You keep your agreements with me, and I keep my agreement with you. Sounds so simple. It is, so let’s do more of it. Honor your word.
by Hunter Marckwardt
Sunday Thoughts Posts
If you can fail through effort, if you cannot take it too personally, if you can learn from the fail, you come back stronger, better, more knowledgeable, more confident, more refined, more developed, more experienced, more professional, more better.
General rejection is tolerable, personal rejection, from those you know, is harder.
There will be 2 camps in six months from now, those that got better and those that wish they had.
…we need to stumble, we need to be confused, we need to question, we need to feel that discomfort of “what the f”, in order to work through the issues.
Be aware consciously of your own highest values and stay true to them, regardless of the
cultural values around you
…you have to have a big picture appreciation of where your head is by asking those 8 questions. I do believe all the tactics in the world don’t matter if you don’t have an appreciation/thought for the “why” you’re doing them.
It’s never been easier to call a compadre and start the conversation with “are you slow”…and then 15-30 minutes later getting off that call w/ less energy than you started. As a salesperson, this is a really bad recipe for success.
Fresh emotions are great. I recognize none of Jack’s faults, only his strengths and what an absolute beautiful human he is. Jack’s my boy, so he’s always going to get my love, but if I could remind myself of this fact, for anyone I care about, it would serve me well i.e., focus on strengths, it’s all I want to remember for the people I care about when I’m gone, or they’re gone.
The point for me is to continue to hang around high quality, high caliber people who hold me accountable to be the best version of me.