Helping busy professionals create space through mindfulness, level-up their mindset & design a life with purpose.
Week 396 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. --- PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out. --- THE COLONEL SANDERS APPROACH: SMALL STEPS, BIG RESULTS “It's better to go slowly in the right direction than to go speeding off in the wrong direction." - Simon Sinek We read about these people on Wikipedia and we think, "Wow. What a glamorous life. Everything just worked out for them." But what we don't see is what these successful people were doing before they were successful. Unless we read the fine print, we miss the fact that Colonel Sanders was an insurance salesman for years and that he sold fried chicken on the side of the road during The Great Depression. We miss the fact that Sheryll Crow's first album was rejected by her label. We miss all the auditions where Steve Carell got looked over for a funnier guy. What, on the surface, appears to be an instant success, in reality, took years of small steps in the right direction. One of the biggest mistakes we can make is believing that we need to see "instant success" if we are to pursue our own dreams. But, oftentimes, success doesn't come until years later. Therefore, if you expect immediate success, and then don't get it, you'll likely give up too soon. And, if you give up, you'll never know what could have been. As workplace thought leader, Simon Sinek, says, "it's better to go slowly in the right direction than to go speeding off in the wrong direction." What did Steve Carell, Sheryl Crow, and Colonel Sanders do when they experienced years of uncertainty? They stayed, unwavering on their path, taking small steps towards their dream. They didn't close the book on their dreams and settle for a fallback career. So, what does this mean for us? This means we must first choose our direction, then take consistent small steps down that path. It's not the velocity towards our goals that matters. It's more important that we're heading the right way. Big dreams aren't accomplished overnight. Just like a sand castle is built with a million tiny grains of sand... our dreams are built by taking a million tiny steps over the course of years.
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Brendan Barca - Entrepreneur | Speaker | Blogger
Helping busy professionals create space through mindfulness, level-up their mindset & design a life with purpose.
Week 397 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. --- PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out. --- CHOOSE YOUR DIRECTION, NOT YOUR DESTINATION If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to get there? Recently, I grabbed coffee with a friend who...
Week 395 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. --- PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out. --- RETURN ON LUCK - WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE "Luck does not cause greatness. But return on luck is a gigantic swing variable. What will you do with the...
Week 394 (brendan@brendanbarca.com) Here's your weekly dose of Fuel Your Mind Friday where I share business building ideas, lifestyle design hacks, and inspirational content to help you thrive in your work and find purpose in your life. --- PSA: My wife, Pema Sherpa, and I have another blog called The Mindful Minute! Check it out. --- BUILDING A STRONG FOUNDATION THROUGH ELIMINATION We spend much of our life trying to optimize our present condition by adding more of the things we want into...