04/23/2026
Awareness of Your Goals.
"Whatsoever thou doest, thou finishest." Danzig.
"A man has only so many words in his lifetime. For us, there are very few left." -Ole Munch
1. 100% Rule.
If a circle is 100%, then ice cream cones with a bite out it, (or "spike" learned previously) is what you're going to get without the "double spike chaos of time" to restore the prolonged deficit of round. When you have a goal, the 100% is maintained. That means that you just sacrificed sleep or added more sleep. You sacrificed stress or added more stress. You sacrificed part of the circle. And, you gained part of the particular side of the business circles to achieve your goal... to 100%.
There is no need to give an example. A marathon anything means 26 miles in the community direction, in the operations direction, in the finance direction, in the family direction, in the schmoozing direction, in the marketing direction, in the exercising direction, and in the law direction.
In management, it is almost ALWAYS in the fun direction. You'll sacrifice anything to lose comradery in the workplace. That's why at each point in the people that you manage's career is what you work on. The group can be introduced to a "complete" new policy, because the more well-seasoned that they are, the more they know about getting things done efficiently. Sometimes, you just ignore the policy 100%.
2. Use of a Printed Photograph.
Car sales is a great example of printed photographs. I've seen the top sales rep in a large car lot not sit outside at all. He daily had the newspaper open, marketplace open, and craigslist open at the same time. He'd go through everyone looking to sell a car, and call them up. "When you sell your car, would you like to buy a new Mazda, Jeep, Subaru, or Ford?". Next to him was a frame with his wife's photo on it. It's $500 if you sell a car, $0 for the week if you don't.
I frequently put my profile photo on my login screen as people that you'd recognize. Kathy Ireland, Sofia Miacova, Emrata, and Halston Sage. On the front screen was a view from the yacht deck backwards. There's nothing I want more than luxury, and not doin' much. A sport fishing catamaran, Aquila 47ft Molokai or double size would be great. I'd gut it and have tons of space to make runs to Bimini.
There are only so many hours. People do things during the day too. Many sales can't be done in 1 call or day. Most sales can't be done on the phone.
When you're the manager, it doesn't matter what the policy is about a desk. If people bring in a photo for their desk, then that's what they do. I've had all sorts of adult people photographs on my viewable eyescan. It doesn't make a difference. I've built toilet paper roll tower roofs with full castle wall entrance on my cubicle. I've ridden big wheels around corporate offices for weeks. I've made employee of the month several times. That's why management and policy, are about effectiveness and not about enforcement.
You could make your own calendar by ordering it with things you like as the top photo when flipped. Come up with some strategies; people like vision boards. Too many photographs.
3. Morning Prayers.
Dan Pena always claimed that he did his list of morning prayers every day. He said if you can pray for 30 days straight, then you can pray forever. I believed him then; I don't believe him as much now. But, each decade of your life, you may understand yourself better.
He put his mantra strategy out where you can listen to yourself read your daily affirmations to an audio recorder and repeat them as necessary. He claims that athletes use it at night when they're sleeping. In reality, when watching a long-running event around a track, they get 1 shot. He says it prepares them better as they've seen it in their brains 100,000x before.
Pastors say they do similar. Something to be said about a Doctorate in Religion. They can lead 1000 people without a single salary in an area. Plus, they have to watch all their own actions on a daily basis, always know what time it is, and be busy managing schools, universities, retirement homes, radio stations, homeless shelters, etc. It is a volunteer operation, and their management skills are priceless.
My opinion is I have a choice not to participate. If I personally sit down, I'm a beast already from the beginning stages of sitting in a bookkeeping practice as a kid. Then, working through a whole bunch of apprenticeships, being responsible for 40/50 companies a month, education, world knowledge, visual business strategies abroad, VC jobs, VC clubs, assembly lines, military, volunteering, museums, events, supply chain, import/export, and more education in Law and Government than I'd like to know. Everybody loves to not make decisions, as they don't get paid any differently. So my goal in Prayer is sit on the beach. If it's 91, that's okay AM PM. If it's 81, that's okay all day. I Pray that I ... don't think about nothin'.
There is a famous painting of praying hands. George Müller said he had kids sit at an orphanage table all the time without even having things to cook for them. After praying, food just stop by all the time.
So it is historically written. Books are interesting from the author's perspective/motives. Different era, makes no difference. Remember, they've never even seen TV, so there's things that they have to do when they have to do them. His goal was to feed them kids. Other goals of others were to burn the books and writes some new ones.
4. The Disappearance of a god.
No matter how you look at it, when that reason to go to work happens, you retire. If your kid is 2.5, they'll never see that god again. So there are things in maturity that retire you from the public's view of you. Get you a goal or move. Just an added bonus.
Also, people have spent lifetimes at work. They buy stuff and move on. My experience comes from time. People get so aggravated watching me walk by during the day. Sometimes I do work at night. The more time, the more businesspeople I do stuff with. The more time, the more volunteering I do. I learn all sorts of stuff. Imagine those 10 years with now behind $3000 after working and still have bills. Imagine those 10 years of reality, in person, experience with no bills left over. People say, "He's a f**k around guy." Harder to do when married and living abroad.
PS - Don't forget, that when I was in Seminary for degree number 1. My professors had churches all their life. Built monsters of volunteer armies and salaries too.
