Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
More specifically, quality prospects are finite.
Clients you enjoy having as clients are finite.
Customers that make you feel fulfilled about going into your line of business are finite.
Knowing then that there is not an endless pipeline of quality prospects, are you treating the current ones (the good ones) right?
Stay Positive & Value The Core
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Procrastination isn’t bad in every sense.
There’s time for ideas to percolate. There’s time that someone else might do the work that needs to be done. There’s time for folks to realize that maybe the task is actually a distraction from the real work that needs to be done.
BUT, more often than not, procrastination’s consequences outnumber it’s potential benefits.
The most frustrating problem about procrastinating is that the world is sure to throw you more to do right when you’ve decided to stop procrastinating and get to work.
That moment leads to overwhelming stress and frustration; feelings of being buried and unable to climb out – and if you can, it feels half-assed.
Why risk those feelings?
Stay Positive & Take Care Of Business Quick
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The ruckus makers doing meaningful work and changing our culture for the better; their lean in speed is lightening fast.
If there’s an issue, they lean in. If there’s a relationship to build, they lean in. If there’s a wall to climb, they lean in. And quick.
The opposite, of course, results in banality, lack of feelings of fulfillment and busy work.
Stay Positive & Don’t Lean Back, Lean In
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You can lend a hand when someone is in need. Maybe their problem is having to get all of their stuff into a moving truck. Maybe they’re having relationship issues. Maybe they bought too much beer and can use some help drinking it.
Moments when lending a hand can be a difference maker are pretty obvious.
The not-so-obvious is when a story is what’s needed.
The teacher that’s breaking curriculum to help a student follow their passion needs to do more than lend a hand, she needs to lend a story; to herself, to the student, and likely to the board and the student’s parents.
The project manager that needs to keep a project moving. They don’t need an extra set of hands; they need to lend a story to those working on the project that motivates them, a story to the stakeholders that are wanting the project done yesterday, a story to themselves about resilience and determination.
There are times that a lending hand can help, but far more often a story can help more.
Stay Positive & What Story Are You Lending?
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If it’s easy for them to provide feedback, it’s probably not feedback worth acting on.
If it’s easy for them to complete the task, it’s probably not a task worth investing in (unless the investment is in how to automate the easy task).
We’ve made it too easy for critics, busy work, and poor investments to take hold.
If it’s hard for you to move on from what’s easy, then it’s a move worth making.
Stay Positive & Find The Hard Things Worth Listening To, Acting In And Building Unto
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To get your return, it takes more than cash.
It takes attention to detail and emotional labor and rallying a tribe around your investment.
It takes work to get the return.
If you’re telling yourself (or others are telling you) that you can get ahead by putting some of your resources in a bucket and then do nothing after – they’re wrong more than they’re right.
Significantly more times wrong.
Stay Positive & Get Ready To Do Some Work (Worth Doing)
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Awards, success, remarkability isn’t gained by being excellent at one single thing.
Nor is it about being successful in a variety.
But being skilled at a cluster of actions and ways of thinking can be a difference maker.
More of a zone situation than a lane. More of a honeycomb than a bullseye.
Stay Positive & Focus Your Gains In The Cluster Where It Matters
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