Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
It’s a lot easier to move forward in working with a group if you think about how special of an opportunity it is.
It’s a lot easier to overcome challenges if you imagine that the journey ahead will be full of difficulties.
We can imagine good scenarios and bad; the important part is we imagine them in a way that helps us rather than hurts us.
Stay Positive & Imagine If It Were Easy To Switch The Thinking
The quickest way to make a friend? Be a friend.
It works for inspiration, too.
Rather than waiting for it to strike you. You’ll find it when you get it to strike for someone else.
The best way to be inspired… be inspiring, first.
Stay Positive & It’s On You
You can’t build a deck without lumber that has been treated to last.
Much like ourselves. Or our relationships. Or our projects.
Stay Positive & The Prep Is A Requirement
Isn’t it odd that they don’t teach frustration courses at your local community college?
There’s no gym to pay monthly for to practice getting frustrated.
I have yet to come across a sub reddit for getting better at being frustrated.
All to suggest, there’s a space out there for exercising good habits; not bad.
Probably not worth trying to do it ourselves, huh?
Frustrating, I know.
Stay Positive & Membership Of 1 Isn’t That Fun, Anyway
I’d like to argue that the reason many lose momentum of a great habit is that there’s no end to it in sight.
They didn’t define the conclusion; didn’t set the finish line tape; didn’t define what done looks like.
We don’t decide the end so that we can work backward (though it does help in planning)…we decide it so we know what needs to be done when we wake up. It’s harder to lose momentum when you know what that momentum is building toward.
Go ahead. Write your ending.
Stay Positive & Now Keep It In Sight
There’s the obvious side of resilience: action through the challenging time…forward movement against friction…making progress despite the odds against you.
The other side is less obvious: Reflect, learn and evolve. It’s about responding, reflecting and growing from the opposition rather than fighting through it. It’s talking with a friend about the situation…journaling about the lessons you’re learning…pausing the forward moment to ensure you’re going in the right direction with the right motiv.
Stay Positive & Resilience Is Most Impactful When Both Sides Of It Are Flexed
Recovery isn’t only a necessity when something goes wrong.
It’s just as important when things are going right.
It would behoove us to treat our work and our relationships more like lifting weights. We stretch and make progress and then nurse ourselves to recover and grow from the exercise.
“Always on” isn’t an attribute I’m interested in a team member having.
I’d put my money on the one that creates space to recover than the one who doesn’t.
Stay Positive & Can I Put My Money On You?
