Motivation Minute

Failing Forward (John Maxwell)

• The difference between average people and achievers is how they perceive and respond to failure
• Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head
• Failure is temporary. What makes the long-term difference is how quickly we bounce back

Guest: Vlad Russian

Instagram: @vladiator360

YouTube: Vladiator Vlogs and Russian Brothers Production

12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson)

Our Top 3 Rules

• Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world
• Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today
• Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)

Back of the Napkin (Dan Roam)

• Visual thinking enables you to focus on making the complex understandable
• Use the right tool for the question. e.g. for who/what a portrait, for when a timeline, etc.
• The SQVID model enables you to tailor a visual message to your audience

Guest: Ted Harro

• Founder of Noonday Ventures
• Twitter: @tedharro
• Getting the Math Right TED Talk - https://youtu.be/8X1CIP1pKyk

Four Seconds (Peter Bregman)

• Four seconds is all it takes to stop, assess the situation, and act strategically moving forward
• Taking a few moments to reevaluate expectations can improve dynamics around you
• In conflict resist the temptation to become defensive. Ask a clarifying question.

Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)

• The most common way we think irrationally is making relative vs. quantitative comparisons
• Free items give us an irrational sense of excitement, since there is no risk of a poor decision
• We tend to make the same irrational decisions repeatedly. Finding the pattern can help us break the trend.

Deep Work (Cal Newport)

• Pushing our cognitive abilities to the limit is a rare and valuable skill
• Frequently switching between deep and shallow tasks is more inefficient than it seems
• Choosing boredom over shallow entertainment can help gear you up for more productive work

The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham)

• Sell to optimists. Buy from pessimists.
• Popular stocks tend to be overvalued. Leaning towards more "boring" stocks can produce more long-term consistent gains
• Divide a portfolio between 90% defensive and 10% enterprising investments

Guest: Josh Collier

Made in America (Sam Walton)

• Lean teams stretch a long way, especially when leaders work roles at all levels of the chain
• Humility as a leader is key to keeping ahead of competition and building relationship with employees
• Sam Walton's simple growth strategy - one store at a time

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth (John Maxwell)

• Focus on growth over goals. Grow through life as opposed to just going through
• Feeling tension is an essential ingredient in the growth process
• You can't change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction

The End of Average (Todd Rose)

• When focused on average users, systems become stacked against everyone
• We all seek to be better than average, but average people don't exist
• We all walk the road less traveled. We should learn into learning at our pace, not anyone else's

Guest: Sam Howard (Owner of Desert View Window Washing)

https://www.desertviewwindowwashing.com/