12 Life-Changing Leadership Habits You’ve Never Heard Of

12 Life-changing Leadership Habits You’ve Never Heard Of

1. Start meetings two minutes early.
-Selk time, John Wooden

2. Set a moratorium on text messages and phone calls outside of work hours (outside of emergency).
-Make it a prescription, not a suggestion and also live by example
-In order to be highly effective and also work reasonable hours, you have to apply some of the following habits/principles to accomplish this.

3. Go to GOAT Mountain when learning, spend 5 to 60 minutes a day studying the greats.
-Founders podcast
-Biographies: Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan The Life
-Wisdom of the Bullfrog by Admiral William McCraven
-The Amazon Way by Jeff Rossman
-The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh

4. Form a personal board directors of 3 to 5 people to tell you A) what you’re doing right, B) what you can improve, and C) teach you something new.
-Mentors, coaches, therapists, doctors, trusted friends and family members, spiritual advisors, personal trainers, etc.

5. Learn the best of performance psychology.
-Relentless Solution Focus
-Learned Excellence
-The Success Principles
-The Confident Mind

6. Collect and use the best mental models/principles.
-Mental Models by Peter Hollins
-The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
-Relentless Solution Focus by Jason Selk

7. Religiously practice the 80/20 Principle and Time Blocking: Block off the first 90 minutes of your day for your most important tasks only. If you were only allowed to work for 90 minutes today, what would you work on?
-The One Thing by Gary Keller

8. Apply Parkinson’s law to everything. How can I do this in half the time?
-Mental Models by Peter Hollins

9. Master the The Pygmalion effect: I believe in you
-The Pygmalion Effect by Dr. Robert Rosenthal tells us that our belief in a team member our child a student a player on a sports team has an actual of positive effect on their performance
-The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh

10. Get more physically confident through Brazilian jiu-jitsu and cardiovascular exercise.

11. Differences of opinion should not be conducted over text message or email. Grow up and pick up the phone or do it in person.

12. Never show your doubts and fears.
-You can have doubts and fears, but you can never show them. Work through them with your personal board of directors before you get in front of your people.
-Mentors, coaches, therapists, doctors, trusted friends and family members, spiritual advisors, personal trainers, etc.

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