Life Lesson

Uncaring people are all around.

You’ve probably interacted with one today.

Uncaring people can certainly tear us down. They can create hiccups in our work. They can also hurt the people we care about.

But at some point we realize that it’s a choice of ours to let them ruin our mood or work.

Their lack of empathy can’t stop us from feeling good about ourselves or the work we’re doing.

We were never meant to spend more time on uncaring people than on ourselves.

If you find yourself doing so, it’s time to turn the dial.

Stay Positive & Be Your Own Cheerleader

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Your problem might not be so difficult that general knowledge can’t solve it.

It’s likely that there’s a simple solution.

Likely that it only takes some common sense matched with consistency and time.

Our problems aren’t as unique as we deem them. Doing so gives us an excuse to mull them over far longer than necessary.

Why? Because we know once one problem is solved another will take its place.

Lest we forget, a working knowledge, some peer feedback and listening to who you’re trying to serve can solve that problem, too.

And likely the next. And the next. And the next.

Stay Positive & No Need For Fancy Widgets And Specialized Advice

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Can you be it?

The first to fill the void. First to ask a question. First to try to understand.

First to suggest an answer to a problem. First to show love. First to connect on a feeling.

How about the first to take an action rather than waiting to be told what to do.

Empathy is a skill.

Stay Positive & Exercise It Often

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There’s plenty to be done in advance of the actual work.

Establishing what your KPI is. Getting buy-in from stakeholders. Doing the research and reading the books. Listening and learning from the target.

When you think of all that can and ought to be done before the work actually starts, it makes you wonder how you can create anything meaningful without it.

They call it an advance because it gives you the advantage.

Who wouldn’t want that in something that will make a difference?

Stay Positive & Prep Time Will Always Exceed Creation And Launch Time

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Flaunting doesn’t do much for others. Perhaps a spectator or two will appreciate it, but flaunting is not a means to a meaningful impact.

Better to use it if you’ve got it.

Stay Positive & Maybe Even Use It For Others

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Juggling should be left to jugglers.

Juggling in business, in projects, in tasks undermines the work at hand and the impact at stake.

Better to take one meaningful step at a time toward the same goal and table the others until they can have your undivided attention.

This goes for guests at a farmer’s market, client work, family and so on.

What’s more is that juggling in those contexts isn’t a skill; it’s a cop out to feeling like you’re moving the needle. Reality might be that we are, but not in a meaningful way; not in a way that the guest at the farmer’s market feels seen, like the client feels your heart in their work, like your family means something to you.

Leave the juggling to jugglers.

Stay Positive & Focus = Meaningful Impact

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What you had to stop doing to give your guest attention … it doesn’t matter to them.

The long task list you have for the day … it doesn’t matter to them.

That there’s another guest who just came in looking to be helped … it doesn’t matter to them.

Now that we have that out of the way. It’s time to focus in and deliver on what the guest does want.

Do that every time and your business will be set for life.

Stay Positive & Shrug Off What Doesn’t Matter To Them

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