Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
We’ve made quite the left turn as a community, but that’s a good thing.
Left turns are exciting. They keep people engaged, invested and in conversation.
Left turns make us feel in control even if everything is uncertain.
Left turns can be surprising, but they bring good energy because we often don’t make a left turn alone–we have others with us.
Stay Positive & (Unless We’re Talking About Nascar….)
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“Is this going to change when this is over?”
Of course it’s going to change, but two things:
It’s not going to go be back to how things were before all of this. It can’t. It won’t. We all got a taste of what remote work, digital evolution, free time, unemployment, etc. is like. Some have found they can make these drastic shifts work and others who are going to overcorrect once able. We’re excited get closer to how things were, but still different.
It’s also not going to stay the same. The way we’re working, interacting socially, eating and supporting businesses isn’t sustainable. It also carries a negative weight because of the reason we’re working this way in the first place. Remote work will be dialed back, we’ll have fewer digital happy hours and we’ll all get back to striving than surviving. We’re excited to make it ours again.
Hearts are opening around what we can do with our current situation.
I’m excited to see how our hearts open up with how we’ll carry forward when the choice ours again.
Stay Positive & I Repeat, Stay Positive
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Fresh air helps.
You may not see as many people out there, but there’s still plenty to see; simply look up when walking.
A mental break can be beneficial to working through a challenge or to become content with a situation.
You may not need help or a fancy tool or to “just deal with it.”
A walk may be all you need.
Stay Positive & The Sun Just May Start Shining, Too
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Control can be a good thing. And there’s more that we can take control over than we often think.
We can take control over our emotions and feelings.
Our thoughts, too.
We can take control of learning something new, teaching someone something. We can take control over finding out how to add more value to our communities. We can take control over helping others.
Control is there. We just need to take it.
Stay Positive & Go Ahead, We’re Waiting For You
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Now more than ever we’re seeing the brands that clearly created an abundance of value before they were forced to temporarily close or shift all interactions online/delivery.
We’re all faced with asking ourselves, “Would we miss this if it were gone?” And if the answer is yes, we’re supporting the business however we can.
The reality is that the businesses that are being supported now are the ones who had been asking the question to themselves from the git-go. “Would they miss this if it were gone?”
All the more reason to bake the value-add in sooner than later. When “later” hits, it might just be too late. And we’re about to see what that looks like in the coming weeks for businesses that put it off.
No need to sign off asking you to support those you care about; no doubt you already have because you know “I’d miss this if it were gone.”
Stay Positive & Pivot Now If Needed
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Whether we’re thinking the worst of things or the best, we’re choosing our thoughts.
We can choose to keep thinking about the ones that bring us down or the ones that bring us up.
We can choose the thought, how long we think it, how much energy we put behind it.
If you don’t like a thought, send it away.
Stay Positive & Choose Wisely
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Sometimes we’re the ones who feel the craze, the hardship, the heat.
Other times, we see others feeling it while we’re level-headed and nose to the grind.
The problem, of course, isn’t the craze or the ebb or the thrashing; it’s how we handle it; it’s the feeling.
Work through the feeling and the craze disappears. Or at least dance with it so you can keep doing the work we need you to do.
One of the many keys to successful work is the ability to keep your head on your shoulders while all those around you are losing theirs.
Notice the feeling and carry on.
Stay Positive & You Might Just Set A Trend
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