A short visual summary of our Readitfor.me interview with Chuck Blakeman

1. “Know with utter
clarity what you
want out of this
because he who aims
at nothing hits it
every time.”
Remarkable ideas from chuck blakeman

2. This Readitfor.me
Remarkable Business //
Remarkable Life interview is
with Chuck Blakeman. He’s
an Entrepreneur, Speaker,
Inc Magazine columnist and
the author of Making Money
is Killing Your Business and
Why Employees Are Always
a Bad Idea.

3. ? What are your top
three pieces of advice
for building a
remarkable business

4. Know your
big why. 1

5. Think of something big that
you want to do with your
business. It’s the most
important thing you can do
because he who aims at
nothing hits it every time.

6. You know you have your big
why when it affects and
impacts every decision you do
or that you make. It needs to
drive what we do.

7. You have to see with utter
clarity what it is you want out
of this and then be willing to
run toward it.

8. you need to play the
business owner’s
game. 2

9. The objective of the business
owner’s game is how do I make
more money in less time.

10. It is a simple game to play, as
there are only two questions.
The first question is, whatever
you are doing right now, driving,
holding a piece of paper, filling
out a contract…ask yourself is
this the highest and best use of
my time?

11. If this is not the highest and best
use of my time then how do I do
this for the last time?

12. Get outside
eyes. 3

13. The thing to remember here is that
everyone needs a place and or a
person to whom they can go and
say three magic words: I don’t
know.

14. It’s not practice that makes perfect,
it’s really good practice that makes
perfect. So, practicing the right
things, that’s what outside eyes will
do for us, it will get us doing the
right things. We still have to
practice but now it’s actually going
to get us somewhere.

15. ? what are your top
three pieces of advice
for leading a
remarkable life

16. 1 Know your
big why (again)

17. You’re 112 years old and you are
standing beside your casket and
you’re listening to your buddies
talk about you. What do you
want to hear them say? What do
you want to see behind you?
What’s the legacy you’ve wanted
to have left?

18. Your big why is a set of
goals you can never check
off as completed.

19. Your big why determines how
successful you are going to be.
Every decision in life should be
filtered through your long term
big why: will this get me where
I need to go?

20. What do you believe about
people, about work, about
humanity, about the
world around you. 2

21. Everybody believes something.
The problem is we’re all
involved in the random hope
strategy of life. I don’t run my
life on my beliefs. When it is
inconvenient I ignore my
beliefs.

22. If I do some action often enough
that determines my habits. If I do
these habits long enough that
becomes my character. My character
determines my destiny. Your beliefs
determine your destiny because
your beliefs determine your values,
your thoughts, your actions, your
habits and your character.

23. CONATE,
3 not velleity.

24. Conation is committed
movement in a purposeful
direction.

25. I have a purpose, I’m
committed to it, I know what
the next one thing is and I’m
doing it. If one of those four
things is missing you’re not
conating.

26. Velleity is the opposite of
conation. It is the desire and
the hope with no intention of
doing anything. It’s just wishful
thinking.

27. Learn more about
CHUCK BLAKEMAN:
chuckblakeman.com

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