You’re probably doing this one thing wrong — fixing it changes everything (really)

The every-kind-of-leadership superpower that comes from an unexpected place

What you’ll find below:

1. You’re probably doing this wrong — but it’s easy to fix
2. What I’m reading, what I’m watching
3. Teddy Roosevelt’s thoughts on today’s newsletter
4. A special deal for marketers, solopreneurs and other people who want to do a little less on social

Put yourself back into high school English class. What is one of the most important lessons you learn to make your writing stronger? Get rid of the adverbs they made you use in junior high, all those -ly words. And focus on the most important words in the sentence — the verbs.

Here’s the mistake we make — for so many reasons. We want a thing — an outcome, an identity — and we think of it as a noun. Anything that matters has to be a verb.

This past week, I spoke about the Polaris Principle (more on this later) at the Ikigai Summit in Seattle. If you are one of the lucky people who has been through Paths to Purpose (now Purpose Built) at The Grit Institute, you know that the real Japanese Ikigai is a part of our work (and that Ikigai is NOT the Venn diagram) Founder Sam Ushio is doing interesting work, and while we didn’t coordinate content in advance, it could not have been better aligned. His takeaway in the…