Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week!
Culture – People want to do the right thing. Nobody wakes up naturally and thinks to themselves, “today I’m going to sleepwalk though work, then disappoint and betray my boss and coworkers.” I mean, unless they really hate their job, practically every normally adjusted human wakes up and wants to be a good person, contribute to their tribes, seek their desires, and be loved and appreciated. When we provide and create a positive culture that helps foster individual’s positive wants and needs, we’re setting ourselves and them both up for success. We want our people to wake up every morning (or afternoon 😊) hoping to do something meaningful and know that the place that they spend ¼ of their lives or more at is worthwhile. Everything we attempt to do is about making our places culturally electrified! Are there boring and redundant parts of this job? Of course, but it’s what we do outside of those parts of the job that define us. We have fun because we choose to have fun. We give people the opportunity to do the right thing and they will almost every time.
Leadership – The energy you bring. We’ve all be there when someone with a shitty attitude walks into a room and just sucks all the air out. They rub their face. They yawn. They poo poo other’s ideas. It’s all about why something won’t work, not why it will. We’ve all also been in the exact opposite situation when someone walks in the room with energy and a smile and just lights the place up. Sometimes you’re that person…either of them. Being aware of the energy you bring with you, wherever you go, is one of the most self-aware things you can do. Energy is majorly contagious and unfortunately, the person with the lowest energy usually wins. As in, a person with a negative attitude is more likely to bring a whole room to their level than someone positive. Why? Negativity is easier. It’s breed into us that being a negative asshole is normal. Honestly, it’s more common to say to someone, “this sucks”, than “this is awesome!” Most people don’t even realize they’re negative, but we all know negative people. Like flipping a switch though, you can BE AWARE and DECIDE to become positive. Being positive or negative is a CHOICE. Positivity attracts.
History – The Shack. History of The Shack – The Original Late Night Slice – Part 2 – The Early Days – Years 1 – 6 Unabridged. This is obviously a working title. The first couple years in the Shack we so full of learning and figuring things out. It’s crazy to think about, but some of those early systems and recipes are still the ones we use today! One of the things we nailed off the rip was to start documenting everything. We had a great deal of help in this category by a couple of legendary OG Piesans; Kevin and Lindsey mainly. Kevin would often call me in a panic at 2am with an emergency of very manageable magnitude. Something like, the power went out to one random piece of equipment. I’d have to explain to Kevin to check and see if it became unplugged…which was usually the problem. We also learned to document processes, step by step, so anyone could follow them. Like, Step 1, Unlock Door and Turn on Lights. It seems funny to think about now, but what we we’re doing was making these jobs easy to hand off so we could move on to do other things. See early on, we never had a problem letting go…probably to a fault, but as the old saying goes; “you gotta let go to grow.” More on this next week.
Motivation – “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future, while the learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” -Eric Hoffer
What I’m Reading or Watching – A Slice of the Pie by Nick Sarillo. I just started this book, number 9 in my 12 Books in 12 Months Challenge. I’m super optimistic about this book for a number of reasons. One, it’s about a guy who started one of the continually highest grossing (per unit) pizza shops in the country. Two, it’s recommended and forwarded by Bo Burlingham, the Editor at large of INC. Magazine and author of Small Giants, a book about making your company GREAT, not just BIG. If this goes the way I expect it to, we’ll probably do this as a book club here in the Fall or late Summer.
Baby Update – Week 28 – 12 weeks to go. William the 4th is the size of a head of cabbage and weighs about 2lbs. He is currently studying real estate investing and other various ways to provide for us when we’re old.
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Have a great week!
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