Walt, Author at Walt Hampton, J.D.

Focus On The Grass You’re Munching

by Walt | Jun 7, 2018 | Success | 0 Comments

Your focus is your power.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, your currency in the years ahead will be your ability to do deep work.

The problem (or “challenge,” as coaches like to say), is that most of us have way too many inputs, way too much competing for our time, way too much coming at us all at once. We spend our lives in a state of continuous partial attention. We’ve lost the ability to focus.

How can you reclaim your focus?

I’ve learned an important lesson from my neighbors. (Who are dairy cows.)

So what do you think? A bit of white tape?

Reclaim your power. It will transform your life. And your work. You’ll have a great looking pasture too.

getting wasted

by Walt | May 31, 2018 | Success | 1 Comment

There is a lost art. An essential art.

An art that unlocks the door to the deepest parts of ourselves.

It seems that “we have lost the habit of unprofitable pleasure,” writes the Carmelite mystic William McNamara. “We shall get nowhere, we shall never find life, life will escape us, unless we learn not to be always bustling about – unless we learn to be still, to let things happen around us, to wait, listen, receive, contemplate.”

We will never connect with the real treasure; we will never know the true value; we will never taste the bountiful goodness that surrounds us every moment our lives; unless we recover this lost art.

What do you think?

Will you give it a try?

about that dirty word

by Walt | May 24, 2018 | Success | 0 Comments

Lose 20 pounds in 20 days. Create a 7-figure business in 6 weeks. Write your best-selling book in a weekend.

The marketplace is rife with gurus peddling the quick fix. The fast solution. The easy way.

Sure there are reliable programs and systems. But most things of value aren’t amendable to quick fixes. Most things of value require a dirty four letter word.

Work.

“To be successful,” the great Les Brown teaches, “you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”

Show up with a servants heart. Do the work. Stay consistent.

And you will enjoy bounty beyond measure.

rare air and the low bar

by Walt | May 17, 2018 | Success | 1 Comment

Business isn’t complicated.

It’s about making promises; and keeping promises. It’s about relationships; creating, nurturing and sustaining relationships.

The bar is low.

Show up with a servant’s heart.

Do what you say.

Connect and communicate.

Success will be yours.

the cost of delight

by Walt | May 10, 2018 | Success | 0 Comments

Because we move at warp speed, we tend to overlook the power that we have to create magical experiences for other people.

The poet, Maya Angelou, says, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Whether it be with our clients, our customers, our patients or our loved ones, we can be the architects of extraordinary experiences, even in the midst of the ordinary. So long as we are mindful.

The marginal cost of creating delight is so low. And the return so high.

Be an architect of joy.