Author: Garth Beyer

The odds are not in your favor.

Not to mention, being a winner is easy.

How you lose makes all the difference.

Even more important than how you act when no one is looking.

Stay Positive & With Your Chin Up

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There’s a difference between work that is putting the finishing touch on something and work to perfect it.

Certainly, the line is moving and tricky to place, but once you find it, you can relieve yourself from the duty to perfect the work (because it won’t actually ever be perfect).

Letting go of perfection, however, is not an excuse to leave the polish off the work. The finishing touch not only matters to those the work is for, but it matters for your own fulfillment.

It simply feels good to ship something you know has the finishing touch on it.

After all, the touch shows others simply how much you care, whereas perfectionism delays you from shipping the product–and if you can so easily delay, is it really so important for others to have it?

Stay Positive & Ship It (But With A Coat Of Polish)

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One habit of highly successful people is that they always have something to give – and they give it.

No matter who they are meeting, where or under what conditions, they have something with them to give.

It might be tangible like a beer or a pen or a check. It might also be something deeper like giving time to listen or a sense of comfort.

Before you head out the door, it’s worth making sure you’re bringing something to give.

Stay Positive & Something Is Better Than Nothing

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The brands that we remember are the brands that keep consistent.

The people we rely on most are the ones who stay consistent.

The work that makes the most impact is the work we do consistently.

To those who are showing up every day, who stick to their values, who X … thank you.

Stay Positive & Keep At It

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If you’re facing a problem that’s difficult to solve. Write about it in an email. Make it a freewrite. Just get the notes down.

Then if the solution doesn’t show itself there. Text your thoughts about a problem to a friend. (If anything, it’ll be fun when they ask what the hell you’re talking about.)

If that doesn’t work, get out a pad of paper and a pen and write it there.

We can be writing about the same problem across digital, phones and paper, but what gets shown will be vastly different because our brains think about things differently based on the medium we’re using.

Stay Positive & Use It To Your Advantage

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The work is only meaningful because of the people it will impact.

The work becomes fun when you have awesome people by your side.

The work makes us feel fulfilled when it connects us with others.

The work sources it’s energy from the people behind it.

The work will always be the work. We owe it to ourselves to make sure we’re doing it beside the right people and for the right people.

Stay Positive & Fist Bump

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If a runner expects herself to only run a 5k, but finds herself in a marathon, it’s not likely she’ll make it.

If an entrepreneur expects the work to ease up for a month, but reality sets in and he needs to put in the same amount of hours for another year – that’s a recipe for disaster.

One of the best actions we can take for ourselves is a mental one: Increase the expectation of the work it’s going to take.

Then, when it does require more effort, you’re not surprised or worse, defeated.

And when it doesn’t, you feel more relief than you would have if you had lower expectations.

Stay Positive & Play The Mind Game

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