Yesterday was excellent. All the business improvements I have engaged in up until this point in the year have felt like spinning my wheels. Too much of the mindset BS and not enough action. Yesterday was all about action. All about tangible moves. Ways to improve the business in a real world sense.
I watched a documentary on the SEC and it reduced football coaches to glorified cheerleaders. It made it look like the team that gave the best motivational speech was the one that won. I get that college football is largely about the players and recruiting but modern football teams run demanding playbooks. There is a lot of motion and misdirection and pulling linemen and a whole mess of complications.
Football is all about being in the right place at the right time. If that happens then a play is going to be successful nine out of ten times and that one time it isn’t is because of extraordinary effort by the defense. Football is a much more complex sport that people give it credit for. It isn’t just a bunch of big meaty men slapping meat.
That is what all these mindset workshops and books reduce business to. It isn’t all about attitude. It is about action. You have to run the correct plays at the correct time to get to your destination and there are a lot of people out there that have successful playbooks. The problem is there aren’t that many people willing to share those plays, and when you find one you should value that to a higher degree.
Yesterday was all about that. It was all about the action items and what can be done, and done quickly, to increase the bottom line of a business. But that brings us to the first item of business. We’ve got to have the right information to know if our plays are successful, because success also depends on changing course quickly if something you thought was a good idea turns out to not be such a good idea.
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