Kenny Chapman explains why taking strategic pauses matters for growth. He uses computer restarts and weather changes as metaphors for how stepping back, updating yourself, and restarting can transform both your personal and professional life.
Foreign update, restart. Earlier this week, I was having issues with my computer. You ever have that happen? It's kind of running slow. You got too many things open, too many windows going on. Whatever's happening, whatever's happening. And so what do you do? You do what the experts tell you to do, and you go, hey, timeout. Let me stop what I'm doing. Let me go ahead, and I'm going to go down here to the little power button and I click it and there's an option, and that option is restart or update and restart. I want you to think about that in your life. I want you to think about that in your business, you know, so whether it's restarting your computer, whether it's restarting your life, you got to take that time out first. And I want you to think about it as a busy entrepreneur, as a busy leader, right? We get out here and we run and we gun and we do all these different types of things. Earlier this week, well, yesterday actually, the blue collar, we had a strategic deep dive day checking in on the first half of the year. Where we at? We're prepping for a killer acceleration workshop next week. Then we're running into the second half of the year. Where are we at? What do we need to take time out? What do we need to look at? Updating? Where do we need to restart? What does that look like? How does that show up? So today I'm in California for personal strategic vision day. This is where Kenny checks in and goes, you know, this crazy thing going on up in here. What can I learn now? Where do I stop and take time out? Where do I look at? What's the update I need? What's the upgrade that I might need? Where am I looking? You know, we got a storm heading in out here in Santa Monica, getting ready to roll in here, and that's going to create timeout for the sun to not be here. And it's going to create an update of bringing some needed moisture and different things in. And then we get the opportunity to play the game at a different level, right? So I want you to be mindful of this. I want you to think about this in your business, in your life and your relationships as busy people. Busy isn't the answer, my friends. You can busy yourself to death. You can busy yourself out of business, you can busy yourself right out of relationships for sure. But this is about you. It's about your growth. I want you to take time out, I want you to update, and it's time to restart until we talk. Have a better than fantastic day. See you soon. Cheers.
