How can I say What I Want if you:
If I know you don’t listen, act, or believe then how could I say it? How could anyone?
Would you?
Over the next four days, this blog is going to focus on incentives.
What is an incentive?
Definition of incentive
: something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action
Incentives drive our work and behavior.
Why focus on incentives?
The leader’s incentives and subsequent actions are the foundations of the business’s culture.
Intellectually, the concept of incentive is easy to grasp. And when one is not aware of the necessary actions to bring about that incentive, execution will be all over the place.
This lack of focus can have disastrous consequences because they often start small, and like a virus, effect a ton of things.
So what are we looking at tomorrow?
Tomorrow – We are looking at the incentives in your life.
Decision making is difficult, but when it happens, I’ve realized that I get better with focus. Putting my energy into something, especially with the “Do-Talk-Consume” principle, really digs deep. My life becomes engrossed in whatever discipline I choose. But, to pick that thing, I have to decide, and decisions come with a level of fear I don’t get when I decide to live with no boundaries.
We can’t do everything for everybody. Time is the only resource we have, and the only way we get to make that time count is if we sit down and work through the above fears. Each one of the questions runs through our minds when we decide to give something focus because we start abstaining from “all that life has to offer.” There is an opportunity cost with everything – things we accept and things we don’t. The fear boils down to that. The greatest truth is, we only have time. We have to make decisions to make that time count.
Note: The bold questions are the biggest offenders to me.
From the desk of Adam Thomas 