Karl Sherrill

It's by Roger Seip.

It's called Train Your Brain for Success.

I've handed it out to a lot of people.

Roger spoke at a convention that I was at years ago.

It was a big eye convention in North Carolina.

And it was a little speech and probably most people in the room, I don't know if it impacted them or not, but it just stuck with me.

And it was years later before I went back to that book.

And in there, there's some chapters that really stuck with me.

The very first one that I grabbed hold of was about what are your values?

Have you sat down and done an exercise where you come up and look through and put seven words together that are the things that are the most important to you?

Have you done that exercise?

And I hadn't.

And so everybody could probably tell you what they value, but I had not sat down and spent time with that.

So I dedicated time to, let me go through the exercise of putting a bunch of words on paper

then narrowing them down and the neat thing about the way that exercise played out was you go through a lot of words he has like a hundred and some words on a page you go through the words then you cross off the ones that are similar and you narrow it down to where you get to whatever it is five six seven there's no magic number for me it was seven and then you go in and define yourself not the dictionary what does that word mean to you and you write that definition out and then you start looking at what are the things that I value and so for me it was faith joy influence

And a couple other great comments in there.

And so I went back and defined those.

And that set me on a path of, okay, well, if those are the seven things that I say are non-negotiable for me, let me look at what my calendar looks like every week.

So I countered that, and that was very eye-opening.

I wasn't feeding those things.