(HCM) Human Capital Momentum

Uniquely Human

Uniquely Human

Transcribed from: http://www.earlmann.com

Remember it is your responsibility to expect this to be a great day!

Your past does not dictate who you can be, but the things you go through can dictate what you can become if you have the foresight and the fortitude to have an objective view of your life as a constantly refining event. 

One analogy I like to use often that I think people can relate to is that of a mouse on a treadmill.  If you imagine a mouse on a treadmill and that cheese out in front of him, and that mouse is just running away, running away, moving nowhere but just expending all of that energy.  For most people, if they do not have a purpose in life, if they do not have a direction in life, then what they are doing is pretty much very close to that.  They’re just burning a lot of energy.  Some people working easier than other, but most people hard though getting nowhere, going nowhere and getting agitated, stressed out, and sometimes even pissed off at things in general because of the fact that they’re just not moving anywhere.  A lot of it has to do with how they define their identity.  Let me give you another way to look at that. 

Let’s imagine our friend the mouse suddenly got a goal, a purpose in life, some place he was trying to go, and all of the sudden, he realized that running on the treadmill, if he viewed it the right way, was not something he did to get through the day, it was something he got out of the day.  It was something he used to increase his muscular strength.  It was something he used to increase his cardiovascular capability.  What if that mouse started to train as he ran on that treadmill?  What if that mouse started to talk to other people that had used the treadmill as a training device?  What if that mouse got stronger and stronger and stronger and over time that mouse was even pushing the limits of the treadmill and over time that mouse became strong, became stronger and one day, that mouse became so strong that he could just stop?  And the force from him taking that action could completely shatter the motor of that treadmill.  Wow!  Look out from that treadmill!  Look out into the world and declare I am not a rat! 

If you think about that story, working hard is not uniquely human.  Running away from pain is not uniquely human.  Most animals do that.  Fighting to keep something you love is not uniquely human.  Driving yourself to higher purpose is uniquely human.  Seeing a possible future and dedicating your activities now is a uniquely human event.  Dedicating yourself, sacrificing today for a better tomorrow is a uniquely human event.  Purposefully defining challenging moments of today as preparation for better times tomorrow is a uniquely human event. 

Now what I’m trying to tell you is that yes, you’re on a treadmill of some sort.  Yes, you’re in a challenge of some sort, but if you can do the uniquely human thing and define it as refining, then you can step off of that treadmill and declare unto the world that you are not a rat!

Creating your luck

Lucky Run

by earl mann

Transcribed from: http://www.earlmann.com/

You know, somewhere today, there’s a little woman that got up in the wee hours of the morning and dragged herself out of bed, although she wanted to stay in bed, and got her sweats on and her sneakers and went out into the early, cold morning and started to run.  She didn’t feel like running, but she went out there anyway.  She started to run and she ran down the street, and as she ran through her neighborhood, the discomfort of running slowly started to go away, and by the end of the run, she felt pretty good about it.  And later that day, the same woman when she got hungry and she walked into the cafeteria, she looked at all the foods that were available and she looked at some of the foods that she loved, she decided not to eat those foods, to not eat those foods that day because she was on a mission to transform her body, to lose some weight and get into shape.  She made the decision not to eat those foods, and over time, she started to pile these decisions onto each other, and every day, or every few days, she would get up and make this run and every day she would stick to this eating regimen. 

Fast forward into the future, somebody bumps into her that hadn’t seen her in a few months, and they look at her and they say, “Wow, look how great you look.  You’re fantastic!  You’re lucky to have genetics that keep you looking good as you get older.  You’re lucky that you feel like you did in high school.  You’re lucky because you don’t mind eating a certain way and you don’t mind working out.”  You know, the harder we work at things, the easier that they become.  It’s funny how people look at you in a snapshot and never look at all that it took for you to get to that snapshot, and assume that you’re living in that snapshot for some other reason than hard work, self discipline, good decision making and consistent commitment over time. 

You know, many of us, when we approach the things that we want in life, we need to be this woman, we need to be this person, we need to have the ability to do the things that are uncomfortable, to do the things that we should do and to do them for long enough until we get the results that we’re looking for.  So, this is your wakeup call, ding, ding, ding, this is your alarm clock going off in the wee hours of your morning, in the dawn of your goals.  And you can roll over in that nice, comfortable bed, do what is comfortable and convenient, or you can get out, walk outside, even if it’s in the rain, running down that rolling road because you know what’s at the end, a lucky day! 

Expect a great day!

an interview with greatness

It is easy for us to imagine having a job interview, or interviewing to be accepted into a school or social club.  What about greatness?  What would it be to interview for “Greatness” in your life?  What if that’s all it took; to get pass an interview with the gate keepers of Greatness. No special skill or connections, just an interview. I imagine it might go similar to this:

Sit down.  You’re late.  What took you so long?

Before you give me your resume, let me tell you what we’re interested in to save us both some time.

First of all, we’re not interested at all in where you come from.  Tell us about where you’re going, and make us know by your details that you’ve been there over and over and over again in your mind.

I don’t care about your degrees; tell me about your education.  What you’ve taken from this life that you can apply. And how will that effect your future.

  Tell me about your family, not the one you were born into, but the one that you’ve chosen, and now call friends.  And tell me why you added them to your family and what difference you make in thier world.

I don’t care how you look because; one ugly action can make me blind to the outside of you.

I don’t care how much money you have, tell me about how much value you can create.

Tell me about love, make me understand that concept.  Don’t tell me about your broken heart; tell me about your beating heart and the possibility that creates.

To fully achieve greatness is to have almost everything that you want, but it will cost you much of what you currently have. 

We’re only willing to make you two promises.  One, the path to Greatness will not be easy, nothing worth it is.  Anything worth obtaining is reserved for the few people that are willing to do what is necessary to obtain it.  But the second thing we offer you is this. Every one of us, and all that has gone before us, and every great thing that we have created, and every great thought that we ever had, will be put on the line for you. To guarantee to you one thing; that greatness will be worth it.

Now, let us begin.  Tell me, what is greatness to you?

The DNA of Success

DNA

Transcribed from: http://www.earlmann.com

Remember, it is your responsibility to expect this to be a great day!

Today we’re going to talk about DNA.  That thing that makes you who you are, that thing that makes you who you can become, that thing that is coded into the essence of you that determines what your capacity is, what your limits are, and that DNA is your decisions in action.  That’s what determines who you are, folks. 

If you do enough research and listen you listen to enough scientists on human potential, they will tell you that you are precisely where you are in life because of the decisions and actions that you’ve taken up to this point.  Understanding that is the key going forward.  If you are today the result of all the decisions and actions up to this point, then who you are tomorrow will be the result of all the decisions and actions you take between now and then.  So, folks understanding that, getting your hands around this DNA, getting your mind around this DNA are the key.  Every decision you make, every action you take is either in support of or against you achieving whatever you have determined as your own individual success.   

But understand this; if you have the winners DNA, everything changes.  Everything changes.  You look out into the world and you see allies instead of enemies.  You see keys instead of locks.  You see solutions instead of obstacles.  Folks, getting your mind around these decisions and actions makes your path to your individual goals that much clearer.  People with the winning DNA, they don’t request that the path to their success be easy.  They don’t even request that it be fair.  They just request that it be worth it because if they know that it’s worth it then they can do whatever is necessary to achieve it.  And folks, all that is necessary, the only thing that is necessary, is you understanding that the only thing between you now and you then, then being the place that you dream about, are all the decisions and actions that you can squeeze in between that time. 

Give yourself a DNA test.  Ask yourself, what are the decisions I am making and what are the actions I am taking?  Why am I making those decisions?  Why am I taking those actions?  Where are those decisions taking me?  Where are those actions taking me?  Are they taking me to a place that is worth it?  Because if they are, then we will all see you when you arrive because there is nothing on this planet that can stop you.  Expect a great day!