Why the best team wins.

How do you build a block wall?
Bricks and morter.

Good morning,
The best team won on the weekend.

That's right, the Warriors beat the reigning NRL title holders Melbourne Storm, in very cold and wet conditions on Sunday.

Why did they win? Because they stuck to what was working for them and stopped doing anything that didn't.

When you have a game plan and parts of it are working and parts aren't. Why would you continue to keep doing things that aren't working and expect different results? That is a definition of insanity.

Flexibility, innovation and doing the right things are three qualities that enable you be to successful.
You can test something new, it doesnt work, tweak it, it does, keep doing that. Test something new, that works, tweak it etc, and then stick to things that are working. Once you are moving forward you can test, fail and tweak in the background instead of on the playing field on gameday.

This week, work on being being flexible (yes, yoga might help), study what you do so you can be innovative and have a terrific week.

BURST the bubble

Are you living in a bubble?

Todays MondayMotivator has probably reached you at your work bubble.

Which you got to in your car bubble, after leaving your home bubble. This evening you will most probably drive in your car bubble, to your gym bubble, or supermarket bubble, and then back to your home bubble.

Think about this for a minute. Thats a lot of bubbles. But your still, in a bubble.

Take a look around you and see who is there. If your in an office by yourself have a good look at your office.

Right. This is your work bubble. Do you like it? I'm grateful I do. But I do have to burst it sometimes and so I either go for a walk to the coffee shop up the road - my coffee shop bubble - or organise a meeting with someone.

Because you never know what is going to happen when you burst your bubble. I meet all sorts of interesting people walking up to, from and at the coffee shop. And at meetings I get inspired and come up with new ideas, or rehash old ones to make them better.

Opportunites will come when you burst your bubble. Walk instead of drive. Turn left instead of right. Make time to see your friends and clients.

Burst a bubble today and have terrific week.

Timothy Ferriss on Fast Company TV

I read Tim's book, The Four Hour Work Week, awhile ago and thought it was great.

Here he is being interviewed on Fast Company TV.

How do you rate yourself?

Are you tuned or highly tuned and performing at your best?

How many stars would you give yourself out of five?

Reading an article about shopping mall ratings makes me think about how many stars I would give myself.

If Westfield Albany got five stars and Lynnmall got two stars what was the difference between the two that made Albany the place to shop? It seems that Lynmall needs a 'spit and polish' and some money invested into it to get it back up to scratch. It wasn't performing at its full potential because of
these factors.

Is that you? Do you need a spit and polish, and are you investing any time and money into making sure you perform at your full potential?

In my image today you can see a 'tuned' MINI and a 'highly tuned' MINI. Which one would you like to be?

Today give yourself a rating out of five stars. Be totally honest, then work out what time, money or effort you need to invest to achieve your five star rating.

Have a terrific week. (I gave myself four stars!)