Author: Garth Beyer

The first hour of anything new is the toughest.

You learn you don’t have the right resources, so you need to go get them. You haven’t built up momentum, so everything feels like friction. You’re in this zone of figuring it out before you’re in the zone of optimization.

There’s no reason to get annoyed during the first hour. You know it’s going to be difficult.

Equally as important, though, is that you know it’s going to get smoother, easier, streamlined and faster.

Stay Positive & Push Through That Hour

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Though everything matters, everything is marketing, everything either subtracts or adds to the journey, we can still prioritize.

Prioritize what will matter a month from now or a year from now.

Prioritize relationships. Prioritize doing work that makes us feel fulfilled at the end of the day and energized for the next. Prioritize generosity.

Stay Positive & Time For More Of The Important Stuff

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It’s one thing to walk into a chocolatier’s shop and order ghost pepper caramel chocolate squares from a clerk.

It’s another thing to walk into a chocolotier’s shop and order ghost pepper caramel chocolate squares from a clerk when the owner is there, beside the clerk, working on her next masterpiece.

Your presence can shift someone’s experience for the better.

Stay Positive & All It Requires Is Showing Up

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Reminders never hurt – or shouldn’t if there’s positive intention behind them.

Reminders for yourself why you’re doing the work you’re doing.

Reminders for others that you’re putting their wants first.

Reminders to send the note, submit that project and share an appreciation with someone new to the team.

Sometimes we can get lost in action and what’s next.

Reminders can help keep us remain grounded (and positive) through it all.

Stay Positive & Remember?

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Go ahead. Take control of all that’s around you.

Create a place of inspiration with knickknacks and reminders of what makes you happy.

Invest more time with people who make you laugh and elevate your ideas and status and heart. Find your Poilâne.

Dive into the hustle and adrenaline rush that comes with the work you do.

We have no reason to not surround ourselves with what’s important, what’s connective, and simply what makes us feel good.

Stay Positive & It Feels Good To Feel Good

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What do you wish you could spend less time doing?

What do you wish you could spend more time doing?

These two answers are often telling of our why, our purpose, our drive.

Stay Positive & Don’t Lose Sight

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With electrical installations, the ground wire provides a conducting path to the earth, preventing a shock from occurring at the unit itself.

It’s not likely you would notice the ground wire is removed, especially if you’re careful with every action you take around the unit.

Our personal ground wires work a bit different.

While our personal ground wires provide the same out as an electrical ground wire, and while they make us feel safe and are there for us to prevent a shock from occurring, we miss them when they’re gone.

The other difference?

The shock they prevent for us is more than just a tiny second of physical pain.

Once you’ve found your ground wire. Hold onto them.

Stay Positive & Grounded

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