Springsteen on Fire and Worry
“You can’t start a fire worrying about your small world diminishing apart.”
–Bruce Springsteen (1949 – )
American music artist
Sales expectations…
What you expect to happen – what you believe in your mind – can have a tremendous impact on what really does happen.
If you’re going to try to accomplish something – if you make the choice to make the attempt – the best business you can do for yourself (and your colleagues) is to expect a clear outcome. Whatever business else can only inhibit your efforts.
Worst-case: If you fail, you get an education for your future efforts.
Minimize your doubts, be positively expectant, and Cross The Line.
Remember…
We earn more challenges by dealing with and overcoming more challenges.
Embrace your experience. Delight in the weather.
weathered: (adjective) seasoned by exposure to the weather
seasoned: (adjective) made fit by experience
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Leaders: If I missed you earlier in the year with this… I’ll be giving a small online talk next week on Tuesday and Wednesday about how to keep a team of people from going through the motions at work. You can sign up here.
If you’ve not seen it, during a well-earned break or outside the money hours… Jon Stewart’s inspiring description of Bruce Springsteen at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009 (video). I watch it once a month and it still gets me fired up. If you don’t have the time to watch, I excerpted my favorite refer to from it here.
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