I have sat in rooms with people WHO ARE ahead of me and FOUND MYSELF SPENDING the coffee break on my phone. I have had a person's number for eighteen months and never used it. I have been in the room and not been in the room. The instinct when we feel stuck is to go buy a better room.. Sometimes that is right. But the research (not-AI, real research) says you can be handed the perfect room and still capture only half the available upside, because the second half was never about the room. It was about whether you turned to the person beside you and asked a real question.
That is a cheaper problem than the one I thought I had. It is also entirely mine to fix.
Now the second line. "We become what we think about" comes from Earl Nightingale's 1956 recording, which sold over a million copies. He offered no study - he offered a thirty-day test. And here is the honest version of why it works, which is less magical and more encouraging than the poster version: what you think about most is what you notice. What you notice is what you act on. What you act on, repeatedly, becomes the thing you are. Attention is not a wish. It is a filter, and the filter decides which opportunities are visible to you at all.
Which means the two lines are actually one line. Attention decides what you see. What you see decides who you approach. Who you approach decides what becomes possible.
Just a piece to my personal diary. #publish #ceo #entrepreneur #leader #travel
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