Life Lesson

Hassle is weight on our shoulders.

It’s usually a time-suck, too.

Inconvenience takes us away from focusing on creating the change we wish to make.

But so does the time we spend sulking on sunk costs of paying to have the hassle removed.

Paying, bartering or ridding ourselves of hassle is actually an investment.

When there’s only 24 hours in a day, it’s worth ensuring you can get the most of them.

Too much time is wasted DIY’ing things we don’t want to DIY or feeling regret for investing in someone else to do them for us.

Now that’s a real hassle.

Stay Positive & Only You Can Take The Weight Off Your Shoulders

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You don’t need to become a master, though that opportunity is as much yours as anyone else’s.

Getting better doesn’t even need to take a lot of work. You don’t need to exhaust yourself or completely reinvent your life.

It simply comes down to consistency of attempt with a mind that’s curious enough to either learn from a failure or to leverage the momentum of success.

Stay Positive & It Starts With Starting

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Milestones aren’t just memorable moments.

They are the points in time that people change the most. It’s the time that worldviews are easiest to change. Behaviors, too.

It’s why so many businesses are launched on holidays, goals are set on new year’s, fresh habits are attempted after one’s birthday.

It’s why we’re advertised to more when we get married or have a kid or buy a house. Those are the moments we are most susceptible to switching brands (which is really code for most likely to switch world views).

If it’s easiest to make a change for the better during a milestone, it makes sense to make our own milestones.

They don’t need to be big, but they need to exist. They give us a platform to leap from. It might mean we force a move or we designate our own holiday. It might even mean that we celebrate a self-designated day of starting.

Starting the work we’ve been procrastinating. Starting to change the behaviors we’ve been frustrated with upholding.

Simply starting.

Stay Positive & BYOM (Build Your Own Milestone)

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Downtime isn’t as effective as it sounds.

It enables competition to move forward beyond you. It leaves customers wondering what’s next or if you’ll even be back.

Far different than uptime. The investment we put in leveling up, proactively communicating and connecting on a new level.

Stay Positive & What Time Is It?

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There are a number of things in life that everyone needs. There’s literally a hierarchy to it, but that aside, there’s also a social and emotional space we all need, too – a reprieve.

A reprieve from the craziness of the world and the pressure we feel and the burdens we’re carrying.

Now more than ever people are searching for a specific reprieve. One that gives a sense of normalcy and care.

It might be a place or a person or a thing, but whatever it is, it’s something you might be able to offer and grow from.

Whether you’re leading a team, a personal brand, a small business or some other entity. What you served may not be the reprieve people need now.

A good place to (re)start is to (re)listen.

Stay Positive & Then Pivot And Build

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There’s the community that is your audience or your customer base or your target. No doubt they help keep your passion or brand going.

But no community can keep you going as strongly as a community of practice.

A group of people like us who do things a certain way. Maybe it’s a group who takes huge financial risks to share their craft with others. Maybe it’s a group that gets together to code websites for nonprofits. Maybe it’s a group that creates a yarn pool to share with one another.

These group members don’t have a stake in your business, but they have an influence on your identity, your growth and development and your mastery.

Without a community of practice, we can’t fathom leveling up. We need them. And likewise, they need us.

Avoiding finding and involving ourselves in communities of practice hurt others as much as it hurts ourselves.

Today is a great day to join a club, enter a group and contribute to a tribe of people like you.

p.s. If there isn’t one. Create one. You’ll be amazed at how many others are searching, too.

Stay Positive & They’re Waiting

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To-do lists are incredible. And when you prioritize or order them with the hardest tasks first; they’re even more powerful.

Little are any of us told, though, that they are most effective when they don’t end.

When we finish a to-do list, our brain ignites and we give it the perfect excuse to either wait until something is pressing or worry about all that we should be doing. (Waiting and worrying is a shameful act, btw.)

Better each day to add to the list up to the equal amount of items you were able to cross off the list.

Two amazing things will happen.

You’ll build momentum more than you have before, ultimately making the starting of tasks easier and easier.

You’ll feel more fulfilled than you have before, seeing just how much you’re capable of accomplishing. After all, a growing list of 30 is no doubt going to make you feel better about your contribution than a small list of 5 that you toss and forget, only to start a new list of 5 a week from now.

So go ahead and keep the list running.

Stay Positive & Laundry Might Be Done, But There’s More Worth Doing

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