Author: Garth Beyer

I’ve never heard anyone complain about having a second pair of eyes on any of their work.

Maybe they didn’t like the talk track that came with it, but that’s different than having someone engaged in helping you with your work. The simple act of asking someone for their eyes is the level of accountability one needs to get to “good enough.”

It’s a curious measurement: how much work do you get a second pair of eyes on before you ship?

You probably don’t need four eyes to see that it could be more.

Stay Positive & See More, Ship More

It’s a simple goal for any relationship regardless of context: sales meeting, happenstance interaction, friend group meetup… you name it.

Stay Positive & There’s More With You Than You Realize

How much did you do for others today compared to yourself?

How much did you listen instead of talk [or ask instead of answer]?

How much did you give versus take?

How much did you understand before you took action?

Stay Positive & Maybe You’re Using The Wrong Cups?

You can search for the right friends. You can find groups of people who share a similar hobby as you. You can source support for a role.

Or…

You can start being a friend to others. You can host a meetup for the hobby you’re passionate about. You can learn a new skill for that role that’s open.

Stay Positive & Which Will It Be Today?

And I really do mean not fun. Not when it’s merely hard or challenging.

When it’s not fun, perhaps it’s time to tag in a friend to help. (Misery loves that company!)

When it’s not fun… it’s time to ask Chatgpt to do the work for you or better yet, inspire you with ways to make the task fun if it can’t do the work for you (hell, maybe ask it even if it can do the work for you).

When it’s not fun, consider reflecting on the why of what you’re doing that isn’t fun. Perhaps you merely forgot.

When something’s not fun; the job isn’t to push through, it’s to reflect and redirect.

Stay Positive & If You’re Going Through Hell…Why?

There’s a spectrum of traffic quality.

There’s traffic on the road. Not fun.

Then there’s website traffic. That’s good stuff.

Then you have IMO the best kind of traffic: foot traffic.

Where on the spectrum do you spend the most time focusing on/creating?

Stay Positive & Beep Beep

By all means, if you can simply notice how big of a sigh you just made, go take a walk.

If you can notice your hands shaking. Blood boiling. Or say out lout “what the fuck.” Go take a walk.

If you’ve hit a road block; stared at your screen without typing for more than 10 minutes; if you’ve retyped that message five times and still have not hit send… go take a walk.

More often than not, you’ll find the path through the hardest stuff starts with a walk around your block.

Stay Positive & Notice When It’s Time To Get Your Steps In