Clarity Compressed with Paul J. Daly

I’m too excited not to tell you this first…I’m hosting an IN-PERSON event in Philly in early November. This one is geared toward retail automotive and capacity is very limited. Registration is opening this week. If you want to be first to know, register here.

Now on to our regular programming…I changed my mind literally moments before I hit record on this week's episode. I was going to talk about a book, but instead decided to talk about all the things we so easily take for granted.

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it's taught us that so many of the great things we enjoy in life can be removed suddenly and sometimes savagely. But the reality is the pandemic has just highlighted a core element of our human nature. The thinking that the “grass is always greener on the other side” and the discontentment that pesters our everyday thinking. After all, how could we POSSIBLY be discontent after spending hours scrolling everyone else’s “best life” on social media

I talk about a few things we can do together to appreciate what we have in a deeper way, because we just don’t know what’s going to happen next. I hope it gives you and your team some new-found perspective and CLARITY.

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Are you done with election season yet? I mean, it’s usually pretty sporty, but this year is in a league of its own. The venom, the volume, and soon to be rendered…the VOTE! I’m blessed to work with brilliant, talented, and kind people who will most certainly vote for different candidates come November 3rd…AND I LOVE IT!

Since navigating the social/political environment at work can get tricky at times, I thought I would give you a few quick points to help us not only survive, but THRIVE during election season.

I simply don’t buy into what the media is constantly selling us. We do NOT have to hate one another. Actually, we can love, accept, and cultivate relationships with those who disagree.

Say it with me…disagreement isn’t evil. As a matter of fact, the ability to disagree with one another and still care for and serve one another is one of the greatest freedoms we have as Americans and humans.

So as the days tick ever-closer to Election Day, may your relationships with those around you grow deeper and more meaningful REGARDLESS of who they are voting for.

And if you are really having a hard time deciding who to vote for, you can always write me in. If elected, I’d be the first President with a weekly podcast :slightly_smiling_face:

CLARITY for President :us:

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It’s Fall time friends, and there’s just something about this season that motivates me to make meaningful change. In my career, there has been nothing more influential than the ability (or inability) to make meaningful change to the team that I surround myself with.

Over the course of the last two decades I have worked with countless teams. Mainly, teams on which I had significant say or influence over who was on them. Since I really care about people, the thought of choosing who gets to be on or off the team has been a combination of joy, stress, sadness, excitement, perseverance, and responsibility all rolled into one.

The right team will rocket morale and motivation to succeed. The wrong team will burn like an underground fire until your organization is consumed.

I know I’m not alone! Unfortunately, there are no magic bullets in choosing your team, but there are some guiding principles I’ve learned and deploy regularly which remain my “north star” during tough decisions. Like any guiding principle, they always serve us best when our emotions could easily hijack our reason.

I hope this episode helps you and anyone you share it with surround yourself with a winning team who brings you (and them) success and fulfillment in whatever you take on!

I’m grateful to be on YOUR TEAM,

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I don’t know about you, but dare I say the world is starting to feel a little more connected again. Not “zoom life” but in real life. Regardless of where you live, people are starting to “move about the cabin” more and that is leading to more connection on a human level.

This week I’m talking to those of you who run a business, freelance, or maybe are trying to find a new job or career. Basically, you are trying to convince someone to make a certain decision. Selling.

Although getting someone to say “yes” is important in the moment, I believe that connecting in a deeper, more lasting way leads to far more success, contentment, and builds significantly better relationships.

The best relationships become a part of who a person is, what they believe, and how they act which is why I use the metaphor of “religion.” I get into the nuances in this quick episode.

I hope the few minutes you spend here will give you massive ROI in perspective and action. May we walk forward doing much more than simply selling this week.

Pursue Clarity,

Paul

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If you know what the word “palmcorder” means, then you will have some idea of how long ago I “started” making content. In this week’s episode, I have the very first video camera I bought to start making content with and I try to shoot on it again (you’ll have to watch to see how THAT worked out)!

Getting right to the punchline; I started. I’m the type of person that likes to wait until all the finer points are in order before I start, and I’m constantly fighting with that deficient way of thinking.

The truth is, you can’t succeed until you fail.

You can’t fail until you start.

You can’t start until you decide.

Check out this shot I never would have made if I didn’t take it.

I hope this episode gives you the courage and nudge you need.

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I’m willing to bet that most of you would agree that throughout our journey in life and business, the impact and benefits of our relationships FAR exceed any financial investment, product knowledge, or strategy.

I received some serious clarity on this while filming an Instagram Story with NYT Bestseller and Storybrand, CEO Donald Miller back in February. (Remember when we could travel 🙂) I included the first few minutes of that Story in this episode.

If you consider all the good things that have happened in your life, you will be able to track them back through some series of relationships you invested in at some point. It’s easy to forget them. It’s easy to think we just happened to get here by our own intelligence and hard work. However, if we drill down just a little deeper to grasp the real ROI that investing in relationships has given us, we’ll gain some important clarity and motivation to double down on relationships in a world that tries to keep us separate.

Thank you for being a valuable relationship to me…I’m doing my best to give you a return on your time 🙂

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I didn’t take a lot of math courses in college, but one of the most memorable courses I took was a math course. Introduction to Statistics. I can’t remember a single calculation but I learned a VERY valuable lesson: Data doesn’t lie, but statisticians can pretty much make it say anything they want. This week, we are talking about measuring what matters.

In business, numerical measurements serve as good guide posts. Things like revenue, profit, and marketshare are indicators but not the whole story. In our personal lives, however, numerical measurements typically do one of two things: inflate our ego, or tell us we aren’t good enough. Salaries, houses, likes, followers and the like aren’t any of the things that contribute to they type of measurements any of us really want.

My suggestion is that measuring our legacy matters. Not only in the macro, but also in the micro moments. What is the “wake” we leave behind with every interaction, every conversation, every post, and every comment?

I hope this episode helps us all get better about measuring what really matters in this world that highlights the frailty of data.

Pursue Clarity.

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It’s September…wait…what???? Yeah, we all feel the same way about the strangest collective summer we’ve ever had. But I hope that it wasn’t all lost for you. It certainly wasn’t for me. Sure, there was challenge after challenge. Exhaustion after exhaustion. However, even in the most challenging times, there can be good, solid innovation and growth.

This week I have a great conversation with Brian Kramer a student of leadership, innovation, General Manager of Germain Toyota in Naples, FL. Brian is someone I’ve been connected with on linkedIn but really got my attention with an article he wrote about the story of how the technology developed by the company Pixar was initially snubbed by old school Disney animators. A mistake that cost BILLIONS.

We talk about innovation, leadership, and what it is to pursue excellence in your work.

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did and I hope it gives you a little more perspective on where you are in your own journey.

Pursue Clarity.

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Can you imagine a kindergarten class where we allowed and even encouraged children to treat one another like we commonly observe today…and maybe even participate ourselves? If I try, I can imagine such a situation, and it’s all wrong.

Election seasons are always full of escalated emotions and extreme levels of venom and division that is always somehow justified by politicians, the media, and unfortunately one another. In this particular season, the nuclear reaction of COVID-19, racial tension, and economic shakeup have officially elevated the level of intensity to “Face Melter.”

On today’s episode, I share some experiences I’ve had in recent weeks which I hope will cause all of us to take a closer look at how and why we are treating those who have a different perspective the way we are. At the very least, I hope we can take a step closer to “kindergarten-kind.”

As the one and only Bob Goff (((((Link up @bobgoff)))) says, “Love difficult people, you’re one of them.”

Pursue Clarity.

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Congrats, you left Monday in the dust!

If you are like so many of us, Mondays often leave you staring face to face with a slew of problems. Some big, some small, but all of them requiring some sort of action to address it. Sometimes the problems are new, and sometimes it’s the same problem that keeps surfacing over and over again. Why is that?

I recently dug into the book “Upstream” by NYT Bestselling Author Dan Heath and a couple of the stories punched me right in the gut by addressing some of the reasons the systems I’ve designed might be the problem.

Just like in most of life, you can’t fix it until you realize there’s a problem. And also like many other times in life…the problem is us. But wait! That’s actually good news. If you are the problem then YOU have control over taking the first steps to fix it

May we continue to solve problems and not just the symptoms they produce…

Pursue Clarity.

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