Life Lesson

Everything we’ve come to enjoy using was inched ahead by hundreds of people before the one who has their name attached to the current version.

The acknowledgment section of books used to contain just a handful of names, now chances are likely there’s a good 50+ at the end of the book you’re reading.

Which is a great reminder that you don’t need to wait for perfection or originality. You just need to inch the work a bit further and closer to the current target.

Do it enough times and you’ll see your world change.

Stay Positive & Drip By Drip

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Aside from a haunted house or a bar that looks like its roof is going to cave in any moment, it’s in our best interest to go to places we’d rather avoid.

This could be physical locations; ones of different culture or that have different offerings than we’re used to.

It could mean emotional states; ones that put us accountable or vulnerable or outside our comfort zone.

The magic doesn’t just happen once you’re there, it flows well beyond.

Stay Positive & But You Do Need To Go There First

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There are two kinds of word of mouth.

There’s the remarkability of what you offer in the sense that people will want to talk to others about it.

Then there’s the remarkability of what you offer in the sense that people want to come back to you for more.

That is the goal right–to keep them coming back?

The more dialogue you have, the more trust you craft and the greater the chance they tell others about you, too.

Stay Positive & More Diologue

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New platforms and communities are popping up every day. There are more ways to create something and to publish and share it with the world.

One thing is absolutely true about the golden contributors of the next platform: you can’t predict them.

People who never created before are. People who have been creating for ages stop. People who think there isn’t an audience for their content find them. People who think there is an audience for their content find there’s not.

Unpredictability at its largest.

Your chances of being the next golden contributor are as good as anyone else’s.

Assuming, that is, you contribute.

Stay Positive & Go Ahead And Ship

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Whether you’re wanting to start a habit or break one, there’s only one requirement: effort.

And effort is something you can make at any time, anywhere.

Anything short of putting in the effort is merely an excuse to hold on to a habit or hold off starting one.

Stay Positive & Effort Is There When You Are

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What people do with their up time changes the world.

I’d argue, that what people do with their down time changes it even more.

A lot more energy is put into it, a lot more flow, a lot more community and a lot more care.

Which is why it’s important to take inventory of the down time.

Stay Positive & Invest Where It Matters

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There’s the easy path and the efficient path.

It doesn’t do one well to confuse the easy one with the efficient one.

Stay Positive & You Get To Choose

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