Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
The best kind of marketing happens with voice.
Not the Alexa and Google kind of voice.
But the face-to-face voice.
The moment you have with someone who asks why you’re doing what you’re doing, how you got started, where you hope to go or how they can help?
Stay Positive & Ready To Answer
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When you start driving, you never avoid the first pothole.
It’s new to you, unexpected and if you’re driving alone, you might get pissed that you hit it. If you’re driving with others, you’ve gotta deal with their feedback, too.
Fortunately, that’s just the first pothole. After that, it’s pretty rare that you’ll hit a second. You know to allow yourself enough reaction time, to look for it and you don’t want others critiquing your skills again. You’ll show them.
The same can be said for the first curb you ride over, the first yellow light you see if you can make it through, the first parallel park job, the first steep hill you have to break in the middle of, the first time you try to pass another vehicle that’s not going as slow as you thought …
It’s pretty clear we get better as drivers when we have more firsts and when we learn from them.
Same can be said for any act, really.
Stay Positive & So What Do You Do, Again?
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As you grow and move forward, you’re going to delegate tasks out.
And, without a doubt, the task will be done wrong.
But not necessarily.
You’re work as a leader entails seeing the growth in others as well as what’s right in what they’ve brought to the game.
It can be a downward spiral when you only focus on the wrong and cease to search for the value someone brought to the task – even if it’s different than what you asked for.
The only real failure is the failure of someone not trying: not trying to do something right … and not trying to see what’s right in the wrong.
Stay Positive & Wrong Doesn’t Have To Be If We’re Open To It
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If you’re reading this, it’s likely you’re a creator at heart.
You move forward, often. You try new things. Start new things. Let new things go.
While the pursuit of new is great.
It might be worth giving past projects a visit to see if you can make them better because nothing (especially digitally) goes away entirely.
Google rewards posts that are updated with fresh content.
You might remember a lesson you learned from project you launched years ago.
Oh, and we might not always think it, but people notice when there’s a fresh coat of paint on the wall.
Stay Positive & Grab A Brush
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What would it take for the idea to work?
How can you turn the work into an investment and not an expense of time?
What if we did X or Y or Z to make the project happen?
It’s far too easy to say no, to shrug an idea off and be a critic of a project.
Maybe the idea won’t work, and the work isn’t worth the investment and the project should never happen, but let’s at least move forward with heart.
Stay Positive & Onward
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It’s as simple as that.
No done. No complete. No banner you get to run through.
But there are dozens, if not hundreds of mile markers.
People offering you high fives and water to keep going.
People in disbelief you’re still moving forward.
Others offering you words of encouragement.
There’s the feeling of being on cloud nine and the feeling of wanting to give up.
There’s a lot within the pursuit.
But there is no finish line.
Stay Positive & Welcome To The Infinite Game
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The first step on the path to any solution for any problem is awareness of the problem, right?
So why don’t you have a list of signs that indicate a problem (especially a reoccurring one)?
Is the sign you’re working too much that you forgo working out in the morning?
Is the sign you’re not investing enough in your partner that you haven’t had dinner together in a week?
Is the sign that you’re emotionally stressed that you get a migraine?
The beautiful part about listing your signs is that they provide instant accountability for you to enforce a change in your habit when you see them.
Stay Positive & Help Yourself Help Your Self
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