As many of you reading this may know, I coach. I coach individuals in a professional setting (such as corporate or in an organisation) and sports (primarily football).
The one thing I always mention is, gain the experience when you’re young. Go learn and do. Those with experience are the ones who’ll be better in life…
I was on LinkedIn the other day and up came a video. Unfortunately didn’t catch the name of the person talking but it was a great video and I managed to scroll back and take a screen shot.
The big takeaway and which forms my thought for this Friday is…
I speak to so many young people who are looking for a job. And I encourage them to give examples of what they’ve done, what they’ve worked with and what they’ve achieved already.
Experience is critical.
Build your resume/cv with experience. Then the jobs will flow.
Remember… skills pay the bills.
Today’s thought is from an accomplished football manager. And it’s something I learnt recently with my Under 13’s football team.
You see, we’d won like 10 games in a row.. and won them well. Unfortunately, we got to a stage that the team walked onto the pitch thinking we’ve got this and we can win easily. However, that’s not always the case.
We lost. And heavily. They destroyed us.
But you know what. We learnt so much from that one defeat. We learnt about our positioning, we learnt that we shouldn’t take particular risks when the opposition have certain qualities. Every team is different however, we shouldn’t become complacent.
I suppose, this is a life lesson. When you make a mistake, or when something doesn’t work out… you learn so much! And that is what makes you better.
Carlo says it very well…
We are always faced with so many choices.
Do you be… or do you go and do?
It’s a continuous loop of being, learning and understanding before you can go and do, share and be understood.
The Yin & Yang of Creativity…
I’ll share more in an up and coming blog post, but last week I was in Atlanta at a Leadership meeting. And at the meeting the boss put up a slide, and at the bottom of the slide he shared the books he recommends.
Personally – I loved that. Because, I always want to read new books which are recommended by intelligent people.
Which got me thinking… about smart people I know.
There’s a fair few of them. And then I began to notice a trend. A pattern, amongst them. They read books was number one. But they had much more in common…
To become smart… here’s what I found;
When was the last time you wanted to do something, but were scared?
We all are. To be honest, there are many time we just don’t do it due to a worry it may go wrong, it won’t be the correct way, etc…
We then either leave it, get someone else to do it or just keep thinking…
If you want to do something, should you? There could be factors that are preventing you, but once you know those factors….
We are often faced with difficult situations where we have to learn a new way of working, a new method or a new process.
We hear that AI is going to take over our jobs.
Who knows?! But what we do know is that we should continuously learn new skills. Might seem hard at first…
So recently, I was on holiday and took the opportunity to read a book.
The book I read this summer was called, Never split the difference.
It was a great ready! Thoroughly recommend it.
The reason why I like it so much was because Chris gave some wonderful examples, he shared stories of successes but also failures! (you don’t have many people do that.. and then finally, it really did teach me something about empathy!)
So today’s thought is… make sure you’re equipped with the skills needed to negotiate.
Yesterday, I was talking to my team member about some work we are doing and I made the comment.. ‘slowly but surely’.
Now, for those who know me, I love the old Brian Clough quote, “Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I wasn’t on that particular job”. That’s very much me… but then on the other hand, there’s only so much you can do with what you have control over. It’s all about control.
So today’s thought is centred around doing what you can do, little by little, with the control you do have.
What do you enjoy doing?
Watching football?
Playing games?
Eating food?
Whatever you enjoy doing… do it! (And there can be monetisable opportunities). But do it with some passion also. I’ll explore in another blog post of mine about a book I recently finished called, Tuesday’s with Morrie. Great book.
But for today’s Friday Thought… it’s from Gary V, and he puts it quite simply…
