Logan Stout's Blog, page 8
June 24, 2013
Stout Advice: Daily Discplines
This week Logan speaks about the importance of daily disciplines. Your daily disciplines are another way of saying your daily habits. Discipline is what keeps your moving in the right direction. It keeps you grounded and focused. If you have the right daily disciplines then you have the right daily habits. Our habits determine our actions, and our actions determine our destiny.
Action items:
Write a list of what your day consists of
Make a list of the daily disciplines that get you where you want to be
June 17, 2013
Stout Advice: Discouragement
It's important to fuel our minds with quality things in order to overcome discouragement and objection in life. If we can control the space between our ears, we can control the dash between our years. It's the "dash" that represents the true journey of life, thus our quality of life.
Action Items:
Write a list of all the times you were discouraged
Write a list of all the things you need to do to help you get your mind right
June 10, 2013
Stout Advice: The Company You Keep
Be tuned in on the company you keep! It’s important that we do a great job of analyzing who we have in our lives and that we keep people around who challenge us. We are only as good as the people we associate with. Surround yourself with positive and uplifting people!
Action Items:
Write a list of the people you live with.
Write a list of the people of the people you really live life with.
June 3, 2013
Stout Advice: The Mindset of being Relational
It's important to understand the mindset of being relational vs. transactional. Relational is genuinely caring about a person and relating to them. Transactional is wanting something out of someone and having an end game. At the end of the day the transactions will take care of themselves.
Action Items:
Write down a list of all the things you've tried to accomplish. Ask yourself if you've been transactional or relational.
Write a list of all the important people in your life.
Write down a list of all times you were out of bounds. Write down the outcomes.
If you build solid relationships with people, the transactions will take care of themselves!
May 28, 2013
Stout Advice: Inspiration
What inspires you? Who inspires you? To do something huge or great it takes some kind of inspiration. We need people in our lives who lift us up and inspire us.
Action items:
Write down all the people who inspire you.
Thank the people who have inspired you.
How can you be an inspiration to somebody else?
Don't forget to mark your calendar! The Defining Success team has their first event Sept. 28th!
May 20, 2013
Stout Advice: Teamwork
One of the keys to success is surrounding yourself with great people. Great people equate to great teams. The better your teammates, the better your team.
When evaluating teamwork it’s important to ask yourself two things:
What value do you bring as an individual to all the teams you work with?
Within the teams you work with, who brings great value that you can learn from?
Action Items:
Write down a list of people you are involved with
Write down what you can do to be the best teammate as possible
Write down the things you can do better
May 6, 2013
Stout Advice: Know your why
Life is full of Why’s. Why you do something. Your purpose for what you are doing. Your why is what ultimately keeps you going through good times and the bad. Life is going to have adversity and discouraging moments but never lose track of why you are doing what it is you are doing.
Action Items:
Write down your why
Identify what locks you in
April 29, 2013
Stout Advice: Perfectionism
Perfectionism can be a both a pro and a con in life. It’s positive when it drives you to a level of success that many people don’t have a desire to achieve. Perfectionism becomes negative when you have unrealistic expectations of what you are trying to accomplish. Evaluate the areas in your life where you strive for perfecionism. Do you need to target new areas of perfectionism?
Action Items
Write down negative perfectionism
Target perfectionism to new areas
April 22, 2013
Stout Advice: Dreams
Logan talks about dreaming big!
Did you know it takes the same amount of time to dream small as it does to dream big? Life only beats you down if you allow it to. You only limit your dreams when you dream about what can’t be instead of what can be. Be inspired and dream big!
Action Items:
Write down your dreams
Make a plan for your dreams
April 15, 2013
Character is the key component to protect your talent
This week Logan speaks about character and the difference between transactional and actual relationships. Actual relationships want nothing in return. Character is doing things for others knowing that there is nothing they can do for you.
Action Items:
Transactional vs. Actual
Look back on moments of giving
Did you pass your character test?
