morning cup
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Looking for a dose of inspiration or a new perspective? Or simply need something to get your brain going Friday morning? Morning Cup is a weekly musing that makes your musing machine muse a little bit more. It is the dose of insight on Friday morning that kickstarts your brain in a simple manner. We promise to have your mind brewing in less than 3 minutes.
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The key to elite performance is spending most of your time dialing in basic performance.
Teenagers desperately want to be treated as more advanced than they might be; so do teams.
The difference between someone good and bad at tough decisions is the former commits to making them.
Your brain is more than happy to keep thinking the same thing; it requires stimulus to generate net-new thinking.
Knowing your audience when delivering a message is remembering that their brain processes differently than yours.
Does your audience need the context? Maybe. Do they need you to be succinct? Definitely.
It is easy to see all the reasons why change is hard; yet when disaster hits the reasons drastically change.
The real celebration is for the interdependent system that allows you to feel autonomous.
How will those within your system remember your contribution to their state of becoming?
Your mind will orient to pointing out gaps rather than trickling back to identify the skill needing development.
Tired? Going through change or actively learning something new? It is not a coincidence.
Owning big projects and decisions sounds fun; in reality effective ownership is something much different.
Immense excitement for coffee is a brewhaha