Author: Garth Beyer

Automation is magic.

Automatic email responses save you time. Automatically hiding notifications prevents you from getting distracted. Automatic ordering keeps your inventory at the right pace. Automatic labeling makes tracking fees on Quickbooks swift.

In a world where nearly anything can be automated, it’s important to decide what you’ll do with the free time you get from automation.

Will you make the work better? Invest in an un-automated idea? Spend more time with those you love?

Often times, if we don’t plan how we want to use the time and headspace saved from automation, we end up wasting it.

Stay Positive & Don’t Waste The Good Stuff

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If you read about something and then share it, there’s inherent layers of trust there.

If you had a friend have an experience and then you talk to others about it, there’s inherent layers of trust in what you say – more than if you read about the experience before sharing.

You can guess where I’m going with this.

The final layer of trust comes from having done the thing you’re talking to others about.

It’s about having practiced what you’re preaching; about having done the grunt work; about personally understanding on top of having read about it and talked to others about it.

It’s layers.

Layer 1: Do the homework.

Layer 2: Discuss with others.

Layer 3: Trial and error.

This applies from what meals you recommend, podcasts you join, meetings you run and projects you lead. Anywhere there’s trust; there are layers.

Stay Positive & For Complete Trust, You Need Every Layer

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There are the obvious things we check to ensure we have with us as we go from meeting to meeting or space to space.

Phone. Wallet. Keys.

Paperwork. Reference documents. A business card.

A website URL. A customer service number. A vendor recommendation.

Then there are the nonobvious things we bring with us from meeting to meeting or space to space.

Emotions. Attitudes. Energy. (Good… or bad depending on the meeting or space we just came from.)

A willingness to leap. A drive for excellence. A helping hand.

Like checking for your phone, it’s worth checking to make sure you’ve brought the good energy and attitude with you to your current meeting or space.

And like taking a moment to silence your phone, everyone will appreciate if you need to step out for a second to leave any ego or attitude at the door.

Stay Positive & Check, Check, Check

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The lobby of your doctor’s office sends quite a signal about the experience you’re about to have.

The lobby of the hotel automatically triggers and influences your emotions about your stay.

The lobby of your website (home page) sets a visitor up for success (or failure).

The lobby of your house matters. The lobby of your work matters. The lobby of a project KO matters.

A lobby can mean a lot of different things. All of which are equally important to focus on because all of them influence the emotion and experience for what follows after entering the lobby.

Stay Positive & Enjoy Your Stay

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Doing the emotional labor earns trust.

Sticking to all the promises – large and small – earns trust.

Skipping short term profits for long term investments earns trust.

Doing the hard stuff first earns trust.

Showing you’ll do the grunt work, too, earns trust.

Making sacrifices for others earns trust.

There are dozens of ways to earn trust – and as many ways to lose it.

Stay Positive & Which Are You Doing Today?

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There’s no shortage of available formulas for some form of success.

But it begs questioning on what the formula we’re choosing to use is for.

Is it a formula for vanity metrics or for moving people?

Is it a formula for clicks or loyalty?

Is it a formula that works on the masses or for your small but connected tribe?

Just because the formula is available, doesn’t mean it’s the one we should use.

Click bait articles have a formula to them, but is that the audience you want?

Stay Positive & Choose Your Formula Wisely

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Idleness is the problem. Paralysis is the problem. Standing still is the problem.

Fear isn’t the problem.

Fear is something you can dance with; it’s a sign that you’re on your way to something meaningful.

The fear you feel before taking a leap isn’t the problem because the only solution to it is to not leap.

And we have enough people not leaping, don’t we?

Stay Positive & Unstill

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