Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Energy isn’t still and nor is culture, social norms or a conversation.
If you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backward.
Similarly, you can be adding value to a connection or decreasing the value.
Everything is in a constant state of change.
It’s on us to make sure it’s a positive one.
Stay Positive & How Are You Doing Today?
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Problems don’t get solved from afar.
They don’t get solved alone.
They don’t get solved over night.
They don’t get solved without passion.
At least, this is all true for problems worth solving.
Stay Positive & Pick The Right Problem
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While what’s important is that you’re in front, next to or with people, you’re sending a very different signal with your posture.
If you’re in front of them, you’re serving them, you’re listening, you’re giving them your all.
If you’re next to them, you’re helping them serve, you’re listening for how you make their life easier, you’re giving them your all so they can give their all to others.
If you’re with them, you’re serving together, listening together, giving together.
All postures are important, but there’s a reason “we” is more powerful than “me.”
Stay Positive & Who Are You With Today?
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Having all three isn’t necessarily the recipe for success or proof of an accomplishment.
But it’s certainly rare to build something meaningful without at least one of them.
Stay Positive & Still Up For It?
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Momentum sounds like it comes natural.
If we just show up, momentum does, too.
But it’s not true. Momentum takes hard work.
Momentum without force behind it never gets easier.
Momentum without resistance leads to a snowball effect that will hurt your mission more than help it.
Build the momentum, but then know you will need to manage it; it’s not a self-maintained law.
Stay Positive & It’s A Beauty When It’s Managed, Though
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Extra time can do a lot for us.
It can be what we need to make the right connection with someone or ignite the right conversation.
It can be what we need to add the polish on our work or put a bow on it.
It can also be what we need to celebrate a win before it’s onto the next thing.
No one gives us extra time, though. We have to carve it out ourselves.
Stay Positive & Extra Extra
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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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