JANUARY 2021

 

Business Tips:

TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System)

Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us.

~EOS, Level 10, and scorecard~

Get to know the Entrepreneurial Operating System through the books available to you.

Some great ones are:

What the heck is EOS?: A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS

Traction: Get A Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman

Get a Grip: How to Get Everything You Want from Your Entrepreneurial Business

And if you are leading anyone – How to be a great boss

 

Know what goes on in our weekly Level 10 meetings and know that you can always catch one of us to bring things up at the meeting.

 

If you didn’t know, we keep a scorecard in all of our business. YES, we keep score. If we are going to play, we play to win. We hope you are taking our core values to heart.

 

Personal Tips:

~ Faith, Living Forward and a life plan~

I find it nearly imperative to rely daily in trusting God for our needs. I know I am not in control and that the vision, direction, and steps that happen in the moment are to give Him the glory what we do and say. The Living Forward book that outlines creating a life plan is a big step for anyone.

IT IS SUCH A BIG STEP…….upon reading the book and preparing for your “life plan day” – I am giving you a paid day off (to our employees) to give us a report on how it happened, a few details of what you learned, and life accounts that you have discovered.

 

Life Skills:

What if you could develop these tools this year?

·        Critical thinking and creative thinking

·        Problem-solving and decision-making

·        Interpersonal skills and communication

·        Assertiveness, equanimity and self-control

·        Self-awareness and empathy

·        Resilience and coping with emotions and stress

 

Speed Reading – Reading more

Almost every reader has the habit of subvocalization, which essentially means that he says the words in his head while he reads them. This habit is known to significantly increase reading time.

Speed reading helps eliminate this tendency by allowing readers to skim through the text and comprehend it at faster reading speeds. According to an article on Forbes, an average adult reads at a speed of about 300 words per minute while speed readers clock in at 1500 words per minute.^[1]

Imagine all the time you could save while reading the paper, researching for reports, skimming through emails, and reading books.

Personally, I’m up at around 500 wpm right now. If you want to learn more about reading faster, you can also read this fantastic article on how to speed read: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/10-ways-increase-your-reading-speed.html

Notable quotes: They are italicized above.

What do you know about the Adamic Covenant? Why do we need to know about it? What good does it bring us?

Adamic Covenant. Found in Genesis 1:26-30 and 2:16-17, this covenant is general in nature. It included the command not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, pronounced a curse for sin, and spoke of a future provision for man's redemption (Genesis 3:15).

 

Something I want you to know:

Happy New Year. It was a record year in 2020.

Begin to invest and understand EOS, invest in a life plan, and learn to speed read.