Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Your team members might have the smarts and experience to do the job you’ve hired them to do, but the truth is that it’s unlikely that action or task or skill is their special power.
If you pay close enough attention, you’ll detect their special power. People can’t help but display it.
And once you tap into that – that’s when their work becomes more remarkable.
People talk about passions much more than a job that was done well.
Stay Positive & Unlock Their Potential
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Everyone has their own learning methods, no doubt, but nothing will get you to understand a process or prepare for executing a task than watching someone else do it (or at least try to do it).
If you want to create something, watch someone else do it.
Then watch another person. And another. And another.
And in case you didn’t know, most people are helpful.
All you have to do is ask to observe.
Stay Positive & You Don’t Have To Do Trial By Error
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Know your limits.
It’s a grand piece of advice, but hard to apply to life unless you ask (and answer) the questions.
How much money do you want to make?
How many customers do you want to have to consider your business a success?
How many subscribers to your free newsletter before you feel the work you put into them is worth it?
It’s far easier to achieve a goal if you know the limit and it’s far easier to live happily once you reach it when you know you’ve reached it.
People who say sky is the limit are bound for endless unhappiness.
Know your limit. Chase it. Enjoy it.
Stay Positive & You Can Always Choose A Different Limit (But Choosing Is The Point)
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We’re always seeking something in our work. And the rough part is that we often seek it before the actual work.
If it’s before, then it’s reassurance we’re after.
This is why so many writer’s don’t actually publish, ideators don’t actually invent, and artists don’t actually ship their work.
No reassurance = no work.
Feedback on the other hand is different. Feedback requires one to create something and share it. Feedback can be used to improve something (whereas reassurance doesn’t do anything to the end product).
It’s worth checking if you’re seeking out reassurance or feedback throughout the day.
Stay Positive & Seek Candor Over Affirmations
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This isn’t a case for mistakes that happen naturally.
This is a case for thinking about what mistakes might happen. What’s possible to fail? Where are the hiccups?
The only thing about a plan that we know to be true is that things won’t go as according to it.
So how can you safe guard?
Role play.
Imagine the scenarios that a hiccup might occur and not only what you would do to correct it, but what would you do to ensure it never happens again.
Then take a page from that playbook and apply it before the hiccup happens.
This won’t prevent every problem and mistake from happening, but it will prevent more from happening than what will occur if you don’t.
Stay Positive & (Fictitiously) Make More Mistakes
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If you treat a job like a job; it’s going to feel like a job for most.
If you treat an employee like they’re valued; most are going to go the extra mile for you.
If you treat your product with care; most consumers are going to care for it, too.
Not everyone and not always.
But when you treat things the right away, others tend to respond accordingly.
Stay Positive & How Are You Treating Your Day?
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There’s the kind of person that’s looking and might find you.
Especially if you play strong with SEO. Especially if you have good media relations support. Especially if you advertise in the right places.
People might gather that you exist and they should check you out/purchase/sign up/etc.
Then there’s the kind of person that’s hunting for you specifically.
Especially if you are remarkable enough and someone they trust mentioned they should check you out. Especially if you provide more value than the perceived cost. Especially if the media can’t help but cover what you’re doing.
There’s a difference between being desired and being stumbled upon.
One type of person is nice to have. The other is essential.
Stay Positive & Be What They Seek Out
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