Life Lesson

We can earn forgiveness for our mistakes.

We can earn a helping hand after we fail.

We can earn forgiveness after we screw up.

We earn all that keeps us moving after being knocked down by standing up in the first place.

First we have to put ourselves out there.

Stay Positive & Give It A Go

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It’s one thing to get ready to rumble; to move forward; to take action.

But getting ready only to rumble won’t get you through the dip or the adversity you’ll face or the self doubt.

You’ve gotta get ready to tumble, too; to be knocked down and get back up; to face push back.

It doesn’t sound as cool to say “let’s get ready to rumble and tumbleeeee” but it’s important we do it.

Stay Positive & Hold Strong

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They want you to show up. See you. Know you’re paying attention to them. They want to feel your presence.

And then they want you to do it again tomorrow with just as much heart.

Stay Positive & Present, Then Consistent

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A neighbor over by us installed a wide-angle security camera so it could cover our yard in addition to theirs.

A business installed a free little library in their store and fills it with the books from another merchant up the street when it gets empty.

A customer of a bar brought the beertender a few cans of beer from an out-of-state brewery on top of what he already got for himself.

Business. Person. Entity. Customer. It doesn’t matter what capacity you’re in.

What matters is that when we care a little more, we all benefit.

Caring is work. But it’s work worth doing.

Stay Positive & A Little More Is All We Need

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Businesses right and left are beginning to go to sleep. Some permanently. Some temporarily. Some might be open, but are simply existing to exist, which is really another form of sleeping.

Here’s the reality of the sleepers. They might make it out on the other end the same as businesses that are acting on the current situation. Maybe.

But it doesn’t really matter, does it?

What matters is that if you’re open for business then you’re acting on it. Pivoting how you can. Continuing to connect with your tribe and your community in new ways. Advertising. Contributing. Owning it.

Stay Positive & Don’t Sleep On It

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If you focus and take action long enough toward the result you want, you’ll get it.

It might require you to take different actions than you thought you would.

It might require you to be subject to criticism for the actions you take to get the result.

It might require you to hold out through dip after dip, but you’ll get there.

Stay Positive & Keep At It

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The fear. Tension. Uncertainty.

It’s going to be there, and the smartest move you can make is not to try to make it disappear.

Those emotions can’t be willed away. No amount of reassurance can do it, either.

But they can be danced with. Acknowledged and appreciated because they are indicators that something meaningful is at work.

Stay Positive & The Fear Is A GOOD Thing

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