5 Unique Lessons From Ally Love Whether You Adore Or Hate Peloton

I want to share with you the wise words I heard from Ally Love as she spoke at the Women of The Channel event in New York last week. 

I was speaking there on How To Unlock Your Next Company Moonshot and hosted a panel discussion on Putting Your Customers at The Heart of Your Company. 

Whether you love or hate Peloton and its bikes & treadmills, you will find Ally Love’s advice thought provokingly different…

• Wise Words from Ally Love: Tell yourself that you have just the right amount of work to do today. Ally never tells herself she has too much to do and I love this resetting of how you think about you what you need to achieve at the start of each day.

• Let go of perfectionism. For yourself and what you expect of others. While it might be commonly talked about your own perfectionism tendencies, consider where you might be holding others to standards that are unrealistic.

• Demand in negotiation what is unlikely to happen otherwise. Ally explained how she negotiated in her host contract with The Mets that if she is unable to host a game then a minority presenter must take her place. Having this in her contract guaranteed it had to happen vs. hoping or good intentions.

• Check yourself each morning. Ally asked all 800 attendees to consider how they were feeling on a scale of 1-10. She starts every day just the same way noting how she feels and decides just how she wants to feel by the end of the day. Not every day needs to be a perfect 10 and not being ok, or ending the day not ok is perfectly acceptable.

• Just pick one superpower and unleash it. I love the just one idea. Not two. Not a list. Just one thing that you uniquely do like no one else. If you don’t know what it is, ask others to help you see your own superpower. Then figure out how you can do that each day.

Yes. I’m a peloton fan and love taking Ally’s rides. I even got to meet her when I was last in New York 2 years ago and rode a live ride with her. But her wisdom goes beyond inspiring thousands of people on bikes…if you get to hear her live, you will see just why.

FINALLY… A reminder that my latest book launches in January. 

Words That Work: Communicate Your Purpose, Your Profits and Your Performance. Kogan Page

Never have our words mattered more than in the last 18months. How we lead, how we have shown those around us that we care, how we make sure that our intentions, purpose, and passion are all aligned. 

If you are buying in bulk for your team or company let me know so I can extend special offers to you. Or pre order your copy at your favorite local bookstore to support your local small business. Or you can preorder it online at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes & Noble, Target, Booktopia.au,  Waterstones, Amazon.ca

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

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Would You Like Me To Visit Your Company First To Share My New Book Launch?

I’ve just arrived in New York to speak to 850 technology leaders this week. Are you finding packing for business trips is harder? It took me twenty times longer to pack my suitcase and I forgot what landing but sitting on the tarmac for 45minutes with no gate felt like, but I am like a caged animal who just broke free. It feels so good to be back traveling again!

So I am ready if you are!! … for some more real life experiences. Strategy retreats, innovation labs, keynote talks, workshops, advisory work for executives, boards, and teams. Let me know if you want to talk. 

My January is nearly fully booked and the next few months after that are getting close so don’t be like my flight that was stuck behind all the other ones that got their first and jump to the front of the queue!

What’s it all about?

Words That Work: Communicate Your Purpose, Your Profits and Your Performance

Never have our words mattered more than in the last 18months. How we lead, how we have shown those around us that we care, how we make sure that our intentions, purpose, and passion are all aligned. 

As a CEO or senior executive, the stakes are extraordinary in every conversation. Millions or even billions of dollars are in jeopardy during board meetings, investor calls, media interviews, customer interactions, and employee conversations. The most successful executives know this and invest their time preparing in a thoughtful and intentional way while continuously improving their knowledge and skills in how to communicate to drive profitable growth.

Throughout this book we will pause and deconstruct words that work and words that do not work. I will give you a rapid list of alternative words to say in a multitude of situations. If you have an inattentive brain like mine, you can skip to the appendix where you can find the shortcut to the complete list of actual phrases and words that simply work.

If you are buying in bulk for your team or company let me know so I can extend special offers to you. Or pre order your copy at your favorite local bookstore to support your local small business. Or you can preorder it online at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes & Noble, Target, Booktopia.au,  Waterstones, Amazon.ca

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

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Why These Reminders Are So Important About The Value Of Quality Sleep

There is a teacher in England giving out beds to kids who don’t have one to sleep on because they are sleeping on the sofa, a chair or the floor. Bex Wilson, a teacher from Leeds, England, set up a charity four years ago to make sure kids had a bed to sleep on so they got a good nights rest allowing them to do better at school. You can read all about it here. It’s an incredible cause and addresses an issue not often spoken about.

Talking of sleep…

Up until 8 days ago, I’d been having the best quality sleep for 14 years. A new home, a new bed, black out shutters and new habits of going to bed early all helped my incredible new levels of sleep. Until Winston the puppy arrived and it all changed!!

I’m getting flashbacks of the newborn phase of my eldest daughter and my twin daughters and while Winston the puppy has slept through the night a couple of times, the early morning wake ups and the middle of the night whimpering to be let out of his crate to pee are messing with my delightful 8-hour a night sleep patterns!

Luckily the power of naps are new habits in our house and my Garmin watch tells me how restorative my sleep was each night so I can tell how what I eat (or drink!) or how much I exercise impacts my sleep.

You can complete your own sleep experiment with the one hour sleep test. Add one hour to your typical sleep time for seven days and pay attention to how you feel and what improvements you see to your productivity.

For more detailed sleep advice you can find it in my article How To Use Sleep to Increase Your Performance

Meanwhile, I’ll be going to bed early pending the Winston whining that we likely will be hearing for the next few days or weeks. Luckily he is learning fast and has brought a new level of joy, energy, and working together to look after him to the Wright House!

…before I go, did you see this commercial from Heathrow Airport when it first came out in 2016? ( errr you might need tissues if you watch it! 🥲 It is like it was made for this holiday season! It is simply adorable and captures the excitement I’m feeling about my mum and dad finally being able to come and visit us here in Los Angeles in December!

…also, if you want to pre order a copy of my new book Words That Work: Communicate Your Purpose, Your Profits and Your Performance you can do so at your favorite local bookstore to support your local small business. Or you can preorder it online at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes & Noble, Target, Booktopia.au, Waterstones, Amazon.ca
Let me know if you want to purchase multiple copies for your team, company, or event and I can let you know about special pricing and offers.

Until next week!

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

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