Life Lesson

While what’s important is that you’re in front, next to or with people, you’re sending a very different signal with your posture.

If you’re in front of them, you’re serving them, you’re listening, you’re giving them your all.

If you’re next to them, you’re helping them serve, you’re listening for how you make their life easier, you’re giving them your all so they can give their all to others.

If you’re with them, you’re serving together, listening together, giving together.

All postures are important, but there’s a reason “we” is more powerful than “me.”

Stay Positive & Who Are You With Today?

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Having all three isn’t necessarily the recipe for success or proof of an accomplishment.

But it’s certainly rare to build something meaningful without at least one of them.

Stay Positive & Still Up For It?

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Momentum sounds like it comes natural.

If we just show up, momentum does, too.

But it’s not true. Momentum takes hard work.

Momentum without force behind it never gets easier.

Momentum without resistance leads to a snowball effect that will hurt your mission more than help it.

Build the momentum, but then know you will need to manage it; it’s not a self-maintained law.

Stay Positive & It’s A Beauty When It’s Managed, Though

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Extra time can do a lot for us.

It can be what we need to make the right connection with someone or ignite the right conversation.

It can be what we need to add the polish on our work or put a bow on it.

It can also be what we need to celebrate a win before it’s onto the next thing.

No one gives us extra time, though. We have to carve it out ourselves.

Stay Positive & Extra Extra

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You can answer the question with a task or process or job description.

Or you can answer it with a template that puts the focus not on you, but on others.

What do you do?

I help X do Y.

What do you do?

I help breweries thrive … children recover from poor parenting … neighbors discover a new flavor ….

All meaningful work comes from helping others. So who are you helping? How?

That’s the answer people want to hear and connect with.

Stay Positive & Let’s Try It Again, What Do You Do?

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The lemon law is simply another way to give yourself permission to avoid sunk costs.

The sooner you leave something that’s dragging you down, the sooner you plug the hole in the boat, the sooner you say no; the better.

The law exists for a reason.

Because it works.

Stay Positive & Don’t Let The Sunk Costs Sour You Up

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Budgeting and cash flow

Increasing demand

Adding unexpected value

Growing others (and yourself)

Preparing for hardship

Preparing for success

Remembering why you’re doing what you’re doing

Stay Positive & It Might Be Worth Keying In On That Last One

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