Lessons & Ideas

I had no idea what Kobe meant to so many. Over the last 48 hours I’ve been inspired, moved to tears and motivated by his life.

Here are 6 quotes that moved me the most:

1. "I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you."

2. “I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it."

3. "When you make a choice and say, 'Come hell or high water, I am going to be this,' then you should not be surprised when you are that. It should not be something that is intoxicating or out of character because you have seen this moment for so long that ... when that moment comes, of course it is here because it has been here the whole time, because it has been [in your mind] the whole time."

4. "I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury -- unless it's completely debilitating -- I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming."

5. "The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful." 

6. "I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses."

This podcast started on a whim as a fun little side project 8 months ago. And I’ve really enjoyed it and want to take it more seriously in 2020.

My new target is to consistently get 1,000 downloads per episode.

Here are 7 ideas I’m considering to get me there:

1. Publish 1+ /wk

2. Repost to social w/ video

3. Brand (name, theme, art)

4. Start SMS + email list

5. Standing first5 challenge

6. Tease next 5 episodes to big list quarterly (early access)

7. Tease next 2 @ in episode w/ adbarker

8. Topic

1 simple hack for better meetings

1. Make a ‘meeting notes’ gdoc

2. Link it in your bookmarks bar

3. Take notes durring the meeting in the doc

4. Include 4 bullet points for each meeting (Attendees, Agenda, Notes, Action Items)

Makes it easy to remember what you talked about and agreed to do months later.

Try it out!

8020curve.com

Story of our new Director of Marketing and how he 5x’d sales of our most important product in his first 3 weeks.

Great end of year review process from Tim Ferriss.

1. Get a notepad and create positive and negative column

2. Go thru calendar, pictures, orders from the year

3. For each week write down people, activities or commitments that triggered positive or negative emotions.

4. Filter to top 20% on each side

5. Do more of the positives in 2020 and create stop doing lost you review daily for the negatives

Original article: https://tim.blog/2018/12/28/past-year-review/

Me thinking out loud about a new potential project to take on in 2020. What do you think?

I just finished one of my all time favorite books...  

The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard  

Big Idea: 3 simple 1-min tasks to be a world class leader. They aren’t hard and don’t take much time.   

1. One Minute Goals

2. One Minute Praising

3. One Minute Redirect

Get my full notes and video overview here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pu4EVxsat0ZQrsWG4z-2AfgbZn-9j5qA9op_N_6MrME/edit#

2. our deal is live  w/ subject line reminder of deal

3. our deal is ending w/ subject line reminder of deal

4. Re-surface best deal of the year

5. Bundle multiple products together

6. put the deal in your subject line (for product aware segments)

Our 5-step high-ticket sales funnel