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Another edition of quick notes to help you get more done in less time. . . next week.
In this issue:
- Techniques for FIT
- Being Human
- Random Stuff
- Article Link
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- Sit on a bench. In a park. For an hour. (You may need to build up to this one.)
- I just read that by the end of my life, I will have spent the equivalent of 2 days on Facebook. Just as I planned.
- When you work on strategic vision and the picture of your idealized future, make sure you account for discretionary time. Overworked isn't a desirable future state.
- Do you think anyone looks back on their life and says, "I wish I would have worried more?"
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Being Human - A Life, Well-Lived
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This week, my wife's grandmother passed away weeks before her 95th birthday. Adelina Escallon Larkin.
Over the years, I'd hear parts of her story and found it fascinating:
Born in Colombia (1920's), sent to Omaha for school (1930's), back to Colombia with Mike Larkin (1940's), back to Omaha with 5 kids (1950's), raising a family (1960's), grandchildren (1970's), widowed (1980's), great-grandchildren (1990's), funerals (2000's), assisted living (2010's).
On reflection, if I'm lucky enough to make it that long, I could represent my time on earth in this grid:
Each box is roughly a year and as I scribbled it out, some details were too rich to leave off. Smacked by a nun with a ruler in pre-school, my orange Datsun pickup truck, Laura and the kids, writing a bad novel. . .
The joke around the house as empty-nest approaches is that I'm working on the vision for Greg 3.0. It's not totally clear as to what that means, but I do have a new fly-rod, a backpack, and a truck at the ready, just in case.
What is clear is that work - the economic engine that will support Greg 3.0 and beyond - isn't driving the vision. It barely touches half of my eight areas of focus:
- emotions (understanding/controlling them)
- brains (keeping them fresh)
- spiritual (belief in a divine purpose)
- financial (having money for stuff)
- physical (maintaining health)
- support system (investing in family, friends)
- relationships/role models (accessing experience)
- understanding the hidden rules (navigating my groups)
And time spent working is probably not what I'll be thinking about when those final breaths are taken.
Rest in peace, Grandma Lina.
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Amazon
I may or may not have a little bit of an Amazon Prime problem. One click and one or two days away from, well, anything. Dog chews, five pound bags of organic quinoa, a library of used books . . . various car parts.
Click, pause, ding-dong goes the doorbell, look! Box for me!
I don't even think about it anymore.
Every once in a while, I pick the cheapest offer even though it's not Prime and I don't take notice of where it ships from. Or how long it might take to get here. Like the car key blank for that old Honda I bought for the kids.
I remember thinking, "I needed one of those," last week when the first one was delivered.
I may remember thinking, "Did I ever order one of those?" when the second one showed up a few days later.
But I definitely don't remember ordering the mangled package with the passport stamps that showed up yesterday.
Hmm. Time to take a little break from the internet.
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Adwords
Need to get started with Google Adwords or other pay-per-click campaign? This article that I wrote for Strictly Marketing Magazine gives you 5 tips get started.
5 Tips for Starting a Google Adwords Campaign by Greg Chambers
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May (still finishing) Booklet Release — Amalgamate: Summer 2016
May 17, CEO Breakfast — Humans In The Boardroom — invite only
Momentum Program Get on the list — worldwide
July 14, Teleseminar: Topic TBA
Very late 2016, Human's Guide Book Release — (still shopping the proposal)
Teleseminars — Access "Predictable Growth in Unpredictable Times" by clicking here
Access "Using Fit to Sell More to Existing Customers: A Case Study" — by clicking here
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