Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
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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It’s easy to add things to your schedule, to spend your time, to watch a few hours fly by at the blink of your eye.
Much more difficult to face our own reality of how we use our time.
For too many (myself included) and too often, we try to erase our memory of what we wasted our time on.
But when we don’t hide. When we mark and see and respond to it, we can make better decisions going forward.
The way we feel fulfilled at the end of the day isn’t a matter of how much we create or invest or do in the day; it’s about how content we are with how we invested our time.
Stay Positive & Time To Keep Track
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Confidence doesn’t permit us to lead.
Leading is what gives us confidence.
Stay Positive & Let’s Roll
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We learn when we stretch and we stretch when we ask tough questions.
But don’t be flabbergasted when after you ask and answer the questions, that more arrive.
As Bernadette Jiwa has written, “the path to success is progressive and iterative.”
We need to keep our courage after answering tough questions to ask even more.
Stay Positive & Might As Well Enjoy The Ride
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Nearly everything on your to-do list can be done at half the time you expect.
We often blow the investment out of proportion because it gives us the chance to cop out of doing the work right now.
“It’s going to take too much time, so I’ll do it later.”
“I don’t have the hour of focus to do the task.”
“It’s going to take me too long to catch up on the email chain.”
It’s simply not true.
And rather than argue it. Go ahead and start the task you think you don’t have time for and see what happens.
Stay Positive & It’s Time We Stop Using Time To Hide From The Work
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