellence – Warren Buffet
Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success - Maye musk
Imagination is a preview to the coming attractions -Albert Einstein
Things to Discover
Summer Games to keep kids off their screens:
This could be a good team building game too. First to fill the carton get $100 :)
Food & Drink
Pasta Limone: https://youtu.be/YO1yLM_91e8?si=2bhi7-jypaHV3Hd5
Creamier pasta Limone: