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How to create employees who feel overworked and overwhelm

That’s cool and you’ll get better and better at that with practise too but when there is opportunity to refine NOW your best gets better NOW. You are literally missing an opportunity to get better every time you fail to do this (I added that last line on my second run through this).

You don’t need to wait for your 100th book to produce something you’re proud of.

This ISN’T about perfection at all.

It’s about EXCELLENCE.

Which means taking a step towards more closely fulfilling your pre-defined criteria every time the opportunity arises.

An email is not just an email, a social media post not just a social media post, a book not just a book and a conversation not just a conversation.

Have you mastered the most Important Skill in Growing a business?

Without this skill stagnation is GUARANTEED

When you think about it, incompetence really just means a skill at which you are not yet competent.

Which is all of us at most things right?

If I put together a list of the things that I am competent at and those at which I am incompetent my incompetence list would dwarf my competence list in a very big way.

That’s normal of course, we can’t master everything like we can’t know everything.

How to build a business that owns YOU

Whether you’re building to sell or building for profit or BOTH suffering your way to success is a process that has a lot of victims. You SUFFER because when you’re living a life you loath you experience the EXACT life you didn’t want for yourself along with your health, energy, mood, and relationships all suffering.

Your loved ones suffer as they get the worse of you as they get the tail end of your energy, the worst of your mood, the guilt of your suffering for them and the least of your time. Even your colleagues and the business suffer as the energy, enthusiasm and inspiration required to both operate and sell a business can’t be faked for long.

ACTIONEd Ley11 January 2021business, leadership, leader, lead, coach, coaching, copenhagen, stress, struggle, overwhelm

Do it. Do it poorly. Do it wrong. But Do it

here is this really funny thing that happens when someone does their first triathlon.

They take their time to make sure they are well prepared.

They relentlessly practise their swimming, their cycling and running to the degree where they are MORE than competent at each.

Yet something quite unexpected happens.

Their recorded time is often DOUBLE what they expected.

The equation in their head during preparation was,

Swim + Cycle + run = triathlon

The reality, any hardened triathlete will tell you, is VERY different.

There are a million different ingredients that are hard to list even if you have experienced them.

Tasks so small as to seem irrelevant.

Like putting socks on with wet feet or trainers on to once wet now sweaty swollen feet to start the run.

LEARNINGEd Ley30 October 2020learning, neuro, neuroscience, coach, Ed Ley, coaching, business, performance, life, health, ceo, leader

What I love about a crisis or the 5 things we need now more than EVER

Okay, first and foremost I am not making light here. I’m not suggesting that I am happy about what has happened. Neither am I suggesting that no businesses have fallen victim to the current or future side effects or what’s happening at the moment.

However, there were 5 things that were important before this that have now significantly increased in importance and that I believe is a good thing.

In fact they were ALWAYS the most important things but now and going forward their consequences will result in more rapid and undesirable feedback.