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The Two Key Components to Living with Tenacity
Tenacity is a key component to success. We must have it to reach our goals. It’s the fuel that keeps us moving through the inevitable challenges. But how often do we take the time to stop and think about what tenacity really is? Let’s spend a minute to figure out what tenacity looks like and how we can create it to use to our advantage. When I’m working with clients I often use the analogy of getting your screaming baby strapped into a car seat to illustrate tenacity. Because, if you have kids, you have experienced tenacity! When you are putting your child in their car seat your purpose is to make your baby safe. Your baby hates to feel confined and wants nothing to do with it. You can not reason with a baby or explain your logic so you must just make it happen.

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Wag More, Bark Less
I confess, this title was not made up by me. My wife saw a bumper sticker with this sentiment and shared it with me. I think the basic wisdom in the phrase is great and wish there was a way to get more managers to understand the simple logic here. Why is it that some bosses feel compelled to bark when wagging is a much more expedient way to bring out the best in people?
Passionate Leaders Rally People to the Cause
Too many people are indifferent about what they do and detached from their work. They drift through life like the bumper sticker, "I am neither for nor against apathy." Working with them, or trying to follow their lead, is about as invigorating as sitting in a cold drizzle watching your kid's team lose a baseball game.

Are you Reactive or Pro-active
Are you making things happen or are you watching things happen? Are you taking control of your life or are you watching it go right by you? These are the questions that we have to ask ourselves, this day and everyday. I hope you all know what a pinball machine is. I know it is old school but I still see them around in most arcades. In a pinball machine you have a little silver ball that gets shot up into the machine. It then gets bounced from one bumper to the next, it gets pushed. Then it gets flipped from one side to the other, it goes crazy. Just reacting to all that is happening to it. And then finally just falling down into the hole, only to start the process all over again. How about you? Do you feel like that pinball? Are you reactive or proactive?
How Well Do You Follow Your Plan?
You start your day at 7AM, energized, motivated, excited and by 830 you are crazy, off course and in total reactive mode and you stay there the rest of the day? Can you relate. I love to use the pinball story. Do you feel like the little silver ball in the pinball machine, getting shot up into the game, bouncing from one bumper to the next, rolling down the slot, getting flipped way up and finally just running into the hole. Or, do you control the process, your day, your life, your business. Doing what you said you would when you said you would the way you said you would?
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