StrategiesForSuccessFifty: TheFirstForty: Director'sCutCribSheet

1. Clarity: Ask the question of yourself and insist on an answer. Even if it takes a lifetime.
2. Resilience: The myth we are sold from kindergarten is that it will be easy. In fact it will be hard.
3. Focus: And how do you know what is important? We always do. We just need to slow down enough so that our heart and our gut and our mind (probably in that order) reminds us.
4. Decision: The real reason the tough decisions of our Life are so hard is that we are distracted by 'lesser' decisions we are delaying.
5. Action: A decison is not a decision until you take an action.
6. Learn Fast and Deep: If there were a list of strategies for failure, number one would probably be: failure to learn.
7. Back to Zero: what would I do differently if I started afresh? What would I do if I were starting over?
8. Eliminate Distractors: As a lawn become untidy with leaves, a child's playroom littered with Lego bricks and a kitchen with dirty coffee mugs so business life becomes cluttered with poor practices and non effective approaches. Eliminate them.
9. Now: There's now addiction: 'I've got to check my mail' and there's now action.
   
10. Knowledge: Read, grab every decent training course you can and learn. Get damned good at a few things. And then a lot of things.
11. The Forward View: The Forward View is a sweep through the schedule. Up mountain, down valley and across river-bed. It is surveying the terrain to ensure there are no surprises.
12. Jolt The Brain: And notice how the universe seems somehow larger, friendlier and full of possibilities.
13. Work Hard: It's not fashionable. It's certainly not cool. It's definitely not the exclusive way. But it works.
14. Start: But ultimately you have to start as that is the only way, the only way, to discover whether this is going to work
15. Wake Up (1): There's alarm-clock wake-up. That's OK. There's where's my first cup of coffee wake-up? That's just OK, too. But then there is that leap-out-of-bed-let's-change-the world-and-make-it-a-better-place-and-I'm-not-going-to -put-up-with-any-f**king-cr**py-meetings-today-and-I-am-going-to-remind-her-how-much-I-love-her-and-send her-flowers-stuff-the-expense-kind-of-wake-up.
16. Basics First: Woody Allen famously said: 80% of success is turning up. And if that seems too easy, too trite, observe your business day.
17. Write It Down: When you write it down you have to frame it, consider it and reduce it to its essence. The process takes your thinking to the next level.
18. Friends: Not Facebook friends. Not drinking friends. Certainly not demanding and/or judging friends. But those who are there for you.
19. Perspective: Shift perspective and insight will appear. Just don't mention paradigm shift; that really will stymie your breakthroughs.
20. Pace: Pace is key to success. Like the long-distance runner who knows when to use-and when to conserve-energy, adjusting your pace allows you to get exactly what you want.
21. The Long Game: Be willing to create base camp and climb from there. The long game: uniquely human.
22. Follow up: Once out into the world of commerce and family something eventually dawns: no task is ever complete
23. Switch Off: Data in, data out. But if there is too much data going in. If the data is going in continuously. If the data is coming from various untamed sources. Then it's tricky getting quality data out.
24. Getting Better All The time: Some get worse at what what they do. No longer such a good short-order chef. Some stagnate. Sort of not a bad accountant. Some get better.
25. Re-Boot: We'll stumble, trip and get dis-orientated before we get there. Yes: re-boot.
26. Move On: But most of the time: move on. The slate can be wiped clean. New images, colours and dreams can be created.
27. Add One, Drop One: But one good way of enhancing the likelihood of success is avoiding over-load.
28. Momentum Through Immersion: out of that immersion, suddenly we will kick-start back into proper progress,
29. Easy Does It:  Know when to take a break. When to laugh at oneself. When to switch it all off and go see a movie. When to stop texting and drop her a real love letter (even though you live with her).
30. Wake Up (2) : Re-register that life is spectacular. Wake up.
31. More Music: Music changes mood; Music-the right music, at the right time accelerates success.
32. Point of View: We live in a malleable universe. What You See Is What You Get.
33. Ready For Anything: How ready can you be? With consideration and judicious use of this list. Anything.
34. Acceptance: Goals are great. Ambition is no bad thing. Drive is exciting. But acceptance is cool.
35. That Knowing Feeling: Sometimes, just sometimes you just know you are on to something: It's worth tuning in: your heart and your gut always know.
36. Know Your Enemy: Not the enemy. Your enemy.
    
37. time vs. TIME: Not all time is the same. Think return on time.
    
38. Are You Kidding? You can fix it. You can.
    
39. Balance? Stay grounded, connected, in balance.
    
40. Enjoy Yourself? Otherwise: what is the point?
    

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