Jim’s Gems
30 Thought Proviking Maxims
- The price for success is not negotiable, the price is the price.
- Personal energy management is about avoiding strife, comparison, jealousy and adding unlimited forgiveness and mercy.
- When we habitually blame someone else, we become a victim.
- Over commitment reduces the quality of your life and those around you.
- Failing to keep your promises reduces influence and lessens trust.
- Perfection blocks inspiration.
- Humility is considering other people as more important than yourself.
- Someone else’s drama is not your drama, do not buy into it.
- Careful steady effort with hope wins life’s battles.
- Focusing on today’s tasks without regard for the future increases the value of your day. Be in the present, it’s a present.
- If you tolerate bad behavior without dissent, you are signaling the offense is acceptable.
- Improve your revenue quickly with a customer contact point survey. Maximize all those points in favor of the customer.
- Frame your story before you tell it. Set the scene from the beginning, such as, “In my hometown, when I was 15 . . .”
- Teach your inner coach to be your best advocate.
- Ten business owners unanimously concluded: “Maintaining workplace morale includes reassigning or firing poor performers”.
- Encouragement is the jet fuel that starts a mind shift in others.
- Validate good ideas, question assumptions in yourself and others.
- Your good idea today will be a better idea tomorrow. Override your need to act today and be amazed at your new improved perspective.
- Doubt is your real enemy, replace it with action.
- Your mistakes are not catastrophic; play down the drama, play up the possibility.
- Your health is a privilege, not a right. Be intentional about your health practices.
- Giving people attention plus acknowledging their attributes will greatly improve your influence.
- On-boarding new leaders optimally is about creating synergy and defining expectations.
- Look at organizational development as an ecologist looks at the natural environment. Everything is connected to everything. Make changes after asking, “How will this affect . . .?”
- Criticism is painful to receive; however, ask yourself, “Is there a grain of truth in the assertions?” If so, admit fault and seek a remedy.
- Complaining can become a habit. When someone complains, teach them you will listen to the complaint as long as they bring a potential remedy with it.
- When you need to disagree with a person, disagree with their actions not them. For example, “Jim, your rude behavior to the customer wasn’t like you, what’s going on?”
- Money benefits such as salary, paid time off, health insurance, holidays, and bonuses are all spent off the job; money is not a motivator at work.
- The currency of appreciation and inclusion is what drives morale and production on a day to day basis.
- Perfectionism is about avoiding shame and punishment.
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