"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets...

"So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." Unknown

After another extraordinary year where I have learnt so much from so many talented people I still passionately believe that the answers to all the problems we face lie in developing learning organisations built on deep research, coaching, learning leadership, beautiful systems, intelligent accountability and the importance of discipline and character.

I have known this for years and I constantly wrestle with the fact that in so many of our learning places we haven't cracked it! We need to be brave, to take our chances and let it change our lives. I know that isn't easy but I was reading about the 80:20 rule and it made me think about how we might simplify and focus what we are doing to achieve brilliant outcomes. The 80:20 principle asserts that a minority of what you do usually leads to a majority of what you achieve. Looking at it another way, 80% of what you achieve in your life comes from 20% of the time you spend doing it.
80:20 thinking is:

• reflective;
• unconventional;
• strategic;
• ambitious;
• confident;
• focused on progress and outcomes.

Just think about it over the Summer... the rule suggests that if we focus on the magic; what works, what we achieve in one day of our working week delivers 4 days of our results. If we could capture what that magic day was all about and increase how often it happens our outcomes would go through the roof. 

Chris