The BOSS Network Blog

I love bubbles. I bought a bubble machine once, for a photo shoot. I had loads of fun with it until it broke. I wanted to catch every single bubble that came out of the machine: big ones, small ones, some as big as my head--But there were just too many.  After a while, I got tired. Accomplishing tasks in our business, whether it is a 9 – 5er, our side-hustle or a self-owned-business, it can feel very similar to trying to pop all of the bubbles coming out of the bubble machine. There are too many, how big they will be can’t be pre-determined and there is no way of knowing when it will stop. This is analogous to our laundry list tasks, self-inflicted honey-do lists as well as unexpected fires that need to be extinguished. Covey describes our lives as having four quadrants . He indicates we should spend most of our time in quadrant 2. But, how many of us really do? The DOT-Tributors have gotten this down to a science. We have a system we affectionately call The Genius Zone ...

Have you ever noticed the closer you are to your dreams or goals the more scared you become? Fear of failing is crippling for many people.      Failure  was  one of my biggest fears. As 2012 comes to a close, I realized I've come  face to face with every single type of failure I used to worry about endlessly. My mind constructed the worst case scenario. With every failure I faced, it was never as bad as my imagination had depicted it. I realized there were two things paramount in every failure, mistake and downward spiral: my faith and tenacity. I don’t just fail and roll over. I go kicking and screaming. What does that mean? It means I fail  forward . If I keep getting back up after every fall, I feel like I haven’t  really  failed. I’ve made a mistake. And to err is human.     My dad says throughout the course of life everything that happens, good or bad, has consequences. My job is to learn from every scenario...