It’s been said that we get the culture we deserve.
It’s as true in politics as it is in business as it is in home life.
We are building our culture every day. When we make decisions or don’t. When we cut corners or insist on doing it right. When we give up or press on.
And the thing is, you never build your culture in a vacuum. It will rub up against the outside world and pick up scratches and nicks. It will bleed into everything that it touches. And you don’t get to control how those things happen.
The one thing we can control is how deliberate we are about creating our culture; we can focus on creating a certain kind of culture.
That focus means changing. You. Your motivations. Your habits. What you will do and what you won’t do. When you’ll do it. How you’ll do it.
Why you’ll do it.
So take half an hour today and make your first decision. Make a list of your most important priorities. Rank them against each other and put them in order of importance. Be radically honest with yourself. Make sure to include things you know you need to change. Then do something to affect the top one. Keep at it until you can knock out the top three, then reevaluate.
I’ll offer one suggestion: make at least one of your top three priorities something that benefits someone else but not you. It doesn’t have to be huge but it should be meaningful.
