- Never stop improving
- Learn the power of participative leadership
- Share better choices
- Have a position and support it
- Anticipate counterarguments
- Play the game differently
- Motivate yourself with competition
- Command the lectern
- Collect feedback on your current project
- If you don’t have a project, start one
- Shine under scrutiny
- Practice civility
- Isolate your problems
- Formulate workable solutions
- Speak to the heart, with logic, with authority
- Connect the audience with each other
- Create prior credibility
- Forget the “next big thing”
- Adapt your story to the listener
- Make buying less risky
- Create momentum
- Prepare dynamic meetings
- Speak to outside groups
- Value you
- Keep your edge
- Express your inner entrepreneur early
- Embrace problems creatively
- Pursue passion
- Face the fear
- Conquer hopelessness
- Make a small difference
- Determine your best time of day
- List a handful of goals
- Commit to a peak performance partner
- Journal
- Take a time out and get grounded
- Narrow your focus
- Take personal responsibility for everything
- Remember your “why”
- Outsource
- Ask questions
- Ask more questions
- Autograph your excellence
- Manifest several new ideas to keep the big idea going
- Perform twenty mental push ups
- Free your imagination
- Find enthusiastic support
- Don’t expect anything in return
- Remember all the basics apply
- Laugh a bit louder
- Be human
- Workout/Exercise
- Practice prepared cleverness and unprepared cleverness
- Keep being yourself
- Punctuate and pause
- Remain humble and teachable
- Delegate
- Create room at the top for other potential leaders
- Accept, overcome, and adapt
- Track time or find a way to make sleepless nights worth staying awake for
- Do a vice check
- Pump up the visuals
- Focus on what you have, not on what you’ve lost
- Keep moving – it’s harder to hit a moving target
- Take breaks to do some cost cutting
- Get ready to be wrong
- Try
Stay Positive & Now You Have A To-Do List For Life
(It’s long, I know. But so is life)
Garth E. Beyer
