7 Simple Rules for Producing Remark-able Projects
by Michael Port
Remarkable projects can build your identity in the world because others are "able" to "remark" on your work. Unfortunately, you can't always determine what kind of results you're going to get on your projects. What you can do, however, is create circumstances which allow you and your team to navigate to a desired result. There are 7 simple rules for navigating to remark-able results on projects.
1. Bring Your Passion to The Project
Passion is a requisite for producing remarkable projects. You can't do a project that others are going to remark on if you don't engage your passion.
2. Work With Others
At the earliest possible moment you've got to bring people in as you are developing the project. If you work with others you will wind up with a project far greater than you could achieve alone. If this is a tough one ask yourself whether you are committed to having something truly great or just to having it your way.
3. Call on Your Talents
Projects are the ideal way to use your talents and natural gifts. Remarkable projects inevitably do that. It's your natural abilities that emerge in remarkable projects, not skill, which is learned.
4. Have Clear Intentions
Bring everything together; your gifts, your passions, the contributions of others, and make a BIG BOLD promise. If you have not made a promise, you may not have a project, just an idea and some work.
5. Be Sure Commitment Making and Fulfilling Becomes a Habit
Progress depends on the successful completion of promises. Create a routine that is appropriate for the project and that will have people coming together and making promises to each other. The work that I promise to complete today allows you to start your task tomorrow. The downfall of not doing this is one breakdown after another.
6. Tightly Couple Learning With Action
One of the things that keeps people from getting on with their projects is that they think they need to know something before they start, instead of learning in action. The future belongs to the learner not the learned.
7. Have a Compelling Story for Your Project Projects never go the way you expect they are going to go! Keeping your passion and your focus depends on telling and re-telling the story of your project, and why it matters to you and others. Story telling is a tool of leadership, and the way you engage others in your project. It's the way you maintain your mood when things go wrong. Being able to articulate and rearticulate the story of the project is essential.
Make sure to catch up with Michael Port at INPEX 2005 on Saturday June 11, 2005. Michael will be speaking in the Inventors University at 8 a.m. and will be in the Resource Center from 12-4PM.
Michael Port is the guy to call when you're tired of thinking small. He's the Leader of The Think Big Revolution and the author of the international best-selling audio program Book Yourself Solid and the intensive coaching program under the same name. He is also the creator of the Award Winning Superstar Website Home Study Course, and the co-founder of The Product Factory: 90 Days to a Signature Product or Program. He is a highly sought after professional speaker and his articles have been featured in magazines around the world. Michael invites you to join him in The Think Big Revolution by going to www.MichaelPort.com. You're guaranteed to think bigger about who you are and what you offer the world.
