Chad Silverstein says meaningful progress comes from the work we avoid. He describes a quarterly leadership ritual where teams leave the office every 90 days to work on the business, and recommends daily reflection through journaling or brief pauses to enable growth.
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EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System).
Every 90 days (quarterly).
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If you've been blessed to be in a team practice with Build to Lead, you know that these four words are something that you hear at the beginning of practice, throughout practice, and at the end of practice. Because typically you'll never find yourself slowing down to reflect on anything. Because we tend to rush through life so fast and things are coming at us so fast that we have to react really fast. And that's why the gifted practice is so special, because you get to work on yourself. And it's something people never do. Sometimes they go their whole lives and don't do that. At my company, we hired a company called eos. And EOS taught us how to run our company. It's a way to run the business from how we set our core values to the meetings we had. But what we would do every 90 days is we would leave the office as a leadership team and we'd go work on the business. And it was an incredible one full day of working on the business and not in the business. And just getting out of the office was a big deal because just being there didn't feel like you're working on the business. When you're in the day to day grind still, even just visually you can see things happening. But getting out of that environment and being able to work on the goals for the next 90 days to to review the things that we're doing for the year, to look back and measure how we did in the past 90 days working on the business. And it was just such a powerful discipline that we just got into this quarterly routine and so practice even more. So what could be more important than doing that for yourself? And so we would take the time, and we do take the time to practice and slow down and reflect on whatever it is that we're learning, thinking about, hearing, sharing, and this is something that you want to build into your disciplines and not just do it. If you're in a team practice, it's a hard thing to do. To make time, you have to invest and make it a priority. And if you don't, there's no way you're going to do it. There's just no way. And you have to be honest with yourself. But it is where a lot of the magic happens. One of my favorite quotes is that the real magic happens in the work that you are typically avoiding. It's true. Because if you actually take time to slow down, reflect and write and focus on something that you want, it's incredible what you can do and what you can create and something you'd never see if you didn't take the time to do that. And so there's real power in slowing down, reflecting. It's why we make it a discipline and practice to do so. So, and then share and then learn from other people. And again, if this is something that you don't get an opportunity to do in a group setting, you got to try to figure out how to do it on your own, or even if it's a few minutes a day to journal or just stop what you're doing to slow down and reflect on whatever it is you got going on and enjoy it. It's a gift. It's a real gift.
