Author: Garth Beyer

When you realize it wasn’t worth it, you have a choice.

You can sulk. You can swim in the lost costs. You can let it kill the rest of your day, or maybe even your week if you really want it to.

Or you can acknowledge the lesson from it and know you never need to go that route again. Lucky you, you’ve ruled out an option that someone else may have to consider along with all the others for themselves.

It may feel like it was an anchor slowing you down, but having a list of actions that weren’t worth it actually gives you a competitive advantage going forward.

Stay Positive & Which Will You Choose? And How Fast Will You Choose It?

Procrastination is often seen as the enemy of productivity, but what if you could harness it?

The key is recognizing when procrastination strikes and pivoting to smaller tasks tied to the larger objective you’re avoiding. When you avoid a big task, use that energy to complete quick, easy-to-do items that support the progress. This keeps momentum going and, before you know it, the intimidating task becomes easier to approach.

Productivity isn’t about being busy; it’s about learning to manage avoidance effectively; to work through it; to dance with it.

Stay Positive & Go Ahead, Trick Yourself

There’s a formula for living a full life. It’s along the lines of having one daily habit per month, one adventure (as in, doing something you’ve never done before) per quarter, and one huge project (think something like launching and operating a weekly podcast) for the year.

There’s a formula for an effective marketing campaign. It’s along the lines of having a close enough relationship with the target market that you understand the heart of their actions and needs. Paired with the right automation and analytical tools. Then layer it with a team of people who give a damn.

There’s a formula for a meaningful relationship, too. It’s one where the amount of selflessness outweighs selfishness. It’s one where you love yourself first and then the other. It’s one with proactive communication at the core.

There’s a formula out there for everything. Finding the formula isn’t the hard part, though, is it?

Stay Positive & Time To Put The Formula Into Motion

They don’t even call it leaping if the gap is too thin.

Leaping is about at the point that you need some momentum to make it across the gap.

I’m not sure I know the verb to communicate the motion required to cross the distance of a gap that is more than a leap, but I do know one thing.

To do so would be exciting, productive, differentiating, and remarkable.

Outside of not knowing what to call it, not sure there’s anything stopping us from doing more than leaping, huh?

Stay Positive & One …Two… Three… GO

Parts of life are not like a glass of water. It’s not visible when the glass is full.

A full glass…obviously, can’t take on more water.

Easy enough to dump some water out to make room.

Less easy in life.

The hack?

The faster you can move things, the more space you can create.

(It’s not about closing a door. It’s about finishing a room and then closing the door.)

Stay Positive & Knock Knock

You can spend a lot of time figuring out a differentiator or creating one if you don’t have one.

If you want to dominate the market, you need at least two differentiators.

One is easy, though. Give a damn more…Care more.

“No one cares about you as much as us” goes a longgggg way.

It does one more thing: it forces you to have an incredibly special other differentiator because giving a damn encompasses a lot of actions that others would deem a differentiator.

If your goal is market dominance; this is the way.

Stay Positive & Give The Biggest Damn…Then What?

It’s quite simple: if you can look back and feel fulfilled about what you did…that’s productive.

If you can look back and feel you should have done something else…that’s busy.

Coolest part about this evaluation?

You don’t need to wait for it to be in the past. You can play the scenario out in your head and know before you even start the work.

Stay Positive & What’ll It Be Today?