Chuck Blakeman

Author, speaker, and founder of the Crankset Group.



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Building a Business is Really Simple

Get out of the garage.


My friend Alan Wyngarden has done some adventure travel and says: “The hardest thing about climbing a mountain is just getting out of the garage.” Huh? Actually, it’s pure genius.

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The Conative Filter

Stop Thinking: Conation, not Cognition.


Conation is one of the 1,000 most obscure English words and yet the most important business word you’ve never heard. Want to know if you’re doing well and going where you want? Filter everything through the word conation:

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Committed Movement in a Purposeful Direction

Conation


We’ve all heard that extraordinary people are just ordinary people who have made extraordinary decisions. It think it’s even more simple than that. Extraordinary people are those who understand that Movement is the Master, and planning is just its humble servant with a small “s”.

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Planning won’t even get you a good plan, let alone success.

Stop thinking. Get moving.


Planning does not create success or even the best plan. It also doesn’t create action. Most planning just creates paper, spreadsheets, complexity, doubt, paralysis, and dream-dampening. There are two things that create a far better plan than planning itself.



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