Author: Garth Beyer

You won’t always hear feedback from a customer that the product mix you put together was just what they were looking for.

You won’t always hear from colleagues how grateful they are to have you on their team.

You won’t always hear compliments, reassurance, words of support and encouragement. (And you definitely won’t always hear it when you need it most.)

But that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Nor does it mean you can’t double down and reassure yourself.

Confirm the work you’re doing is target-centric. Collaborate in a way that – if you were others – you would miss you if you were gone. Tell yourself that you’ve got the power to push through and that you’re a rock star.

Suppose you can always hear it if you choose to.

Stay Positive & Ears Open

Photo credit

Good or bad timing; there’s really no such thing.

The kind of timing isn’t something that just is or isn’t.

The type of timing is something we assign, attribute, and pin.

There’s no universal checklist for what qualifies as bad timing, nor good timing.

No example list.

Because the type of timing is a choice.

If you want to see something as bad timing, you can.

Same for good timing.

Stay Positive & It’s Always A Choice; The Story We Choose To Tell Ourselves

Photo credit

The unstated commitment to create change with ones work is the sign of an artist.

After the layers of becoming an expert, doing the reading and showing up regularly – it’s about the change.

Taking something from over there and applying it to your work. Trying something new. Listening further to what the target wants and changing with them.

If you don’t find yourself thinking “this might not work” then you’re not committing to the power of change.

Stay Positive & Enroll In The Path Of New

Photo credit

One might think the sign of a great leader is that they don’t need to check up on work they’ve led others to do. They set others up for success, after all. No need to check up.

Au contraire.

Leaders are recognized for their excellence precisely because they check up on the work, the employees, the target, etc.

Remarkable leaders put as much effort into new forward movement as they do ensuring the path they’ve previously placed continues to function.

Stay Positive & Do More Than Rely On Hindsight

Photo credit

Determination, resilience, grit – these are all skills you can teach yourself.

Empathy, listening and caring, too.

That being said, just as important as it is to learn and grow these skills; it’s important to unteach ones that aren’t helpful.

Ego, fear, and anxiety.

Negativity, stress and worry, too.

To unteach requires two efforts: It’s nipping the bad skills in the butt when they show up and it’s refocusing the energy on their opposites.

Simple, but hard. Hard, but effective.

Stay Positive & Get At It

Photo credit

Being able to hold it is a talent.

Holding your breath. Holding your bladder. Holding a secret.

But also holding your emotion.

It can get you through tough times, dips and rough patches.

But it has to be unheld at some point.

The true professional is smart about the when and how of that as much as they are with their tenacity to hold it in when they need to.

Stay Positive & Focus On The Let Go As Much As The Hold In

Photo credit

Truthfully, it might not be for the best. It might make the future harder, our life harder, the work harder.

But what’s the point of believing in that?

And, if anything, finding a way to trust in the change being for the best will help us get to the easier part, the flow, the momentum sooner.

Stay Positive & Not Thinking It’s For The Best Is A Waste

Photo credit