Greg's Right FIT #401

Quick notes to help you grow your business in less time with less effort. . . sometime next week. 

In this issue: 

- Thoughts on Lists
- Being Human
- Random Stuff

Thoughts on Lists

• I'm a fan of lists. Especially making lists. It's a way of structuring your thinking in a clear, linear way. Moving items on the lists helps you prioritize and work through challenges.

• Lists help with memory reinforcement. It's information in a digestible form. The quick reading format gives you an overview and minimizes things you might overlook otherwise.

• List making isn't a perfect exercise though. It can lead to the dreaded "paralysis by analysis." A good list maker will come up with more and more details and categories. Use them sparingly. Using lists with free-writing and a time limit helps.

• I just finished a list booklet companion to "The Sales Momentum Mindset," my new book coming out this winter. The booklet should be ready to go in a week or two. Over 300 bullet points around sales momentum. Good stuff. 

Being Human - The only constant

"Heraclitus, I believe, says that all things pass and nothing stays, and comparing existing things to the flow of a river, he says you could not step twice into the same river.”  – Plato

(a note to myself)

We make lists. We make plans. We know what we want, and we know how to get it. 

Stuff happens. 

That tension between what we want from life and what life gives us propels us forward. 

Remember the "Shoot the Moon" toy? The one where you try to roll the ball uphill, defying the law of gravity?

The tension between the rods, ball, and gravity create motion. 

We need the tension between what we want to happen and what actually happens. It sustains motion. It gives us hope. It keeps us curious. 

The last bit is the important one. Stay curious. It's part of the secret sauce of a life well lived. Keep at it. See what happens.  Take notes and send them back to your people. Leave artifacts. 

Look for the good stuff. Don't be afraid of the bad stuff. 

Random Stuff

“I wanted a jumper." – Douglas Henshall (Shetland TV series)

My nephew turned 18 this week. I ordered a sweater this week.

While these two events seem random, they are related. 

I think I am stuck in 1987, my 18th year. I wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, and my balding pate is parted on the same side. 

Sure, there have been variations on the themes over the years, but I'm pretty locked in.

I wonder if my nephew will still be looking at the world through today's lens in 2059? Will he still listen to the same music, wear his hair the same way, and clothe himself in the same general fashion?

Will he find himself watching a tv show, take note of the costumes, hunt down the source of the good, and order a sweater that looks just like the one he remembers the coolest kid in the school wearing back in the day? One that might not look so great on his slightly swollen frame? 

I guess we'll have to wait and see. 

(mine gets here in a week)