What Will I Accomplish Today?

What Will I Accomplish Today?

Forward-thinking individuals often ask themselves …

I wonder what it is I will accomplish today?

I do that every time I sit down to write a blog or produce a podcast.

My musician friends ask that at the beginning of every practice session.

CEOs, CFOs, and the top men and women in every company continue to ask this question – every day.

It’s one of the key growth habits, if you want to be a producer, a front-line leader.

Thoughts for Improving

Whatever Needs Improving!

P Michael Biggs

Steps and Skips Blogsite

Hope ~Encouragement~ Inspiration

Every Day We're Making Room for Your Talent

Every Day, We’re Making Room 

for Your Talent

Did you hear the news?  John Kennedy is dead. So is Mother Theresa, Tim Conway, Robin Williams, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Dave Brubeck, and a whole lot more of once-greats.

That just means that now, more than ever, there is room for your talent.  Openings become available with every death and departure from this earth. 

Of course, you can look at your field through these eyes, or you could, I suppose, look at it and say, “I’ll never make it.”

I happen to believe there is always room for you and your skill if you’re willing to keep at it, improve, study, practice, take classes and lessons, seek out mentors better than yourself.  

The big questions is – will you?  Will you keep working on your craft?  Will you set lofty goals and dreams so that when opportunity knocks you’ll be ready to step through the door? 

I hope so. 

Thoughts for Improving

Whatever Needs Improving!

P Michael Biggs

Steps and Skips Blogsite

Hope ~Encouragement~ Inspiration

The Greatest Growth and Improvement Secret

The Greatest Growth and Improvement Secret

Austin Kleon said this: “If you want to change your life, change what you pay attention to.” It’s from his book Keep Going.

The best of the best musicians do this.  In the secret of their practice rooms, they note the difficult passages, the tricky fingers, the stumbles and flubs and flaws in their delivery and they work on that one area.  They pay attention to what tricks them up. 

So do writers, artists, architects, speakers, teachers, thinkers.  They deal with the hard places, the difficult concepts and they master them.  I didn’t say “they agree with them”.  They understand the concept and they learn from it. 

What are you attempting to grow into?  In what skill are you seeking improvement.  Pay attention to it. 

Basketball players learn to master the free throw shot.  The pros pay attention to it.  They perform it in their sleep. 

We pay attention, and we just might get better at anything we attempt.

Thoughts for Improving

Whatever Needs Improving!

P Michael Biggs

Steps and Skips Blogsite

Hope ~Encouragement~ Inspiration

Dreams Don't Expire until You Do

Dreams Don’t Expire until You Do

Got dreams?  Are they the real, honest to goodness dreams you never stop dreaming? 

Good.  They never expire, go out of date, stop living.   We never stop thinking of them.

Sometimes we put dreams on th shelf for another day, and we often come back to them.  And remember, they have a long shelf-life.

My dream of being a writer has lasted thirty years, and today, I can say with confidence, I am a writer.  I’m not a nationally known writer, but I write every day. 

I can’t picture the day when I am not a writer.  And so, here goes.

Where do your dreams take you?

Thoughts for Improving

Whatever Needs Improving!

P Michael Biggs

Hope ~Encouragement~ Inspiration