Predictability Personified!
By
Nick Ashton, CEO/Founder, Tracometry Group of Companies.
Every
single morning, I wake, stumble down the stairs, in the darkness, I switch on
the computer, turn the desk light on and grab the headset for the television,
so I do not wake the rest of the household.
Understand, my day starts around 3:45 a.m., whilst most of you are zoned
out and in the deepest part of your sleep.
Then, the
simple routine starts, I have pages on the Internet that I visit in order to
retrieve the news and thoughts of the day.
I suppose it is my humdrum, my rut in of life goes full circle.
This
morning, a colleague in Canada, I will call him Greg for security reasons, who
is part of GLIA, a group of great thoughtful thinkers, who are changing the
world, one beer at a time, eh, has some
interesting posts on Google+.
Today was
a glorious one as usual and gives me an idea…
It was an
article that talked about the ten commandments of the theatre, no, not those ten commandments, the ones with Mel Brooks,
these ten commandments…
Anyway, No.
7 caught my eye:
7. When in doubt, break the routine
It got my
attention! When we do the same thing,
the same way, every day, we are boring!
In business or our personal family life, repetitious rigmarole is boring… Even the dogs yawn and walk the other way.
People
expect the expected, if they ask you how you are, they expect you to say “fine thanks”, or “doing good.” Predictability
personified! It is the same in business,
we start on the phone the same way every time, and it is our comfort zone so to
speak. Our in person meetings we just plod along, it is a comfort zone that is stifling
your business.
We have to
break it up to add some spice and enthusiasm in our lives. By making that change in our daily pattern which
allows our mind to visit that fantasy land, smile and make that difference with
people. You, are not the boring individual that is most of society, who are
robotic in their daily routines. Break the
routine…
In fact,
yesterday at a meeting with a top city official, we talked on a very normal “three
guy’s” level, an important meeting regarding city issues that have to be
changed to make sure citizens are safe and communities do not fall into W.W.
V. It was human and unpretentious. Real
talk about real matters, that is
the difference.
Afterwards
we went across the street, my fellow cohort took me to the market place for
lunch, his favorite haunt, “Jumbo’s in the Market”, it has been
in business nearly forty years and has lunches that people come from everywhere
for.
The lady
who served us had worked there 33 years and did not look a day over
eighteen. I digress… I placed my order
for this dog with beef, they told me it is their signature dish, well not in a
dish, but in tinfoil and paper with a plastic knife and fork, that you carefully
use, as just a little pressure snaps the thing into deadly pieces.
Another
lady comes over and asks if we are together, I could not resist and had to
break the routine, I said “no, just holding hands.”
My colleague
took two steps away from me, the lady broke out in deep laughter and a fellow
customer made me an offer!
So when in
doubt, break the routine….
Oh, was the
Jumbo in the Market beef dog, which
is fresh beef in a hot-dog roll good? It
was excellent and they are located in the Market Place downtown Indianapolis.
So start
today in breaking the routine… it is well worth it!
It will
cost you nothing to open your mind and see what you are missing…
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