Author: Garth Beyer

There’s a lot of reasons to overdo something.

You’re bound to create a remarkable experience for a guest if you overdo it with the service.

You’re bound to be treated with more respect and love from your significant other if you overdo the ways you care about them.

You’re bound to benefit in some way down the road when you overdo it on that project at work.

Overdone actions get noticed and appreciated (though maybe don’t apply this concept to cooking steak).

The most important reason to overdo it IMO: because it’s fun.

It’s fun to treat others. Fun to surpass a goal. Fun to give more than expected.

Stay Positive & There’s Little Fun In A Perfect Amount

Can you cut 10k words from your novel?

Can you answer a question about the future of your business in no more than two sentences?

Can you write that email in one paragraph?

Short, of course, is not the goal. Getting it short enough that you feel that if you made it any shorter, the recipient would have less value out of it is the goal.

Find that feeling and you’ve found the shortest, most impactful path from a to b.

Stay Positive & Shorter Is Harder, Harder Is Better

There’s a powerful and simple question: is this something I can take for granted?

The moment we evaluate if or how we can take something for granted, we realize we might already be.

Stay Positive & Better To Attack It In The Present Than The Past

Writing for others is really just a smart way to remind yourself of the lessons you’ve learned or to stretch the imagination of your own mind.

Teach others is really just a smart way to build your own intellect on a subject.

Spending time with others is really just a way to overcome the feeling of loneliness of ourselves.

Hard to argue that any of these actions are selfish, right? But they are. And they are in the best way possible.

Stay Positive & Selfish By Way Of Selfless Is The Best Kind Of Selfish

It would be easy, but certainly not as fulfilling, rewarding, lesson-teaching, growth-challenging…

Stay Positive & The Hard Parts Is What Creates The Worth

Far better to act now.

Before the boss does.

Before you get content and inaction becomes the normal pattern.

Before the iron cools off.

Before the lizard brain speaks up.

Before someone else does and gets the credit.

Before you’re distracted.

Before you finish reading this blog post.

Before it’s needed.

Stay Positive & Sooner The Better

It blows my mind how so many zero in on a trip on February or March to have something to look forward to after the new year and winter blues sets in.

The premise is tried and true. It takes no convincing for me to write that we’re generally happier and more connective with others when we have something to look forward to.

Which begs the question: what are you looking forward to later today? This weekend? Next month?

You don’t need to post a lovely mantra in front of your computer every day to stay positive. Sometimes reading the same thing gets old, anyway. But having something to look forward to front and center?

Magic is in the possibilities. Happiness is in the magic.

Stay Positive & Make Something To Look Forward To