A few weeks ago, a client "gifted" me a copy of Gary Mack's book, Mind Gym.
I added it to "the queue," and today I picked it up and headed outside to my front yard. In about an hour and a half, I made my way through this wonderful reminder of how important it is to "be my best" and prepare to perform, before I have to do so.
I wrote a card to Mr. Mack, hopefully it'll make it all the way to his house in Arizona. Here are some of the areas, ideas and quotes that jumped out to me while reading:
- From pages 215-218, Mr. Mack talks about a study out of Harvard on the "five L's of a successful life." I see the one to focus on over the next little while is "Labor." While reading these paragraphs, I thought about how with a slight increase in the effort I'm making, I can add much more value to the work I'm doing.
- On page 202, there's a quote from Mia Hamm, "Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation." For the companies I work with on the street, I see a good day, a bad day, and a learning day doing this as well. For the people I work with in public services, their work, too, can be a reference point (or a stepping stone) to an increase in opportunity, ability and knowledge. What do YOU do that builds those four things?
- Trying hard is, well...Harder. In my line of work - studying the psychology behind productivity - I have seen the highest form of inaction to be too much action at once. Multi-tasking, back-to-back meetings, coming in early and staying late into the evening are all ways to get things done, but I've seen them be ways to get things done that slows people down.
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