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AWARENESS + ABILITY + CHOICES = CAPACITY
Today, I’m asking you to throw your cap over the wall.
Too many people hear the word capacity and assume it’s a limitation.
The most fundamental assumption in economics is scarcity.
we need to define our world and ourselves in terms of our possibilities.
Self-awareness is a powerful skill. It enables you to see yourself clearly. It informs your decisions and helps you to weigh opportunities. It allows you to test your limits. It empowers you to understand other people. It makes partnership with others stronger. It allows you to maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses. It opens the door to greater capacity.
who we are determines how we see others.
Sad is that day for any man when he is absolutely satisfied with the life that he is living, thoughts that he is thinking, deeds that he is doing, until there ceases to be forever knocking on the door of his soul, a desire to do something greater for God and his fellow-man.
Discipline Capacity—Your Choice to Focus Now and Follow Through
“If you want to be pushed to your limits, you have to train to your limits.” —SEAL
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“Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.”
C. S. Lewis identified complacency as a human being’s mortal enemy. Do
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“Don’t put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.”
Energy Capacity—Your Ability to Push On Physically Emotional Capacity—Your Ability to Manage Your Emotions Thinking Capacity—Your Ability to Think Effectively People Capacity—Your Ability to Build Relationships Creative Capacity—Your Ability to See Options and Find Answers Production Capacity—Your Ability to Accomplish Results Leadership Capacity—Your Ability to Lift and Lead Others
Requirement—What I have to do Return—What I do well Reward—What I love to do
Ask yourself, “What fully charges me?”
Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle!
Energy Capacity Questions 1. What are the activities, people, tasks, and places that sap your energy? 2. What are the activities, people, tasks, and places that give you greater energy? 3. In what areas of your life are you not maximizing your energy and the energy of the people around you?
“Motions are the precursors of emotions.” —M. Asch
“Without resilience, the first failure is also the last—because it’s final.”
Use the Power of Proximity Principle: “Get next to ten people who can take you to the next level.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
“There are so many people who are not productive because they’ve already made an inventory of everything that they cannot do,” Paul explains, “and that becomes a ‘because.’
Fail Fast, Fail First, and Fail Often
To increase production capacity, initiate many tries at one thing, not one try at many things.
One of the illustrations in Maltz’s book pointed out the difference between a thermometer and a thermostat. Paul had been a thermometer that simply reported on his condition. But he turned himself into a thermostat, which changes the conditions. If you want to be more productive, you need to take charge of your own productivity. You need to become a thermostat.
“When I look at all my successes,” says Paul, “I see teams. Guardian
“What do I want them to feel?” As leaders,
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Never focus on making money—focus on making people. 2. Never focus on starting companies—focus on starting people. 3. Never focus on growing production—focus on growing people.
Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, says, “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”
1. Intentionality—What do you want to accomplish? Cut down a tree. 2. Practicality—How are you going to accomplish it? Swing the ax. 3. Focus—How many trees? Chop one tree, not scar many trees. 4. Action—How many swings? Five swings. 5. Consistency—How often? Every day.
Responsibility Capacity—Your Choice to Take Charge of Your Life Character Capacity—Your Choices Based on Good Values Abundance Capacity—Your Choice to Believe There Is More Than Enough Discipline Capacity—Your Choice to Focus Now and Follow Through Intentionality Capacity—Your Choice to Deliberately Pursue Significance
Attitude Capacity—Your Choice to Be Positive Regardless of Circumstances Risk Capacity—Your Choice to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone Spiritual Capacity—Your Choice to Strengthen Your Faith Growth Capacity—Your Choice to Focus on How Far You Can Go Partnership Capacity—Your Choice to Collaborate with Others
If we don’t take control of the direction our lives will take, we leave ourselves to the mercy of others, often with disastrous consequences.3
Responsibility Builds Your Self-Esteem
Responsibility Makes You Ready for Action
Responsibility Makes Your Habits Serve You
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.” —Lou Holtz
Abraham Lincoln said, “Character was like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
love the way trainer and speaker Mark Tyrrell describes self-discipline. He says, Over the years I’ve come to see self-discipline as an invisible magic. You can’t see, taste, or smell it, but its effects are huge. It can transform fat into slim, sag into buff, uninformed into expert, poor into rich, misery into happiness. It’s the submerged part of the iceberg others don’t see when they see your “genius.”1
Tyrrell says that too many people see life as a waiting room. I think that’s true. People sit and wait for for their names to be called. But success does not come looking for us.
“Once you have a burning yes inside you about what’s truly important, it’s very easy to say no to the unimportant.” —Stephen R. Covey
6. Follow Through, Even When It Hurts
Life is not a dress rehearsal. There are no do-overs for days, weeks, or years that we waste.
I want to do more than be successful by leaving an inheritance for others. I want to create a legacy by leaving an inheritance in others.
“Pessimistic people tend to view problems as internal, unchangeable, and pervasive, whereas optimistic people are the opposite.” —Davies Guttmann
