Author: Garth Beyer

The path isn’t linear.

There’s no map.

The way to better doesn’t require you to stay in your lane.

In fact, there’s more incentive not to.

You’ll learn more and grow faster by breaking status quo, learning from industries outside your own and doing the things that make you feel like they are risky.

Stay Positive & Buckle Up

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It’s an important person to have around.

For whatever reason – by default – we don’t push ourselves as much as we can. It’s likely why we’re so attracted to communities, groups, tribes; it’s others we know who will bring out the best in us.

The real challenge, of course, is on us to go out and find those who will get us to go further than we thought we could.

And maybe even more challenging, is to let go of those who won’t.

Stay Positive & Go Find The Others

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A great gauge of the value of the information you’re sharing is if it’s Googlable.

Everyone is getting smarter and given more access to more information than ever before. And nearly everyone has access to Google.

This might force you to create more experiences, show up with passion, invest more time in challenging facts than sharing them–all of this Google can’t do.

Keep yourself valuable.

People are paying to listen to you, whether it’s with time, money or their energy.

Stay Positive & We Owe It To Them (And Ourselves)

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1. Set your limits: This could be limiting TV time to limiting how much you eat to when you answer emails. Limits, constraints, guard rails are your friends.
2. Stay positive: As in, welcome adversity, know that there’s a solution to every problem and create the good in others’ experiences.
3. Surround yourself with really really remarkable people. The people will make or break you. Fortunately, you have a choice on who you hang with.

Stay Positive & 4. Start Now

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It’s not necessarily the content that you’re consistent with that they seek.

It’s not even the style that they’re gravitated toward.

What matters is that you consistently show up as your self.

Every day, the feeling of your interactions and offerings need to be the same.

And that’s pretty simple, too.

Stay Positive & Just Make Sure Your Heart Is In It

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It’s improbable to find pleasure long-term in situations that don’t change.

At some point, boredom hits or a drive to find something better encroaches.

So the best step forward is to find new ways to improve or alter the current situation; to not just find the good but create more of the great in the situation.

Better doesn’t have to be vastly different.

Stay Positive & Nuances Are Everything

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Facing a problem? Write about it.

Need a creative spark to ideation? Start writing.

Struggling with a decision? Write.

There’s no other activity that produces as strong of results as writing.

The key, however, is writing as exploration, not seeking a destination.

Stay Positive & Write Now

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