Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
You can answer the question with a task or process or job description.
Or you can answer it with a template that puts the focus not on you, but on others.
What do you do?
I help X do Y.
What do you do?
I help breweries thrive … children recover from poor parenting … neighbors discover a new flavor ….
All meaningful work comes from helping others. So who are you helping? How?
That’s the answer people want to hear and connect with.
Stay Positive & Let’s Try It Again, What Do You Do?
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The lemon law is simply another way to give yourself permission to avoid sunk costs.
The sooner you leave something that’s dragging you down, the sooner you plug the hole in the boat, the sooner you say no; the better.
The law exists for a reason.
Because it works.
Stay Positive & Don’t Let The Sunk Costs Sour You Up
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Budgeting and cash flow
Increasing demand
Adding unexpected value
Growing others (and yourself)
Preparing for hardship
Preparing for success
Remembering why you’re doing what you’re doing
Stay Positive & It Might Be Worth Keying In On That Last One
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Even if every action you took during the day was part of a positive habit, it couldn’t stay.
The world continues to change around us, as does the culture. There are more people changing than they are not – no matter how hard we try to be in the group of not.
So, those daily habits, those regular positive behaviors may need to shift.
The challenge for any optimizer then isn’t what to replace it with, but how to shape a habit differently to fit the new (soon to be better?) reality.
Stay Positive & No Answer, Just Adventure
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It’s not typical, but it happens.
It happens when we rush, when we take shortcuts, when we talk more than listen and when we maintain ourselves with busy work instead of meaningful work.
It feels like progress – and it is – but not in the direction we may want.
Stay Positive & Gut Check Your Actions
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There are two books in my life that were by far the worst books I’ve read to date. They were far below my expectations and I didn’t learn much from either one of them.
Yet, they were part of what got me to where I am today, and today is a good day.
It can be easy to hate on elements of our past and let them sour our present.
It’s far more worth it to appreciate the present, though, and understand the past trials and tribulations were what got us here.
Stay Positive & Here Is Good, Isn’t It?
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There are actions you can take that may seem like a disruption to your flow, but are ultimately beneficial to the work at large.
If you’re struggling on a task, take a walk around the block.
If you’re getting lost in a monotonous process, have a drive by conversation with someone nearby.
If you’ve found your flow, pause and take a deep breath to actually appreciate it.
Stay Positive & Break A Habit For The Better
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