Perfect For Entertaining!

Yeah, but how good are you at entertaining.

I like keeping up with the real estate in my neighborhood. It’s fun to see what’s happening with the houses I drive past everyday.

In the listings there’s often an emphasis on how great the house is for entertaining and throwing parties. And it is. It’s a perfect set up…but while it’s perfect for entertaining, that doesn’t mean you know how to do much with it.

Because, you know what’s also perfect for entertaining? Stages. Stages are perfect for entertaining.

But it’s not about having the house or the stage that’s perfect for entertaining…it’s what you do with it that makes all the difference.

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Energizing Force

The only thing that happens everyday is the opportunity to do the work.

There are other energizing forces but they’re less reliable.

If the simple opportunity to do the work each day is enough to renew your energy to do the work, you’ll always have an energy source.

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Reach vs. Effective

We clamor to be aligned with people who have a big reach. People with lots of followers, lots of attention, lots of volume to their voice, lots of numbers in the metaphorical rolodex.

But reach doesn’t equate to effectiveness.

When we spend time with someone who is effective it resonates much deeper than any reach.

When there’s reach but no effectiveness it turns empty.

When there’s effectiveness we forget about reach.

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What To Do With The Extra

Our extra money. Our extra time. Our extra patience and effort.

Perhaps we need to back up a step, as it’s easy to feel maxed out…

The best way to have extra is to save it on purpose. To keep a little in the tank rather than spending it all right away just because we have it.

Don’t spend all the money you make each month.

Leave Tuesday mornings open for whatever might come up or come to mind.

Don’t give all your patience and effort to work, bring some of it home with you.

Extra is a luxury…but often not a luxury of wealth but of discipline and maturity.

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When You Hear A Good Idea...

Does it make you bummed out because you didn’t think of it, or because now that idea has been taken?

For most of us, when we hear a good idea we get inspired, motivated, and excited. We feel the electricity and it’s time to dig in.

So if good ideas have that kind of power, does it matter where they come from? What if it comes from AI? What if it comes from someone we don’t like? What if it comes from pain?

When the electricity is in the room, the room is better. When the room is better, the day is better. And better days give us a better life.

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When Will The Food Get Better?

I was talking to someone who works at one of the many new restaurants in Nashville. It’s a nice place, geared toward fine dining and charging a premium.

But after being open for a year, the restaurant quickly got a reputation for having mediocre food.

So I asked…when is the last time the food got better?

He said he didn’t know. All he could think of were some moves that were made to make the wholesale cost of the food cheaper for the restaurant.

I’d be surprised if it makes it through the summer.

Restaurants are known for being good or not that good. That’s the game.

They’re not known for getting better.

Most of us are not like a restaurant. Most of us can grow, change our reputation, make better stuff, and serve in a way that invites people back to the feast.

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