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Path Over Plan – Carly Fiorina

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Path Over Plan - Carly Fiorina

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Path over Plan.

Hi, I’m Brian welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Coming to you live every day here from Grants Pass, Oregon. Here at the headquarters for BrianJPomo.com.

Today I wanted to talk about this concept of the path over the plan.

I first heard this termed in an interview with Carly Fiorina.

Carly ran for Senate in California as a politician. Was a business person, made into a politician. She also ran for president. Still a number of things like that. I’m not here to get into politics or talk about whether I like her or not. It’s irrelevant.

What I heard though, something that stopped me in my tracks and she talked about path over plan and said that a lot of times we get caught up with the plan and when it doesn’t go right, we forget where the next step is.

This comes back to the kind of the three big things that I think business owners get confused about and it has to do with what are we talking about right now?

Are we talking about tactics?

Are we talking about strategies or are we talking about principles?

One of the most common things you see is people getting caught up with the tactics.

So her getting caught up with YouTube or getting caught up with this new product. It’s that tactic.

It’s a temporarily exciting thing that we’re getting caught up in the action and the action really doesn’t have much meaning unless there’s a plan behind it, which is the strategy.

The strategy, should proceed the tactic. If you’ve got a strategy behind the tactic, the tactic means more.

It’s based off of something deeper, but there’s another level deeper than that is most of the time we don’t as business owners.

If we are strategy focused then we get too overly focused on strategy and we haven’t spent enough time thinking about the principles that should proceed the strategy, the principles of the deeper thing.

And so if you get too caught up with strategy……and this is coming from a business strategist, okay, my main areas and helping businesses to plan, hench, The Worthington Method that we’ve been discussing in previous videos, hits a lot of the concepts that I bring to you here have to do with their strategy base.

Because most companies do not have any sense in long-term strategy.

But that strategy has to be based on principles.

It has to be based on something that means something to you that is taking you somewhere important.

And those principals, they have to be true. If they’re not true, the whole thing falls apart.

The tactics fall apart and everything falls apart, if the principles aren’t true, If the real clear in destination isn’t true, if everything about that is not true, then it’s like a formula and the whole formula falls apart.

So here’s a couple pieces out of Carly’s book.

I haven’t read it, but the book is, Find Your Way.

So you can go and track that down. I haven’t gotten my hands on it yet, but this is where she actually has a section or a chapter on it and I found an excerpt and it’s called the path over the plan. And says that the dirty little secret of a destination mindset of living life on plan is that if it fails to deliver what it promises every time for people who adopt an on planned approach to life, there are only three outcomes, each devastating in its own way.

And then she outlines what those three outcomes.

These are the three things that you end up with when you have some type of long-term strategy you get there. But you can’t sustain it, or you get there but it can’t sustain you so it doesn’t fit.

It doesn’t fit with what you want or you never get there at all. Those are the three things that most often happen when it comes to our strategies, to our plans, and that should always take you back to the path.

In other words, the principles.

You’ve got to take yourself back to why are we doing this?

Starting with why, by Simon Sinek is also a great, great book and you could find speeches from him on YouTube. Just understanding the real why behind everything. The principles is what matters most.

The path proceeds the plan.

It’s more important.

You always have to have it in the background. You always have to go back to it when the plan doesn’t seem to be going right. Just a simple concept.

Once again, a lot more deeper, a lot more on principles, kind of broad based idea. Hopefully it’s helpful to you.

If you’d like to help with your business when it comes to either the principles, the strategies, or the tactics. I’d love to be able to talk with you it. Go to BrianJPombo.com and click on help me grow my business.

Now, if you are in the self-reliance field, go to DreamBizChat.com. At DreamBizChat.com you’ll see a video there. Go watch it. It’s quick. It’s only eight and a half minutes long and you don’t have to sign in forward or anything.

Just watch that.

If it makes sense to you, fill out the application.

I’d love to be able to talk with you in the future. Glad you came here today.

I’m here every day, come back again.

You can find the rest of the videos going all the way back to, let’s see….it was may of earlier this year, were well over 200 videos in for this first main section of BrianJPombo Live.

So go to BrianJPombo.com/Media and you can watch all the past videos and you can catch us on all your favorite social media. So have a great night. Get out there and let the magic happen.

Know What & When To Cut ✂️

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Know What & When To Cut ✂️

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Know What & When to Cut.

Hi I’m Brian Pomvo welcome back to Brian J. Pablo Live coming at you today from Grants Pass Oregon out here on my back porch out in the night. I apologize for my unshaven appearance. You see, it appears my shaving cream…….I thought it was only my second to last can of shaving cream that I had, but it turns out it was my last can of shaving cream.

I left in Morgantown, West Virginia, which I always end up leaving something when I traveled. But I thought I had another can somewhere at home. But since we’re moving everything, all the random things that are boxed up that you don’t know quite where they’re at.

Well that’s one of them, can shaving cream. So we’ll get it tomorrow. Get a brand new one tomorrow and get shaven, but neither here nor there.

You gotta know when to cut things short, what to cut and when to cut.

Because it never ceases to amaze me that things always end up having to be cut, that you’re always going to have more planned than you actually get done. It’s just a fact of life.

If you’re a doer, if you’re out doing stuff, you’re going to have more on your plate than you actually get accomplished because nothing happens in the amount of time you’ll want it to everything else.

And that’s just…..I think there’s a temptation to feel guilty about that.

But I think it’s important for you to know that we all go through it. If you’re an entrepreneur, if you’re a leader in your business, if you’re a leader of any sort, you’re going to have a lot on your plate and you’re never going to get everything accomplished.

You gotta know when to cut and where to cut.

Tonight is one of those nights. I’m not going to give you a laundry list of all the different things that had been going on in my life that make tonight tough to come up with something extremely useful for you. So this is just the concept of knowing when to cut.

And tonight I’m cutting this one short.

There’s going to be a nice quick video so it kind of falls in on itself in terms of being about what it’s being about. And, just go to DreamBizChat.com if you haven’t been there yet, if you have been there, go back, go check it out.

If you haven’t seen the video, make sure and watch it.

DreamBizChat.com the link is in the description tomorrow. Another enlightening thing, hopefully more enlightening even than tonight’s. And I’ll do my best to, to bring you a more shaven face. If not, it’ll be a little harrier. Have a good one.

You have a great night. Get out there and let the magic happen.

How Do You Focus?

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How Do You Focus?

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One thing. Just one thing.

How do you focus?

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo welcome back to the Orange Office in Grants Pass Oregon. It’s a lovely day today. I spent most of the day outside working on a new new adventure for me actually. You’ll be learning more about it next month at the beginning of October.

Here we are at the beginning of September. By the time the beginning of October comes around, we’re going to have a new office. We’re going to have a new adventure to talk about. So stay tuned for that.

Later on this week, I am going to be coming to you live from a whole nother state and none of the states that are near Oregon. It’s beyond that as for a little bit of a clue. And I’ll tell you more about that when we get there. So see if you can guess which state it is.

Today we’re talking about the second lesson that I learned from this book. The One Thing, the subtitle of this is the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results by Gary Keller.

Also with Jay Papasan. Jay, thank you very much. I saw that you saw one in the videos and I forgot to mention your name. I always remember to say Gary Keller’s name because it’s on the front, but Jay I’m sure was a huge, huge benefit to this, with his background and I have a feeling that his organization of this material made this book extremely enjoyable and very readable.

One that you could go back to over and over and over again because it focuses on principles that never go away. This is one of those books that I recommend any business owner read because it’s such hardcore principles and this is one of the main ones that the whole book comes to and it regards the focusing question.

This is in chapter 10, The Focusing Question. So much of the book is wrapped around this concept.

And if you can get just a piece of this, this is one thing I’ve gone back to over and over again ever since coming across it a year or two ago when I came across this question and it’s dynamically changed my business in my life and how I’m able to help other business owners at the same time. So listen to this, I’m gonna read this straight out of the book.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there’s no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

That’s a deep issue unto itself. If you haven’t realized that yet, if to get something uncommon, you’ve got to live in an uncommon way. If you haven’t gotten that yet, you’re either in the right place or you’re in the wrong place because you need to get that point.

The focusing question is that uncommon approach. In a world of no instructions, it becomes a simple formula for finding exceptional answers that lead to extraordinary results. Now here’s the question itself. I’ll see if you can wrap your mind around this. What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary? I’m going to say that again.

What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary and the concept behind this is is is there one thing that you can do that will make everything else you do either in that day or in your year or what have you, either easier or unnecessary.

Is there one answer? The idea of having a bunch of dominoes lined up in a row, you know how you align them all up and you push one, the others hit the other ones.

But what if each domino was a little bit bigger and you pushed over a big domino that hit a slightly smaller one in a slightly smaller walk slightly as well. It’s much more likely that all of them will be hit right, and that’s the visualization that they produce in this book. What’s the one thing you could be doing right now?

This is how you bring everything back into focus. This is how you determine what you should be doing every day. This is how you determine what you should bet, what your focus should be during the whole week or the whole month.

See it doesn’t matter whether it’s on the macro, the microcosm or the macrocosm, you know, it doesn’t matter whether you’re dealing with something very specific of what I should be doing right now or what, where my focus should be beyond, you know, in the next five, 10 years, like we were talking about yesterday.

If you don’t have a very clear idea about where you’re looking to go in the next five to 10 years, you’re going to have a tough time really seriously determining what you should be doing right now and that all these things, it’s not, it’s not rocket science.

Sometimes what you should be doing right now, it pops up out of nowhere. You get a phone call, something else, and all of a sudden your priorities change. But this is all about prioritizing. This is all about having a priority to begin with. It doesn’t mean that these things should take over your life.

You should still live in the moment, but you should always ask yourself, what’s the one thing that I could be doing right now such by doing it will make everything else either unnecessary or easier. That’s the focusing question that could possibly change your entire business life.

If you can wrap your mind around that and to find out more, go and get this book. I don’t get any, any, any kickback for this. Go and get the one thing. The audio version is really great.

The physical version is great to have on hand. If you’re going back and look and looking back at specific sections, there’s so many, so many great nuggets in there that I could take and ponder on or pass along to somebody like you today that is just priceless.

Hopefully that’s helpful to you. Tomorrow we’re gonna go over a third idea. Like I said, I don’t only have three ideas out of this that have made a big change for me, but I’m going to talk about a third one just within this series of videos. You go back and watch yesterday’s video come back tomorrow.

If this was interesting to you, I suggest going back and watching some of my other videos, listening to some of my other audios, if you’re hearing this on the podcast and see if you think that we get along.

See if you think that, “Hey this guy might actually know what he’s talking about and he’d be able to help me focus and get me going in the right direction.” Maybe take my business from where it’s at to really the ideal of where I know it can be.

If that sounds like you and you’re in the self reliance field, meaning you have, you have products or services that help people to become more self reliant and you’re a decision maker in your business, meaning you’re the business owner or you’re an executive in that, in that business, go to DreamBizChat.com you can click on the link in the description or you go straight there, DreamBizChat.com.

Just type it in and there’s a video, eight and a half minutes long. Watch it. It sounds like something that you would qualify for. Go and fill out the application and we’ll see if we can talk tomorrow.

Like I said, we’re going to deal with the third out of the three top ideas that I got out of the one thing and so we’ll see you then. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.