Clarity Compressed with Paul J. Daly

Clarity Fam,

Aside from my Eagles losing a heartbreaker last week, it's been a really great week. Mainly due to the fact that I was disconnected.

I took my family on our first intentionally disconnected vacation in quite a while. I spent 6 days unplugging from my hectic regular life and making new connections with my family.

I talk about it and share some of the things I learned in this week's episode.

Disconnect to reconnect and get that clarity,

Paul

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Clarity Fam,

I do some of my best thinking on planes. Although I’m not built for commercial flight, (long legs, a head that wants to constantly fall forward when I fall asleep, and shoulders that constantly get bumped by the aisle walkers), it is a place where I tend to reconnect with myself.

This is probably the result of being strapped down for several hours, unable to bounce around talking to people and looking for the next great opportunity. But I welcome it.

Today, on a 4 hour flight from Syracuse to Dallas, I started thinking about how each era has a unique “enemy” of sorts.

I think I’m ready to name it for the 21st century. After you listen, let me know what you think!

Pursue Clarity,

Paul

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Clarity Fam,

I just spent 5 days at the largest gathering of Auto Dealers form across the country and in the world. I sat down with some executives for podcasts with my media company ASOTU. One conversation in particular was with an SVP with a publicly traded company. One statement he said still has me thinking 2 days later. 

I’ll share it with you in this episode. 

Pursue Clarity,

Paul

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Clarity Fam,

I'm about to embark on a 5 day journey with my company ASOTU to cover the largest show for Retail Auto Dealers, the NADA Show. 30k people will converge on Dallas to show and tell everything that is on the cusp of the future of automotive. But guess what...

There are millions of folks who are in the industry and won't get to go and I think it's the leader's job to bring as much back as possible. Merely going isn't enough to keep your people in the loop with you. A leader needs to provide a way for their people to experience and, most importantly, be able to contextualize what is happening in the industry.

This is what I call 'making the world smaller' and it applies to business leaders as much as it does to parents. I talk about it more in the episode.

And if you'd like to follow along for the next few days to see what the show I'm covering is all about, follow along here.

Pursue Clarity,

Paul

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Carity Fam,

As I’m rolling into the second half of the month it’s busier than ever, but I’m more focused than ever on doing meaningful things. And I better be!

Between my work with Congruent, ASOTU, and beyond there are more and more things that demand my time, contribute to my emotional state, and require me to focus.

Today I give some thoughts on why it can be good to remind yourself and your team about the bad times, and I also reveal why I never got that tattoo.

I hope it’s helpful or at least makes you smile.

Pursue Clarity,
Paul

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Clarity Fam,

I hope your first few steps into the new year were great ones! Today I’m going to read and react to a post made by the insidehistory Instagram account that dropped a perspective bomb right on my head.

In short, it tracked someone born in 1900 through all the wars, pandemics, conflicts, and crisis they would have experienced. It blew my mind.

Most pertinently, it reminded me that evaluating my current situation in a much broader context whenever I think things are ‘tough’.

I hope it brings you some great clarity as you march into 2023.

Pursue Clarity,

Paul

PS. I’ll be in Dallas (Go Birds) Texas for the NADA Show later in the month. If you’ll be there too, I hope we get to meet in person! Follow my company ASOTU on LinkedIn to get the full deets on the where’s and when’s of the week.

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Clarity Fam,

It's great to see you in 2023! There is so much great energy around the new year. A fresh start. A chance to cut ties with the challenges and mistakes and get moving on those things you really wanted to do, uninhibited by the baggage.

I've surely had mixed success with new year's resolutions so I've stopped making them, but I haven't stopped using the turn of the new year as a chance to boost meaningful change in my life.

Today I talk about shifting the paradigm of how we look at things in a way that helps us do the things we want to be doing. A mindset shift that might just work.

I get into it in the episode, but for now, make the decision with me to pursue more clarity in 2023 than ever before!

Paul

PS: Here is a link to the "Tonight Show" style event  me and the team at ASOTU put on in Nashville that I mentioned in the episode.

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Clarity Fam, 

I’m sitting in Nashville Tennessee preparing for a lifestream. We’ve been working on for months. My voice is just about gone, but I wanted to take a few minutes to share my thinks and my thoughts coming out of 2022 and heading into 2023 for so many of us in this community that is in pursuit of, we’ll you know, clarity. 

Thank you for being part of the journey this year. I’ll be taking the week between Christmas and New Year’s off and can’t wait to see all of your bright shining faces and just a week or so. 

Let me know what you think about the episode! 

Pursue Clarity,

Paul
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Clarity Fam,

Yes. It is more than ok to bring your kids to work with you. ESPECIALLY if you are traveling. This past week I had the privilege to speak to about 150 people in Princeton, NJ about the importance of their role serving people throughout the service lanes and I was able to bring my 11 year old daughter Elyse with me for the day.

It was a real grinder of a day that would make any road warrior proud. 4am wake up, flight, long Uber ride in traffic, setting up in a meeting room for livestreams, team meeting, etc. All of this to be in place for an evening dinner where I met their team for 30 mins, spoke for 15, and spent the rest of the night meeting and interviewing as many people as I could.

Another long ride, delayed flight, in bed by 1am. Yep, that was 21 hours and my little Elyse was a champ!

Sure she could have been learning some math equation, but instead she learned how to adapt, how to have conversations with leaders, and even have fun as a podcaster 🙂. Most of all, they will learn that they are important to you.

Yes it takes more planning.

Yes, it takes more money.

Yes, it is worth it.

Your future self will thank you.

Pursue Clarity,

Paul
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Clarity fam,

In 1997, the year I graduated high school, a book called "Don't sweat the small stuff" was released. And while I know the premise to not get bogged down in life with all the demanding details, I happen to think that giving more intentionality to the small stuff will yield you the best results long term.

Relationships, business, finances...all of it. The trick is to give thoughtful consideration on which small stuff to focus on. I'm still working on that and hope you'll join me on that journey.

Pursue Clarity,

Paul
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