Improve Your Life, Improve Your Leadership with Julian Hayes II

Published: May 1, 2020, 9:40 a.m.

b'Julian Hayes II thought he wanted to be a doctor but left after one year of medical school to pursue an even bigger dream. Now he helps busy entrepreneurs and leaders create more energy and maximize their longevity and human performance without the guesswork by leveraging their genetics, technology, and systems-based thinking. His work has frequently appeared in publications such as Inc., Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Chief Learning Officer, SUCCESS, and many more. \\n\\nTo learn more about the difference between things that are complicated and complex, listen to https://lifeasleadership.com/035 (episode 35) with David Benjamin and David Komlos.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- Day one of being a leader will look way different than year five.\\n- The different inputs of your life (food, sleep, environment, etc.) will help determine what genes are turned \\u201con\\u201d or \\u201coff.\\u201d\\n- Think in systems, where every aspect can affect the other parts of your life. They are not separate areas.\\n- The human body is not complicated, but it is complex.\\n- Know the details of your health early on so you have a baseline for comparison in the future.\\n- Pause and reflect before making your decisions.\\n- Work on your mind. There is disinformation and distraction everywhere.\\n- Slow down to speed up.\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Do it for the intention, not the attention.\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Someone who focuses on possibilities, not the problems; someone who doesn\\u2019t let their circumstances affect their commitment; and someone who is agile but relentless.\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What if we did the opposite of what everyone else is doing?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Sit down with yourself for an hour and assess your work and your life.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d \\u201cWhy not?\\u201d because it puts you in the mindset of questioning the authority, leads to so many possibilities, and encourages you to question the norm.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttps://theartoffitnessandlife.com/\\n\\nContact:\\njulian@theartoffitnessandlife.com\\n\\nFind Julian on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/thejulianhayes (@thejulianhayes)\\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianhayesii/ (in/julianhayesii)'