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■ Do something you thought impossible.
■ Experiment with some new time-management technique.
■ Check up on your own health.
■ Remove a chip from your shoulder.
■ Correct someone’s performance.
■ Disprove some stereotype about your race, creed, color, class,
state, or church.
■ Eliminate a self-defeating behavior.
■ Choose a perspective that is positive and constructive versus
destructive.
■ Think before you talk.
■ Be flexible, accommodate, but don’t compromise.
■ Be gutsy and take a risk.
■ Fight for your people.
■ Have a silent day (weekend task).
■ Manage your attitude.
■ Try something you’ve already tried, again.
■ Give credit elsewhere for some good work you’ve done.
■ Be theatrical.
■ Enhance some aspect of your technical expertise.
■ Give no B.S. today.
■ Sit and stand up correctly.
■ Pause at every entrance and exit.
■ Change part of your predominate style, as tested before.
■ Stand during a meeting.
■ Read a historical biography (Jefferson, Lincoln, etc.).
■ Read a business biography (Starbucks, etc.).
■ Read a self-help book.
■ Order Crane stationery cards.
■ Update your résumé.
■ Pay for some professional self-development out of your own pocket.
■ Write a letter to the editor of your local paper.
■ Write an op-ed piece.
■ Go out of your way for someone who “can’t help you.”
■ Find your “alls.”
■ Take your subordinate(s) to lunch.