I was listening to rascal radio the other day, my friend Chris Brady was speaking about this topic kiss and make up. I was excited to listen as I love learning more and more about leadership development, personal resolve, and how to have better relationships in and out of the home. And as I was listening to the program I realized that Chris was not speaking of kissing and making up because you just got to fight but literally the rock band KISS and their makeup. Funny, right? I thought it was funny because I went into the material with one perspective and was quickly taught something I was not expecting to learn. Here are some of the nuggets that I extrapolated from the material as I was going through them. It is applicable to anything that you are doing whether in business, small group, when running your home. So here it is.
Humility and a willingness to serve was Gene Simmons’ key ingredient
- Get an identity and focus with every bit of intention you can too become all that you see yourself to be.
- Work hard on your identity and define it intentionally every day.
- Get yourself into a market of one and be the only one in your industry doing what you’re doing. “Stand Out from the Crowd” Or “Just Stand For Something BOLD”
- Have a great product and figure out a way you can sell it. That is a literal product, or just selling the idea of reading more to your children and helping them understand that great leaders are always great readers.
- Know your target market and build a following to attract them, hold them, and serve them greatly.
- Have the guts to swing for the fences
- Eliminate all distractions from your life as there will always be people who want your time, money, energy. And when you sacrifice a great thing for a good thing you will always be disappointed.
- Choose excellence no matter how much it costs.
- Deliver what you yourself would like to have as a consumer to your market.
- Be willing to appear foolish and get into conversations in order to make a big difference
- Be determined as determination is the key ingredient two pushing through the barriers that will inevitably come.
- Practice and perfect your craft.
- Be 100% about doing what it is you do.
- Be more creative in the service to others. (This is your impressionable brand)
- Stick to your guns even when you know you are right; especially when you know you are right.
- Be humble even when you make it.
- There’s nothing wrong with becoming an original character.