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It’s Not Better Late Than Never

It’s Not Better Late Than Never

Garth Beyer

Show up early. Apply early. Get up early. Get there early. Send it early.

Sometimes you’ll get somewhere early and end up waiting.

Sometimes you’ll send the email early and not get a response until late.

More often than not, you’ll get a response, a connection, a reward for being early.

It’s been nearly three years since I wrote It PAYS To Be Early. Every experience I’ve had since then has reaffirmed my belief in there always being benefits to doing and showing up to things early. I’ve learned one more important thing.

The times I have been late… the trending result was the same as if I never showed up, never applied, never sent that email.

 

Stay Positive & Early Is Better Than Late And Never

The Quicker You Decide…

The Quicker You Decide…

Garth Beyer

Decide

the more time you will have.

The quicker you decide on a theme, the more time you will have to create article topics for it.

The quicker you decide on a name, the more time you will have to brand it.

The quicker you decide on a goal, the more time you have to work toward it.

And my personal favorite,

The quicker you decide, the more time you have to either roll in the success of the decision or the more time you will have to learn from the failure of it.

 

Stay Positive & What’s Taking You So Long?

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One Hour

One Hour

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That’s as long as a meeting needs to take.

Think of yourself as a QB. You have an end goal and you need to get there play-by-play. No point in thinking 10 plays from now because the game will change by then.

Huddle, break, make the play. Repeat.

A 2 hour meeting rarely produces 4 hours of effort. And an all-day meeting? Forget about it.

How boring would football be if they only made 3 plays a game. How boring would your art be if you only shipped something once a year. Let’s not even go into how boring meetings are to begin with…

 

Stay Positive & Let’s Not Be Boring

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Time

Garth Beyer

Maybe it’s not that a person doesn’t have time, it’s that you haven’t made something worth their time.

We all have 24 hours in a day. We can choose to search for people willing to give us their time to click on another page, to test out our product, to listen to our pitch…

or we can spend more of our time creating something people will willingly trade their own time for.

 

Stay Positive & Is Their Time As Valuable To You As Your Own?

Where You Start

Garth Beyer

What can you make from this chart?

Where you start

There are businesses, writers, artists that start when they still haven’t perfected their craft. They create crap art and develop sketchy business models. They write well but make countless grammatical and mechanical errors. But according to this chart, there’s no correlation of where you start in terms of a perfect craft to how successful you are down the line.

What about those who are perfect at their art when they start. What about those writers who practice in the shadows and refuse to come out until their novel is perfect? How about those businessmen and women who study model after model before they develop their “perfect” model. Is there any guarantee of success for them down the line? Nope.

Where you start doesn’t matter much down the line.* What matters is that you start.

 

Stay Positive & Go Start

*If you’re looking for a short-term investment or if you’re looking for a place to perfect your practice before you truly launch yourself, where you start matters very much.

 

 

 

The Bigger Picture

Garth Beyer

The Bigger Picture

I do a lot. I’m not bragging. Just stating the truth. Nor am I undermining others (you) or suggesting that no one does as much as me. In fact, it’s the opposite. It’s why I’m writing this.

If you sparked a conversation with me one year ago about how motivated people are these days, I would have been blunt, conceited and a bit disappointed in the answer I felt I had to give.

These days, I still see people not doing much. However (!) what I failed to notice before is people are simply doing a little for a long time.

One editorial board meeting for me lasts no more than 30 minutes and I’m on to the next thing on my agenda. For most, the editorial board meeting would last an hour or more. What get’s done aside, everyone is doing something.

On a similar note, people don’t do a larger variety of things (like me) because the hustle and attention it takes is exhausting. I can’t count on two hands how many times I’ve crashed. The result of having a packed schedule is wishing you had more time to relax.

That’s where I’ve realized the bigger picture comes in. The bigger picture isn’t how I do all that I do, but it does help me do all that I do.

My busy schedule doesn’t make me feel like I need more time to relax and do nothing because any time that I feel overwhelmed, I stop to think of the bigger picture; that this is only one meeting that I’m getting frustrated at over out of the entire year or that I’m lucky enough to go home in 20 minutes to someone who is damn need bouncing off the walls with excitement to see me or that not much was accomplished at this seminar, but there’s always next.

It’s beautiful when people stop their lives to just sit down and relax and view the bigger picture.

It’s even more beautiful when you can keep moving in your life and view the bigger picture.

 

Stay Positive & Sometimes A New Lens Helps

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