Comments on: Who Pushes You to Achieve More?

By: dario

dario — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:07:31 +0000

thanks for this post – so basic & obvious yet so elusive .. i’m now on the quest for my own personal pusher

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:31:22 +0000

I think that would be my friends. When I see them do better than be I have to strive that much harder.

By: Weekend Reading: My fav’s from this week: 2/19/10 | Heather Villa

Weekend Reading: My fav’s from this week: 2/19/10 | Heather Villa — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:46:14 +0000

[...] Who Pushes You to Achieve More? – The drill sergeant analogy in this is spot on. How much more productive would you be if someone was pushing you to your limits everyday? [...]

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:15:25 +0000

@Dave – I’m… so sorry to hear that. My sincere sympathies – and I speak from experience here. Twice. It… does get better, they tell me. I can’t say that’s been the case here (yet), but I’m hoping. HARD.

By: Dave Rowley

Dave Rowley — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:08:12 +0000

I get things done by attending toddler boot camp.

I get woken up at all hours of the night to change one or other of the drill sergeants diapers, or give them a bottle. Man, they’re always in my face, yelling and crying at me, and I’m always tired. But I get heaps more done then I used to in my pre-kids sleep-pampered life.

By: Mary E. Ulrich

Mary E. Ulrich — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:36:10 +0000

So James, when are we going to give us an audio sample of your music? The hard songs!

BTW: For those of you who have followed my goal of getting a coat rack in my son’s day program–it arrived yesterday! Woot Woot!

It took 6 months and a ridiculous amount of work. But you should have seen their smiles and pride as they took their coats off the floor and hung them on the hooks.

Sometimes our love for our children drives and motivates our actions. Their need pushes us to action-no matter the battle.

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” John Foster Dulles

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:00:08 +0000

@Tei – Hey, lookee!! I found someone who pushes me after all, you were right!

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:59:09 +0000

@JD – Reminds me of my guitar coach this week. He whipped out a score, set it down on the stand and said, “There you go – play that!”

“I can’t play that…” I peered closer and fumbled with my strings. “No way. That’s too hard.”

He stared at me for a second with a flat face, then started riffling through my sheet music collection. “That’s exactly what you said about THIS one last week.” He slapped a score on the stand. “And THIS one the week before. And THIS one. What about THIS one?”

I stared at the pages. “Yes, but…”

But he wasn’t done.

“Every single week I give you something new and you always say you can’t. Then we start to play and within 15 minutes you’ve gone through the whole song. So don’t tell me you can’t, because you can, and you do. Now stop putting so much energy into denying that you can do this, and play.”

Uh. Yessir.

And I did.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:31:34 +0000

J.D.:

That comment just hit me so right. That is an awesome life philosophy right there—kick it with help or kick it anyway! I’m going to print your comment and stick it on a wall here.

Also reminds me of a post I wrote recently about my friends at Creative Copy Challenge, who mix I-bet-you-can’t with I-know-you-can perfectly… (link below)
.-= Kelly´s last blog ..Recreate This! What Creative Copy Challenge Gets Right =-.

By: Heather Villa

Heather Villa — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:56:39 +0000

I’m a big self motivator, but there are always times when I could use that drill sergeant – especially on those rare days that I want to procrastinate.
.-= Heather Villa´s last blog ..“What should I do?” – New Series – Social Media Mindmeister =-.