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Geoff Blades

Keep leaping

A client is making leaps.

But he’s got a loooooong way to go.

He’s on a world-changing mission that has legs because so much is possible with technology.

Just he’s got a hard leap to make.

Here’s 5 things we’re doing.

Why?

The thing with making leaps in business and life is you’ve reaaalllly gotta want it.

Because it’s not just about where you’re leaping but making leaps in your performance.

You must know why this matters to you because making a leap is hard and you’ll back down.

When you’re feeling the strain you’ll find it easier to hang back or look for reasons to slow.

Or you push yourself to a comfortable limit vs. where a drill sergeant would get you.

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Best game

I learned a lot this week.

It’s stuff I’m pretty bad at so it was good to be here.

Here was a senior leader offsite with a client I’ve advised for many years.

I learned a lot about the business and a lot of people who I only knew by name.

But most I learned about obsession.

Obsession

Customers have an obsession with my client’s company and the games they make.

I knew this.

I’ve known they have millions and millions of people obsessively playing their games.

Been to esport world events seeing all these fans going crazy faces painted for the game.

So I thought I got this obsession but this week I got it deeper.

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Going after it!

Every day is a chase.

I bounce out of bed and go after it.

All day I’m going after it and often through the night.

What exactly I’m going after is still in some ways elusive to me!

That’s why I’m going after it.

Why?

Why do what you do?

You wake up every day, do your thing, go to bed, wake up to do another day.

In many ways this life is quite routine isn’t it and you can find yourself just ticking through the days.

That’s how it was for me back when I had a job.

They were great jobs but I wanted more.

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Go for it 🚀

At dinner with best friends in Manhattan this week she asked me what books to read.

She saw this article I wrote 11 years ago and wanted to know what books are most valuable for her to be reading.

I told her to be wary.

Is it worth your time?

You’ve gotta be careful reading.

Cut out

I read little.

About 15 years ago I cut out reading media and over recent years even cut out checking headlines.

You are what you eat and you’ve gotta be careful what you feed your brain.

It’s not just negative and often untrue, but it’s intended to consume you.

Ask yourself what is best for you to consume?

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“Full-filled”

There are things you want.

You think when you get these things you’ll feel how you want.

Then you get these things and what happens?

Well, it’s “normal” isn’t it you love these things… for a bit.

And then your brain starts thinking about the next thing you need to feel how you want, right?

Next

It’s the same cycle over and over, isn’t it?

Just a different “object” the brain thinks you need to feel what exactly?

What is the feeling we’re all targeting by wanting —>having—>getting things that then fades?

Why does this feeling fade?

What’s going on in us humans that makes it so hard to hold onto the feeling of being “full-filled?”

Have you thought much about this?

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Achieve to achieve

If you want to achieve at the highest levels you must first achieve this.

In thousands of self-help books I rarely saw this and never clearly.

Psychology and their therapy completely miss this.

Even the best schools mostly overlook it.

But achieve this, achieve all.

Highest energy

This game of life is a game of high energy.

We all know this in concept just what exactly is high energy and how exactly do you achieve it?

High vibrating energy you see in the woo-woo books like Think And Grow Rich is powerful but they never accurately define nor give you a path to achieving it.

High physical energy is your most crucial starting point but that’s a mess of advice too.

You’re told to get 8 hours sleep when world leaders sleep way less.

Exercise. Nutrition. Supplements. All true.

A mess of advice too.

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Perfect 10?

How good are you?

Out of 10 how good would you say you are?

How much of your potential have you unleashed?

Here I’m thinking in terms of your main focus in life or maybe all your life.

In your career or business or life or mind or as a parent or otherwise out of 10 how good are you?

Who cares?

I’d say many people never care.

They don’t have enough reason to care.

It doesn’t matter in their career or business or life they’re operating at a fraction of their potential.

Or even if they feel way less than 10 out of 10.

They’re not like us.

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Mssmr

I call it mssmr.

The voice in your head.

You might not be auditory dominant like me that means there’s a voice constantly yammering about this or that.

“Oh, remember this.”

“I think that.”

“I feel…”

Inner voice

That’s the psychology term we’re all familiar with.

But what does it even mean?

For starters mssmr lacks vocal cords so it’s clearly different to a voice, right?

To me it sounds more like a computer murmuring mssmr this, mssmr that.

Also the voice changes, so it’s not just a voice.

So what is it?

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M.E.D.I.A

If one change would most improve your life don’t you want to know about it?

What if I told you this one change will save you tons of time, make you much happier and even improve your relationships?

How about if you see this one change is easy to make, completely free and proven to benefit billions of people?

Is this something you would want to know?

Perhaps even consider changing?

Pandemic

I keep hearing about a pandemic of misery.

Not just the ordinary misery of people hating their job or complaining about this or that.

But a special type of misery impacting the most vulnerable in our society we love and want to protect.

I’m curious if you’ve seen it for yourself as I keep hearing about it with friends and clients because it is about their parents.

What we’ve decoded is older people sitting at home with little to do are gorging on media that is making them terribly unhappy and even unbearable to be around.

And of course it’s not just them.

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Locked in

Hi there,

How are you?

What’s happening with you?

I miss you 🙂 I haven’t written much recently and love coming back to it.

Tell me something…

So…

How are you doing?

I’m doing awesome. Lots of good stuff going.

Just loving getting it done and you look up and see half the year has flown by!

Does it feel the same way for you? How is your year? How are things with you?

I’m curious if you’d like to share coz I’d love to hear what’s going on with you?

Because I haven’t written recently I’m out of touch and would love to learn more about you.

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Happy stupidly unrealistic new year!

“If I’ve learned anything from you it’s that New Year’s Resolutions are stupid!” my good mate Terry wrote me.

I agree with me 🙂 they can be stupid and also can be stupidly powerful when you’re setting “real” goals.

The difference comes back to this word “Resolution” and your level of resolve.

80% of Resolutions are quit by February 15 when you achieve everything with limitless resolve.

So let them make flakey Resolutions while you live limitless goals.

Limitless goals

If you are certain that you will achieve your goal then it’s never a goal.

That’s where many people are stuck in life avoiding any fear of failure never stretching for any goals.

Goals don’t have to be of the BHAG (big hairy audacious goal) variety but it is a lot more fun this way!

It’s good to be realistic about what’s possible and also good to ask yourself just how good can it get?

Like Jeff Bezos in 1994 watching the internet growing at 2,300% a year he wasn’t certain where it was headed but was convinced to make a bold bet.

Certainly it would have been a stretch goal just to get Amazon started and build a dominant online bookstore but Jeff Bezos had his sights set on a grander vision.

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“You’ve got this”

I don’t know what “this” is for you.

But I do know that you’ve got this.

You know how I know?

Because you’ve gotta know that you’ve got this.

You’ve just gotta know.

Gotta know

You’ve just gotta know.

I don’t know how to say it any more directly than you’ve just gotta know that you’ve got this.

Whatever it is that you’re focused on doing.

Whatever it is that you’re looking to achieve.

Whoever it is that you’re dreaming to be.

You’ve just gotta know you are this.

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Take your shot

He missed.

One shot to make history and he missed his shot.

Now in all fairness he didn’t entirely miss as the supersonic 556 round tore through the top of president Trump’s ear and he’ll still go down in history as a terrible murderer.

But all that training and planning and borrowing Dad’s gun and buying the ladder and ammo and walking to the rally and taking his range finder through security and standing around measuring the shot and oh so cunningly outwitting the secret service and climbing up on the roof and crawling across in broad daylight rifle swinging around for everyone to see, all that to miss his shot.

As they say you miss 100% of the shots that you never take and you also miss plenty that you do.

Trump misses

Even Trump has had many misses, this perhaps his gravest.

In business. In life. In his influence. In losing the last election.

But one thing that you always see from this man is he gets back up and takes his shot over and over again.

Some missed shots you never stand back up like the terrible shooter knew the snipers wouldn’t miss.

Yet outside of worst cases nearly always you have the chance to stand again.

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Back yourself in

Hold onto your hat!

We’re already on a wild ride, aren’t we?

How are you doing with all these things going on in the world?

None of us can know where it’s headed but you do know one thing.

The world keeps moving forward and so must you.

You do this best when you back yourself in.

Back yourself

People spend their lives backing others but how many of us are backing ourselves?

It’s like all those people who spend hours a day and decades of their precious life backing a sports and political team but never back themselves in anything.

At the end of our lives we all know the cliche that you regret the things that you never did and you never need wait till the end to begin regretting.

That’s like so many of my friends who have blindly backed president Biden now trying to figure out who exactly they’re backing.

Biden has played an A+ game outwitting them all by backing himself in.

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Happy new best year ever

Hello there,

How are you doing?

I hope that you are doing as good as you can be.

Of course this hasn’t been the best of years in plenty of ways but I hope that this has been the best year it can be for you!?

At the start of this year I wrote about making this your best year ever and I can happily share with you that this has been the best year ever for me 🙂

It’s unfortunately been my second worst year on mission for humanity looking out at this world I love so much that [fill in your best description of what is going on!]

Jacking my back and living in quite some pain with limited mobility for the first half of this year wasn’t the best either.

Yet like from a caterpillar the chrysalis creates something beautifully new the worse can also bring out your best too.

No matter what’s going on, running your own brain you can make the best of every day, every year, if you choose.

Happy new best year ever

One and only

I cracked the code.

It was by far the most important evolution of my life.

But cracking the secret code to how you live your best life isn’t enough.

Just like any type of achieving, knowing the solution is as useless as knowing how to lose weight.

You must be living it.

Best life?

What would you say creates your best life?

Would you say that you are living your best life now?

I don’t necessarily mean right now, although as you keep reading you’ll see this is exactly what I mean, but for now more generally, would you say that you are living the life that you truly want?

Many people I know are because we are all into these topics we’re all doing our best every day for living our best lives.

But, I also know that’s not the norm in our society.

Especially now many people feel stuck in their jobs or businesses or lives or marriages or financial situation or addictions or habits or lack or media or unhappiness or just about every other thing that can trap you in life.

And you know what they all come back to?

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Why he is one of the best presidents

Right at the start of the interview she goes after him.

No pleasantries, her opening question is an attack.

Without hesitation she’s going for the wound.

And it’s not even politics.

This is business.

It’s all good, he’s a master at this.

“Stock lagging”

“When you look at the strategy set by Goldman Sachs,” the Bloomberg reporter opens this interview, “Help us understand Goldman’s stock has been lagging on a price to book basis from some of its rivals, what are investors not seeing?”

Not nuclear, but aggressive, right?

That’s her opening question to the President of Goldman Sachs, John Waldron.

Right out the gates she’s challenging him to explain their lagging performance.

Now, look what he does with it.

“Well, first of all it’s great to have you in our building, thanks for taking the time,” he begins, “Today was an important day for us, as you said it was our second investor day in our 23 or so years as a public company…”

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Are you “presenting” or compelling?

It was embarrassing.

Like the first time walking into the boxing gym, except I thought I was good at this.

How could I not be good at it?

I’d worked at Goldman Sachs for some eight years at this point.

Hundreds, thousands of meetings I had attended.

Books, decks, presentations, whatever you call it, I’d pulled together hundreds maybe thousands of these too.

We thought we knew exactly what we were doing.

But now this legendary business magnate was schooling us like juniors.

Don’t know

A most wonderful and also most scary concept in life is you don’t know what you don’t know.

For years maybe even your entire life you can be doing something a certain way thinking that you know what you’re doing.

And then one day, maybe when it’s too late to even correct, you learn that what you were doing was terribly wrong, or at least you could have been doing it much better.

It’s never your fault, you can only know what you know.

And unfortunately, like a terrible drunk dancer at a wedding thinking that they’re lighting up the floor, you may never know.

In a worst case there’s nobody to even point it out because they also don’t know what you don’t know.

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“But how do I decide?”

“Stay the course,” I said to her.

“But which one?” she desperately responded.

“Do I stay in my current job or make a move?”

“YES, exactly,” I replied.

“But, which one?” she repeated.

“Yes, you’ve got it now,” laughingly I said.

Which way?

Can you see what I was doing with her?

We were having a little fun playing with the binary answer that she thought she needed.

Like many of us at different points in our lives she felt at a crossroad.

At these seeming forks in the road we’re often pushed to make a binary, “exclusive or” choice of one thing vs. another, aren’t we?

A problem at these junctures is that it can be very hard to decide between this vs. that, can’t it?

That’s what I was playfully leading her brain through making this transition more fun.

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“Playing to win”

You know the quote that 90% of success is just showing up?

A client jokes that among successful people the number is closer to 100% 🙂

As he sees it, most successful people landed a successful job and then just kept showing up.

It’s a reason why it’s hard for him to find leaders.

“How many are TRULY focused on winning?” he asks.

Winning

He’s like this bold Aussie football coach who has been offending the locals.

In Australia, contrary to what people can think is the culture, you just don’t speak this way.

Even in the winningest world of sports you just kind of show up and play your game and see how you do at the end of the day.

Then you be real humble about the other team and how you gave it your best, and so on.

That’s how this coach has gotten offside with the yahoos.

He keeps talking about winning.

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