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Hi Reader, Welcome to the “To Getting It Done” Tools Newsletter, April 2024. I hope you are doing well and getting successful results. I recommend you try different tools until you find one that works for you. You can accomplish anything with the right tool. Finding the right tool will help you: 1) Achieve a successful result, 2) Get a little better each day, or 3) To getting it done! If there is a specific tool you’d like to see, please call or email me, and I’ll find something to help you achieve a successful result. Share these tools with others needing them to achieve a result or goal, solve a problem, or complete a project or task. Keep aiming, actioning, adjusting, and achieving. You have been successful before, and you can do it again! To getting it done! Vr Mike Mini-Blog Tool You Can UseBLUF: Do you want to know a secret to being successful? Just care! “Just care” is a tool you can combine with action that works every time you try to help someone or yourself, start or complete a task, or get a little bit better today. I remember when I was stationed onboard my first submarine, USS MEMPHIS (SSN 691), homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. I was so proud to be there, worked very hard and was successful. I learned many things from my Shipmates, including taking action, discipline, and teamwork. Looking back, I’m reminded of one day when I was talking to an old Shipmate, who told me, “Yeo, just give a sh**!” Note: He called me Yeo because I was a Yeoman as an enlisted Sailor. When he said that, I realized that was something I always did, meaning that I always cared about why I was doing it, what I was doing, and whom I was doing it for. You will notice that I replaced the word “sh**” with “care.” This has stuck with me ever since, and whenever I’m not sure what to do next, I remember to just care and take action. You can apply this process to your thinking as well. Just care can apply to anything and can easily be a source of inspiration when you need a boost. How is that Captain Obvious? Well, here are a few examples: JUST CARE and take action when:
The list could go on forever, but you get the point. As you can see, just care is a mindset. Whenever you adopt the mindset of “just care,” what you need to do next will come to you and enable you to take action, produce the best possible product, or do your absolute best in any situation. Just care! Vr Mike To Getting It Done!
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