Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
For the sake of this post, let’s assume everything is a game.
The question then is what kind of game?
Is it a finite one or infinite one?
In other words; is it the one we play for the sake of playing or is it one we play to win.
Perhaps there’s nothing wrong with the game…rather there’s something wrong with the kind of game we think we’re playing.
Stay Positive & Pick And Choose
if it’s not one thing; it’s another.
Always.
It’s pointless to complain about it. It’s a law as real as gravity.
Stay Positive & Focus On Moving Forward
I’ve never seen a small treasure. Treasures are always large.
Which is funny then how we fail in sizing out the action of treasuring something.
“Treasure the moments you have with them.”
And yet there’s very little acknowledgement or time toward that.
All to say, if you’re going to treasure something, let’s truly treasure it. In largess. In bulk. In heft and intention.
Stay Positive & Did You Give Hugs Or Bear Hugs Yesterday?
When you post something to a Slack group; it’s hard not to want a reaction.
When you tell someone you’re grateful for them; it’s hard not to want a response.
When you’ve written more than 4,500 blog posts; it’s hard not to want some acknowledgement.
The list goes on in the scenarios that we hope for a reaction or response.
It’s worth reminding ourselves (regularly) that the response and reaction was never the point, never the goal. It’s an afterthought we have that eats at the pride we can have in doing or saying what we did.
When you say “thank you,” Seth is right that it’s a full sentence. It’s also one that needs nothing in return.
Stay Positive & Remember Your Why
The best time is always now.
To say it was in the past is just a good story hook.
To say it is in the future is just your lizard brain speaking up.
The reality is that time doesn’t actually have anything to do with the action being the best.
We create the best; we’re responsible for putting the “best” in the “best time.”
So, yea. The best time really is now.
Stay Positive & Get At It
p.s. might you have to pivot and strategize around the “timing” piece. Sure. That doesn’t make it any less of a best time to start. That’s like saying “this is hard so it’s not the best time to do it.”
There was a satirical video I recently saw about how amazing life is at age 30…. as long as you exercise five times per week, limit alcohol, avoid processed foods, sleep 8 hours, meditate… and the list went on.
It’s different at age 80 though. Walk regularly. Keep brain sharp with puzzles. Remain engaged in community activities. The list goes on.
Different in high school, too. It’s great if you can be the first to learn the viral dance, get in trouble (but not too much trouble), play sports, and share your snacks at the lunch table.
What I witness time and time again is people getting frustrated with the difficulty of life.
The reality is that what you’re going through now is no more difficult than what you went through years ago or will go through years from now.
It’s only different.
You made it through then. It should offer you some peace of mind to know that.
Fortunately for us, while we don’t have good control on that level of difficulty, we do have control of what exactly is different; what do we sign up for; what kind of legacy are we trying to leave now?
Stay Positive & Imagination Is Under Your Control
When you decide; it’s not that everything gets easier.
It’s a tectonic shift of what is hard and easy.
The hard stuff that was hard before deciding becomes easy.
The easy stuff (that is, the stuff that you didn’t have to do because you hadn’t decided yet) becomes hard.
The leaders worth following in the foot steps of don’t just do hard stuff… they do the better hard stuff.
And to get to better, we have to first decide to.
Stay Positive & Simplify Your Menu
