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"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" Steve Jobs and the Whole Earth Catalog

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Sleep, I’m tore by your need when there is so much to be done, people to impact, visions to build, life to change and my dog Radley who likes to go running and start doing “his business” at 4am 😜. Sometimes God motivates us in mysterious ways. “They call us dreamers, but we’re the ones that don’t sleep” . . . . #allmade #poweringtheprint #ryonet #makeitbetter #stayhungrystayfoolish

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Late night jam session sending out the first copies of "Made To Make It" to the #screenprinting shops that helped make the book happen along with my team @ryonet - Book hits the site on the 27th of June. Big thanks to @printliberation for the #mtmi mark and book design and for awesome interviews from @forwardprinting @pirateninjaprintshop and @customink . . . . #poweringtheprint #ryonet #allmade #madetomakeit

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It's not a mistake, it's blogging material!

Hey Ryan,

Reading your post about pre-race mistakes reminds me of an article I read recently in Runner's World magazine. It's circa September 2010 (I like to read the back issues) but still holds true.

Be glad you didn't do #8!

- Lia Hollander

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Awesome workshop today at the NBM show!

Can you please share where to get the your "NBM COST PRICING MODEL" file?

Thanks

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Three things I learned when Koen and Brody joined us on our first trip to #haiti - Chase is an international game, teenage girls will tease blond hair boys in any language, and a loving heart knows no boundaries, race, gender, or status. The boys here and there still talk about each other after 6 months and ours ask if this is the trip they get to go back on. Help us @allmadeapparel #makeitbetter one t-shirt at a time! Link in bio.

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Feeling extremely fortunate as our @allmadeapparel Indiegogo campaign (http://igg.me/at/allmade) continues to gain traction. We're making a t-shirt that gives back to people and the planet but and I'm on fire about it because I've experience what it can do. Daniel came out of the slums of Haiti and was left outside an orphan care facility sick and hungry, out of room they were not going to be able to take him but one of the teenage boys went out, picked him up, and told the director that he will let Daniel sleep in his bed and give him half his food. We met him a week later, he was still shell shocked and just clung to Amanda falling asleep in here arms for hours. 4 months later I go back with our #allmade #screenprinting founders and see Daniel, he's a little livewire like our son Maddox, doing great, bossing kids around 3x his size. One day he will go to Pathways school, learn either sewing, diesel mechanics, or agriculture, one day maybe he'll be making #allmadeapparel or growing hemp in Haiti for our fabric, or keeping our diesel generators running. He'll not have to leave his son at a gate barely living on a prayer. This can happen x10000 if all we do is make something and #screenprinters chose to print on a shirt that gives back, so simple, so big! #makeitbetter #bringthefire (in Port-au-Prince, Haiti)

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The ultimate resource is human emotion and emotion is created by motion. @tonyrobbins

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I got the edge, now I will be UNSHAKABLE

I went to a Tony Robbins event last night, amazing! He challenged us to write a letter to ourselves that night and send it to him, he said he reads every one, so hear goes!

Tony, 8 years ago I listened the book Get The Edge, my take aways changed my life and I have you to thank for that. My morning short run of gratitude before anything else seriously did change my life, but also finding my ideal relationship which I used in my company to help create our core values and now blooming culture. My marriage is stronger, my integrity has strengthened, my fortitude for stress and problems has grown tremendously, I come home earlier, travel more with my family, and our business has 5x’d to almost 50 million in revenues!

Today I realized that I am still get stuff in what you called a “suffering state” too much! It’s my angle, I let way too many things get to me to quickly, my anger is quick to come and quick to go but it is detrimental to my family and team because it’s sharp and can cut to the bone.

Strategies to avoid this suffering.

Measure it, every day, end of the day, did it happen, did it not, what was the outcome?10 = worst explosion ever and 1= a hot head and controlled burn privately.

Deep breath, put the reason into perspective, what does the thing that is upsetting me REALLY mean in the big picture.

Put both hands on heart and feel the energy flows to it. Motion changes emotion. Breath deep, give thanks, and come back to a beautiful state.

I am so grateful for my life, my 3 growing, beautiful and HEALTHY boys, my amazing and gorgeous wife (inside and out), and the opportunity I have in my business to change over 100,000 lives of my team members and screen printing customers which is now expanding to orphan prevention through living wage jobs in Haiti. Your motivation and strategies I learned today will make me UNSHAKABLE!!!!!

Thank you! Thank you! Keep chasing your mission and lets #makeitbetter

Check out Tony’s books referenced above: Get The Edge, UNSHAKABLE

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I never thought building a t-shirt would be as complex a #screenprinting but going behind the #screenprint has opened my eyes to a complex industry that impacts so many lives that grow, sew, and touch a t-shirt and even more so the world in which we do it in. It isn’t easy building @allmadeapparel from the ground up using #sustainablefabric like @repreve and #organiccotton sourced and produced in 🇺🇸 and then sewn in #haiti for #livingwage in partnership with @orphanproject which mission is not just #orphancare but #orphanprevention through education and #jobcreation - and though it isn’t easy we are so lucky to have 10 #screenprinters as #allmade founding members helping build a one of a kind t-shirt that not just makes an amazing print, but has a profound impact in the lives of the hands that touch it and world in which we live in. #madetomakeadifference (over 200 lives already impacted and we have just begun)

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22 years ago my Grandma Moor got a wild notion to take me, my brother Brandon and our older cousins Daniel and Steve on a summer long trip in a fifth wheel around the entire country. Not sure how she convinced my grandpa and how she put up with the four of us for 6+ weeks but she made it happen, and it was a blast. Every time I see her she talks to me about it with such joy and so today, as she prepares to leave us and this world behind I got the chance to read her a book from our trip that my brother Brandon put together. I had never read it before, he wrote a journal everyday and put it all together in this photo scrap book so nicely and creatively, her eyes sparkled as we looked through the pictures, read the words and I told my memories of a trip she made happen. So much learned today from the experience of being with someone as they say goodbye by reading something from someone who already has. Life is precious, and whether you leave here at 21 or almost 90, at some point, we do. So plan those crazy trips and take them, experience it but also take some time to write down what you saw, learned and felt with those around you. Don't forget to snap a few photo's along the way too so that one day you, or your brother or grandma or sons can remember or experience a glimpse of what you lived again. I'll miss you grandma, thank you for this and so much more!

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Traveling back from my second trip to #Haiti I can’t help to be so greatful for everything good in my life, my family @mandakoandbro and my team @ryonet have supported this venture unbelievably. We are starting @allmadeapparel from the ground up, with a core group of founding #screenprinting shops. Some people have already called it crazy! But that’s ok because this world is crazy and to #breakthecycle of how things have come to be both in what garments are made from and the places and people who make them, it will take some people that a crazy enough to know they can made a difference. The cause of creating something that can sustain our environment, create better lives for the families and children whom we live with on this planet, and build a better tomorrow for all of it, that’s worth fighting for! I couldn't have imaged a better why would ever exist in my life and a better group of people to help build it. #bringthefire #allmade

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Good morning world, I'd like to introduce you to a new project. It connects industry, people, children, nationality, printers, and the environment. It's All Made with fabric on a path towards sustainable fabrics that are #madeintheusa, it's All Made by makers in #Haiti who earn living wages that support on average, 8 family members and feeds economy back into their community and who's profits and future jobs support the @orphanproject And it's All Made with 12 founding #screenprinting shops that will take this garment and bring it to life with a print #poweringtheprint. This picture captures just a portion of what we have been a part of this week and says so much. @sandilakeclothing #madeinhaiti, beautifully hand crafted garments worn by Choila, one of the girls at a partner community outside of port au prince. Two people from different places connecting, smiling, laughing, & loving. #allmade @allmadeapparelu

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NBM Business Class

I’m excited to teach a full day business seminar at the PDX NBM show today with Brett Bowden from Printed Threads! Here is the link for the workbook exercises we will be using in the class today! Click here to access.

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Back in the day I used to throw punk shows all the time at grange halls and back yards, it's been way too long and it's time to rock again with with one of my favorite artists Mike Herrera! Mike will be recording a music video with a special ROQ Around the Shop rendition of Rock Around The Clock as well as a full set @ryonet on Friday October 14th! Doors open at 8pm - link to sign up here! http://go.screenprinting.com/roq-around-the-shop-event-10-14-2016 #poweringtheprint #mikeherrera #punkrock

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This guy @johnrzeznikggd inspired me to play music, which led me to #screenprinting which led me to @mandakoandbro who made my life! #luckyinlife and to see them again tonight #googoodolls #poweringtheprint (at The Festival Pier at Penn's Landing)

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Today we saw how #Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, pic top left illustrates some of the living in the city, literally 20’ of trash on the side of the road and that’s someone’s home behind it. But the Haitian people are amazing, strong, positive, and full of love. Places like @papillonenterprise and @goexapparel are providing living wage jobs in #screenprinting and craft goods not only to help care for the countries orphans through @orphanproject but to break the cycle of #povertyinc - amazing experienced, so blessed to have come and have an opportunity to help further those causes.

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It’s Your Ship

I’m a big fan of books that tell stories which teach lessons as well as being a fan of history, the military, and our great US of A country.  All of this wrapped the book It’s Your Ship by Captain Michael Morgan with a nice little bow surrounding a delicious bowl for the soul full of nuggets of wisdom. Through the chapters in the book Michael takes you through the lessons he learned in leadership through his Navy carrier. During his two year stint as captain of the USS Benfold he and the crew he led turned the ship from being one of the worst in the Navy into the best damn ship in the entire fleet. Throughout the chapters, he teaches lessons by telling the stories of how he learned those lessons, though I was never in the Navy, I could very much relate to many of these stories and thus the lessons gleaned from them.

Chapters: Take Command Lead By Example Listen Aggressively Create a Climate of Trust Look for Results, not Salutes Take Calculated Risks Build Up Your People Generate Unity Improve Your Peoples Quality of Life

These chapters pretty much follow the lessons in the book about leadership. Here are the lessons that I took which I would like to share with you.

On Empowerment and Trust - This is an area of which I frankly struggle in, first of all, I really like doing things and I think I’m pretty good at it. Second, someone else’s lack of understand of what is in my head is probably my biggest trigger for anger and …. since I don’t do a particularly good job of telling people what is in my head and I don’t often wish to try to explain it to them I end up wanting to do a lot of things myself. So this is overall the most I valuable lessons I gleaned from the book.

How I applied it? 1. When do I need to be consulted or jump in? “I chose my line in the sand. Whenever the consequences of a decision had the potential to kill or injure someone, waste tax-payers’ money, or damage the ship, I had to be consulted.” 

For me at Ryonet I did a few things; 1. On our weekly KPI dashboard I changed metrics that were within 10% from red to yellow and kept everything outside of 10% variance in red. If someone’s KPI was red and not trending yellow or green for longer than 2 weeks, I start getting involved. 2. When there is a material customer disappointment trends/major company losses/measured from Matrix KPI’s. 3. Legal material damage/risk 4. Major values conflicts thats not being addressed. 5. Major customer issues that are not being addressed.

How to avoid disappointment and create leadership accountability? Ask myself these questions and then ask these questions from my leadership team    1. Did I clearly articulate the goal?    2. Did I give enough time to accomplish it?    3. Does the person have the right amount of resources to accomplish?    4. Does the person have the know how or aptitude to accomplish?

When team members bring me ideas learn to ask what can you do about that or what are you going to do about that?

Listen aggressively; my attention is the utmost respect I can pay to someone.

Build Team/Unity ideas. 1. Send cards to spouses and parents in birthdays 2. Look for a family and spouse spokes person 3. Have young team members be admins to senior ones 4. Fun day 1x per month

Improvement; initiate and standardize having After Action Review’s, or AAR

Being your best all of the time. 1. Fake till you make it. 2. When you can’t fake it anymore, remove yourself from the situation.

Daily Journal Review 1. What happened today? 2. What will I do differently tomorrow?

Here is another great summation of It’s Your Ship that I found as well as some of the favorite quotes from the book.

“The timeless challenge in the real world is to help less-talented people transcend their limitations.”

“BET ON THE PEOPLE WHO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.”

“If your bosses see you lifting burdens off their shoulders, and they find out they can trust you, they stay out of your face. And that gives you the freedom you need to operate independently and improve your ship.”

“Leaders need to understand how profoundly they affect people, how their optimism and pessimism are equally infectious, how directly they set the tone and spirit of everyone around them.”

“Innovation and progress are achieved only by those who venture beyond standard operating procedure.”