Linkorama: Are You All About "MORE"?

I just got my July newsletter from Dan Kennedy (go see this stud at www.dankennedy.com ) and he had some great insights into wanting "MORE". I am telling you...it doesn't matter what type of business you are in, whether you are an employee, business owner, bus boy, or bottle washer, you can apply the concepts from his opening excerpt.

[[ Note: If you are an athlete and consider yourself to be a SERIOUS athlete, then the concepts definitely apply to you and yours.]]

[[[Special Note: If you are a hockey official and you want MORE...more big games, more playoff runs, more championships to work, more t.v. games...this is DEFINITELY for you and yours]]]

From Dan Kennedy:

"At the SuperConference, Gene Simmons made the observation that he and pretty much all successful people are obsessed with the relentless pursuit of "More". This is why so much more invention, innovation, progress and wealth has been birthed here in the U.S. than anywhere else (up until lately) -- because, more than any other nation on earth, we have been all about the belief in the philosophy of 'more.' These days, there's a lot of foolish criticism of that, a lot of it from ridiculous hypocrites -- people who own five 15,000 square foot homes and commute between them by private jet telling you to shrink the size of your carbon footprint. Billionaires-turned-liberals late in life suggesting that your wealth is somehow at others' loss. There is also a rising chorus of voices selling us on a new mandate to accept 'less'. Obama has said we must give up the idea of keeping our homes at 72-degrees and live less comfortably, drive less, even eat less food...and, of course, keep less of the wealth we create. You want to ignore all of this b.s. and feel proud to be a pursuer of More.

The more 'More' you pursue and get, the more good you automatically do for others, and the more good you can deliberately do as well. So, to celebrate July, this Issue is about "GET MORE."

How to GET MORE of a lot of different things. I have written it immediately before jetting off to the U.K. for a week, to get more of the Brit's money and bring it back here. On that long flight, I'll be scheming about how to get more customers by more means with more speed when I get back. And it seems to me that the main reason more people don't get More is that they just aren't thinking about it, noodling it, being creative about it, working at it, and taking pride in it. Right now, a lot of people are actually voluntarily, shamefully shifting their thinking into reverse; instead of thinking about getting More, they've turned their thoughts to getting by with Less until "this recession blows over" -- as if it were a summer thunderstorm. It is not. It is a Transition to the New Economy, where there is more opportunity than ever. Different, but more."

Amen to the thought of GETTING MORE!

Full Extension and Full Recovery

Life and hockey are intermingled. You can learn about one to be better in the other.

From time to time I will link to other stories/blogs/interesting tidbits.

Today's link is to a newsletter I receive called "The NO B.S Newsletter" by Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy. Here is a link to a paragraph written by Dan Kennedy:

"Into every day a little rain...rushing past me, leaving the SuperConference, the managing partner of the Renegade Cattle Company, Gold+ Luxury Member Jill Wolforth said, "Hi. Gotta run. One of your cows died." There is nothing worse in the livestock business than the news the some of your livestock is no longer alive. And I wasn't even invited to the barbeque. But I'm very big on dealing with bad news straight up, without spoonful of sugar added. One of my favorite writers about entrepreneurship, Carter Henderson, makes the observation that business is about confronting an endless parade of problems...disappointments...people bearing bad news. If you're not up to that, you may very well need to exit stage left. RESILIENCY is the numero uno characteristic required: take a hit, re-focus fast, and get on with the fixing or firing or fleeing or forgetting or whatever other productive response may be possible. When I was talking with George Ross off-stage, he seconded what Apprentice winner Bill Rancic and runner-up Kristi Frank had already told me: the majority can't handle the PRESSURE TO PERFORM, especially when confronted with adversity. And superior education, superior intellect, superior talent all wash away and prove irrelevant if in possession of someone who can't handle the pressure. Every resource that can be marshaled should be marshaled, but ultimately achievement reflects character more than aptitude or advantage. Every time I'm at an event like the one held last month, and around leaders like Gene Simmons and George Ross, I come away with reinforced certainty that modeling behavior is the key of keys, and wondering whether most people are too obsessed with collecting tactics and techniques, too little focused on collecting behavioral characteristics."


How does this apply to officiating?

A. Refereeing is a lot like business in that you have to deal with disappointments, setbacks, road blocks, hurdles, assignors, politics, (d) all of the above...Do you have the wherewithall to handle this?

B. Whose behavior are you modelling? Anybody's???

C. Can you handle the PRESSURE TO PERFORM?

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