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An author I met yesterday spoke about how dull his life is. Despite making enough money to feel as though he has earned a living writing, he still holds author events that zero people show up to and releases new books that barely sell anything. The funny part about him? He didn’t care. All he cared about was doing the writing. That brought him joy.

Another author I met is equally as successful in terms of having earned a living as an author but maintains a day job since she only creatively writes two hours in the morning each day. It was the duo of efforts that brought her joy.

Then I could go into the countless ways all the authors I met got published and to varying degrees of success.

That’s all to say that success can look like a lot of things, but none are as important as the version you want.

Once you know that, it’s far more likely you’ll end up in positions that “luck” is stepping into as well.

And all the sudden you’ve got success. The good kind. Your version.

Stay Positive & Gotta Know It To Chase It

The weight of all you want to do and accomplish today is a heavy one. Sometimes…oftentimes…it’s so heavy that it puts you in bed. Maybe so heavy that it has you hit the snooze button, too.

The trick is if you could just put on your shoes. Place them next to your bed. Toss your socks on top of them. Make it so insanely easy to put on your shoes that you simply can’t not. You can even tell yourself that you could still lay back down so long as you put your shoes on.

But you won’t do that. You’ll get up because you’ve started.

Starting, they say, is the hardest part. But it doesn’t have to be.

You can make starting easier if you just put on your shoes.

Stay Positive & Logic Applies To A Lot Of Scenarios, Doesn’t It?

There’s always something to fill the void with.

If nothing else, education.

What we do with our downtime is what separates us from our peers.

Stay Positive & The Time Is Yours

It means that everyone is living a complex and interesting life as your own.

Another way to look at it is that if you put the crap you’re dealing with in a pile and so did everyone else, you would probably take your own crap back instead of dealing with theirs.

And at the very root of it: we’re all not so different when it comes to core emotions.

Stay Positive & Pass Along The Slice Of Humble Pie?

Could it be anything but that when we’re on the path of growth?

Boiled down it’s merely that something isn’t something else until it is.

Feel it, sure. But don’t let it stop you from continuing.

Stay Positive & Onward

There’s something incredibly comforting about being directionally correct. Perhaps it’s a hiccup of reassurance, but nonetheless, it’s empowering for two reasons: one is that you get to keep the momentum going and two you can quickly and more easily pivot a bit if you need.

Here’s a great question to ask before ending your next meeting. Does everyone feel we’re at least in the right direction here?

Stay Positive & Grasp The Compass

It’s nearly a default setting that people will want more.

They’ll say you’re not present enough and you should show face more.

They’ll say you need more in savings before they’ll offer you the loan.

They’ll say you’re not trying hard enough.

It’s so easy to get sucked into trying to solve that for that person or group, but I warn you against it.

First: They’re the minority. If you can unstick yourself from the guilt of not being enough to the person calling you out, you’ll notice very quickly that there are many others who wouldn’t agree.

Second: Most who go into solve it don’t do it with their heart; they do it to check a box or because they feel they have to. (Not an contagiously inspiring source of energy there!)

Sometimes more is better, but rarely.

Stay Positive & Is What They Are Asking More For Actually What They Even Want?!