Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
There are a lot of metrics you can report on. A lot of spectrums you can measure. A lot of observation you can report on.
But if action items don’t follow each mention of a metric; they’re not worth measuring.
Stay Positive & Measure The Meaningful
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First you need to love what you do. Love creating. Love posting and sharing.
Then you’ve gotta delete; to see it as a quantity game. The more ideas around what you love, the more ideas get removed – with a few great ones carrying on.
And then we repeat. We create more. Ideate more. Ship more.
Each time, weaning out the weak, promoting the best and mastering our craft.
Stay Positive & Enjoy The Cycle
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Here’s a list worth making: Things that fill you up.
You know, things that bring you joy, make you laugh or get you to feel fulfilled at the end of the day.
The next task is to do more on that list.
Here’s a list worth making: Things that drain you.
You know, complaining, reading click bait, surfing Twitter.
The next task is to do less on that list.
Stay Positive & Grab Your Cup And Let’s Get To Work
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Answers might be hard to find from time to time, but emotions? They’re a click away.
The ease of finding anger or frustration or sadness on the internet begs us to always be asking the question: what are we in search of?
If we’re finding emotions we don’t actually want; it’s time to change what we’re searching.
You’re just a couple clicks away from feeling better.
Stay Positive & Search And You Will Find
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To have ones work taken and built upon – it’s an honor.
Not an insult. Not theft.
They won’t come after you and try to destroy you for taking something that works and adding to it.
No.
If anything, they’ll thank you and awe at the fact you were able to build on their legacy.
Business plans. Spreadsheets. Meeting formats. Platforms. Websites.
There are thousands out there that work great.
Unless you’re in the business of reinventing the wheel – don’t.
Stay Positive & Keep Building
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Automation is magic.
Automatic email responses save you time. Automatically hiding notifications prevents you from getting distracted. Automatic ordering keeps your inventory at the right pace. Automatic labeling makes tracking fees on Quickbooks swift.
In a world where nearly anything can be automated, it’s important to decide what you’ll do with the free time you get from automation.
Will you make the work better? Invest in an un-automated idea? Spend more time with those you love?
Often times, if we don’t plan how we want to use the time and headspace saved from automation, we end up wasting it.
Stay Positive & Don’t Waste The Good Stuff
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If you read about something and then share it, there’s inherent layers of trust there.
If you had a friend have an experience and then you talk to others about it, there’s inherent layers of trust in what you say – more than if you read about the experience before sharing.
You can guess where I’m going with this.
The final layer of trust comes from having done the thing you’re talking to others about.
It’s about having practiced what you’re preaching; about having done the grunt work; about personally understanding on top of having read about it and talked to others about it.
It’s layers.
Layer 1: Do the homework.
Layer 2: Discuss with others.
Layer 3: Trial and error.
This applies from what meals you recommend, podcasts you join, meetings you run and projects you lead. Anywhere there’s trust; there are layers.
Stay Positive & For Complete Trust, You Need Every Layer
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