Results & Relationships

Who controls the data for your emotional choices? Know thyself is more urgent than ever! We're all emotional creatures – a great important part of our evolution. It's important to know that you're now surrounded by algorithms watching you and tweaking the environment around you constantly. For both great and scary effects. That's why it's more important than ever to know thyself, to understand wha...

This is Marketing worth the listen or read from so many angles This episode is a tribute to Seth Godin, and a recommendation of his book This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See IF you only read one book this year I recommend you make it this one before others. It applies to so much beyond marketing. Ric share's some of his thoughts on Seth Quotes My product is for people who be...

Brand, Reputation and DOING the work that matters. I know I here talk about how important DOING things is – to get real life feedback, to connect, to learn. Getting our ideas out of our heads to meet the world so we connect with our community, so we show up for those we seek to help. But it's even more important to embrace that it's not enough to just do better work. We must all of us also embrace...

Go around it. Dont wait for perfect - Its OK to go around the long way as long as you keep taking steps forward   Be kind to yourself. Dont wait for the perfect candidate, perfect opportunity or perfect idea.   Once you go around and obsticle and you make them pointless they're often happy to help you - making it appear you've walked in a straighter line that you have for an outsiders. dont compar...

Laser Focus What are you focusing on right now? So many of us imagine success as "having it all." While that may be true, the way to get there requires focus; giving up a lot of things, disappearing from the spotlight, and building that one thing that will be your contribution to the world--your legacy. The first step to achieving something is figuring out what you want in the first place. And the...

Strangled by your own convenience I know you love your comfort zone So do I. I go there to rest myself and I have to force myself out, into scary uncharted territory every time My Personal Trainer say most of us have trouble picking things up from the ground when we get old. Yet a few never have this problem Because most stop doing it when there is a tool, chair or something to assist with Those w...

How to be a person of Value Einstein said: Try not to be a person of success, Instead try to be a person of value.   So you have to ask yourself. What is VALUE those you serve? If don't value people, you will never ask yourself that question. How can I ADD value to those people? Another quote goes "Price is what you PAY, value is what you GET" Thus what your customers, friends, boss, relatives all...

I think we need to talk about YOUR status and it's urgent we embrace the world we're living in when it comes to status. Status   Status roles are at the core of who we are. They change how we spend our time, our money and most of all, our imaginations.   I think we're getting confused of what status really means with "status updates" on platforms making most of us think someone else is getting a v...

Ric's currently reading the books "Masks of Masculinity" by Lewis Howes which led to some great conversations when he was working together with David Marquet this week on making the invisible visible using data   Techinical info: this is also the first episode on the libsyn platform only, before now I've made 355 episodes using googles feedburner AND libsyn for 5 years. Most of my list wont migrat...

I'm grateful I got the chance to work with David Marque this week. I learned lot from him this week but have learned from him in so many ways like his Youtube Leadership Nudges, and also learned from people who learned from him so I felt a bit Stars-truck When we wasn't working we talked … Continue reading Self-identity and how that can blind us, in my case on arrogance →

Set things Right – whats better than right? it's easy to forget that what's right most often is a matter of worldview. Ensure to separate facts, observations and measurements from labels Both are needed to do better that lasts. We need to figure our own values, "our definition of right" before enrolling others towards change, … Continue reading Setting things right – whats better than right? →

Act as if – Do, measure, evaluate, experiment Failure, might not work as part of your identity, where it's easier to learn from failure. not fake it to you make it – where it's really hard to emotionally handle failure Most really successful people did not make ONE plan and that worked out most tried … Continue reading Act as if →

How well are you tending to yours? How aware are you that they're at the helm of everything you do, and everyone you meet. What do you expect to see on the other side of your effort? How often are you right? Dont expect anything to happen differently without you doing differently. Dont expect things … Continue reading Expectations are the fuel and engine of perceptions →

Its easy to forget when a decision is actually made. When we're stuck fighting the system of not embracing a YES fully, or not setting a clear and strong boundary, aka said NO to something when it mattered more, than when we're standing knee-deep into it. How can you help yourself trace back when a … Continue reading Decision traceback – delayed feedback and results, learn to embrace yes or no whe...

How do I know this is the idea to go all in for? I hear this from clients and people often, in different forms like: Please tell me THIS is the idea to go all in for Is this THE idea to go for? Please tell me I'm at the tipping point, that it will … Continue reading How do I know this is the idea to go all in for? →

Teach Dare to do things that might not work Don't wait for school or anyone else to teach those that matter to you the most important things like daring to do things that might not work, daring to do things that society doesn't understand. Daring to listen to yourself thru a dip, quit and give … Continue reading Teach Dare to do things that might not work →

Beware Fake Paths, illusionary progress and blockers Learn to listen to yourself, including when to, and when not to, others

Algoritms- why they matter so much to your relationships The chain of algoritms is woven around all you meet, all day long. Your reputation preceede you in all your first contacts There is no escape. Use it or get used by it.

Christmas is coming – talk to your people. We are all rusty and emotional during this holiday, be kind to yourself AND those around you. Start talking now, before tickets get [too] costly and while dates and items are easier to set and get.

What you are unaware of controls you Always work to become more aware. You can't work with stuff that you're not aware of. You can't know the great potential that lies within you or others if you're not exploring, and daring to be curious where others don't. Always A/B test what you think you know, … Continue reading What you are unaware of controls you →

Patience is something you can become better at. Its not a born thing that you either have or don't have. Patience matter now most urgently because all the easy jobs will be gone soon. Easy is replacable. Automatable. Easy jobs also makes you a commodity the instant you take it.   Sure, its scary leveling … Continue reading Patience – Race dont chase →

Meta talk about YOUR communication. Yes, I'm talking about your message earlier today. Are you seeing the effect you want when you say something?

Embrace failing AND keep taking action to learn what better looks like   If you find yourself failing often where you want to be in life and business. Allow yourself to take smaller steps and be kind to yourself when evaluating why   If you find yourself failing rarely where you want to be in … Continue reading Embrace failing AND keep taking action to learn what better looks like →