Life Lesson

There are so many trends to try out. So many giveaway ideas. So many packaging designs.

You can do all the research you can to get the right trend for your business, the right giveaways to go viral, the right packaging design that catches someone’s eye.

But you still can’t do it without a guess, no matter how educated of one it is.

Trying something new isn’t just a consumer mentality.

And even if it was, how can they try something new if you never do?

Stay Positive & Out With The Same Ol’ Same Ol’

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Buttoning all the way up doesn’t leave much room.

In fact, sometimes it’s more restrictive and even suffocating if the fit isn’t right.

Leaving at least one button undone is an option; it’s also a posture.

The posture of one that’s open to ideas, yes, ands and candor. One that’s ready to pivot and turn their head to see more possibilities.

Certainly make sure the work is buttoned up, but perhaps it’s best in the long run to not button up so far as to hamper the work rather than help it.

Stay Positive & Don’t Get Me Started On Zippers

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Feeling of doubt and fear.

People telling you to reconsider.

Being worried of the potential outcomes.

A growing list of sacrifices.

These aren’t bad signs. They’re good signs.

Signs that you’re thinking the work through, getting ready to leap and willing to go through the dip to make a difference.

Stay Positive & See The Good

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Most cases are made better by caring more.

The grocery clerk who cares more than her colleagues is going to do better work.

The author who cares more about his novel will write a better story than one who does not.

There’s a problem with caring more, however. Such as…

It doesn’t do good to care more about what the critic thinks than one’s fans.

It’s harmful to care more about making a dime than deserving one in the first place.

It’s no good to care more what others will think of your work than what impact the work will have on the world.

The coat of the wrong kind of caring can be a heavy one, detrimental even.

Better to care better than to care more about the wrong things.

Stay Positive & Focus Your Heart

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Games are fun. Games build our productivity. Games get us excited.

Games make competition a good thing.

Games are the perfect combination of carrot and stick.

The only thing we need to make it a game is information.

More information = more ways to play.

Stay Positive & Start Consuming

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It’s garbage until it’s not.

It’s a shitty first draft until it’s not.

It’s a rough start until it’s not.

It’s never good. Until at one point. It is.

Every idol. Every celebrity. Ever marketer. Every star started out this way.

Stay Positive & The Difference Maker Is To Then Focus On Being Better

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Both are full of traffic.

Better to build your own and ride on that.

Stay Positive & Vroom Vroom

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