It's the little things...

Like sailing to pick up your coffee for 'staff meeting'.

You're looking at my boys Miki and Jurgens getting the latter dude's sailboat snugged into the visitors berth at the Williams Cafe on the waterfront in the great city of Hamilton after our 25 minute 'beat' (sailing upwind) from the south end of Hamilton bay to the north end where the sweet coffee dwells.

We were scheduled to meet yesterday to discuss our ongoing expansion plans for THE WELL and--since I'm not a guy who really loves meetings--we've figured out a way to do our meetings while doing something I love, which is sailing.

The idea is, if we're going to sail, I won't dread the meeting.

Naturally, I'm not THAT much of a freak about it (winter will eventually come and what of sailing then?) but the reason I'm mentioning it here is because there's a *trick* embedded in the strategy that I use on all fronts of my working life.

Here's tis...

You need to figure out what you're *good* at and do that, BUT, there are going to be things you're not good at that will still need doing so you need to learn your areas of weakness and figure out how to *manipulate* yourself into the situation where you have no choice but to do what's needed--ideally making that situation as pleasant and oriented to your areas of gifting as possible.

Trick yourself into self-discipline.

Go sailing.

(it builds great 'team togetherness' at the same time)

The more you do it, the more it becomes second nature.

So, go buy a sailboat, and get to that meeting on time kids...

(and send me a picture when you do)

T