Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goalagiving. This
Speaker 1: is the seven minute Leadership Podcast with your host Paul Fellovledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute leadership podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode four forty one and let's get right into
Speaker 2: it with a powerful quote. Six months from now, you'll
Speaker 2: either have six months of excuses or six months of progress.
Speaker 2: That's not just a quote, that's a mirror. That's a
Speaker 2: hard look in the face of time and ownership. Now
Speaker 2: take a second and think about what you've been planning
Speaker 2: to do as a leader. Maybe it's fixing your teams culture.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's improving communication with your upper management. Maybe it's
Speaker 2: finally writing that business plan, documenting your SOPs, or hiring
Speaker 2: that one position you keep putting off. Now ask yourself
Speaker 2: if I had started six months ago, where would I
Speaker 2: be right now? And let me just hit you with this.
Speaker 2: Leadership is not measured by intentions. It's measured by forward motion.
Speaker 2: This episode is about calling out the stall, the stall
Speaker 2: that happens in leadership when we wait for more time
Speaker 2: for things to settle down, for someone else to notice
Speaker 2: the problem. For a better moment or for the perfect plan.
Speaker 2: You don't need more time, you need more urgency. Here's
Speaker 2: how this breaks down in real life. Excuses are time traps.
Speaker 2: Every excuse sounds reasonable in the moment, we're short staffed,
Speaker 2: we're transitioning right now, we're just too busy. But six
Speaker 2: months later those excuses have stolen half a year of
Speaker 2: your leadership impact. Progress doesn't have to be perfect. We
Speaker 2: think making progress means launching something massive. It doesn't. Progress
Speaker 2: is a fifteen minute meeting that didn't exist yesterday. It's
Speaker 2: one policy rewritten, one conversation you've avoided. Progress is gritty,
Speaker 2: it's uncomfortable, but its movement. Time will pass no matter what.
Speaker 2: This is the part that gets most leaders. The clock
Speaker 2: is ticking, whether you're acting or not. Six months will
Speaker 2: go by, and the question is did you lead forward
Speaker 2: or did you manage excuses? And let me give you
Speaker 2: a visual picture two folders. One is labeled excuses and
Speaker 2: the other is labeled progress. Now, every day you either
Speaker 2: add a page to one or the other. By the
Speaker 2: end of six months, you've got a thick stack. Which
Speaker 2: folder are you you carrying around? Because here's the truth.
Speaker 2: Excuses way more they weigh on your confidence, your reputation,
Speaker 2: your team's trust in you. But progress, it builds momentum,
Speaker 2: it builds credibility. So what can you do starting today?
Speaker 2: Let me give you a quick three step challenge. Number one,
Speaker 2: pick one goal something you've been putting off. Doesn't have
Speaker 2: to be huge, it just has to matter. Step two,
Speaker 2: break it down. Six months equals roughly one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty days. If you worked on it for five minutes
Speaker 2: a day, that's fifteen hours of focused progress. You think
Speaker 2: you can't make a dent, you can build a whole
Speaker 2: new system with fifteen hours and track it honestly. At
Speaker 2: the end of each week, ask did I make progress
Speaker 2: or did I make excuses? That weekly reflection is your
Speaker 2: accountability anchor. So this isn't a motivational speech, it's leadership
Speaker 2: reset because six months from now you're going to show
Speaker 2: up somewhere, You're going to be in a meeting, making
Speaker 2: a decision, dealing with a crisis, and your past six
Speaker 2: months will either have prepared you or exposed you. I'm
Speaker 2: not here to tell you it's easy. I'm here to
Speaker 2: tell you it's possible. Six months, twenty six weeks, one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty opportunities to lead with purpose or one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty moments where you handed the wheel to comfort, fear,
Speaker 2: or procrastination. This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for listening.
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