Life Lesson

Even if every action you took during the day was part of a positive habit, it couldn’t stay.

The world continues to change around us, as does the culture. There are more people changing than they are not – no matter how hard we try to be in the group of not.

So, those daily habits, those regular positive behaviors may need to shift.

The challenge for any optimizer then isn’t what to replace it with, but how to shape a habit differently to fit the new (soon to be better?) reality.

Stay Positive & No Answer, Just Adventure

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It’s not typical, but it happens.

It happens when we rush, when we take shortcuts, when we talk more than listen and when we maintain ourselves with busy work instead of meaningful work.

It feels like progress – and it is – but not in the direction we may want.

Stay Positive & Gut Check Your Actions

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There are two books in my life that were by far the worst books I’ve read to date. They were far below my expectations and I didn’t learn much from either one of them.

Yet, they were part of what got me to where I am today, and today is a good day.

It can be easy to hate on elements of our past and let them sour our present.

It’s far more worth it to appreciate the present, though, and understand the past trials and tribulations were what got us here.

Stay Positive & Here Is Good, Isn’t It?

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There are actions you can take that may seem like a disruption to your flow, but are ultimately beneficial to the work at large.

If you’re struggling on a task, take a walk around the block.

If you’re getting lost in a monotonous process, have a drive by conversation with someone nearby.

If you’ve found your flow, pause and take a deep breath to actually appreciate it.

Stay Positive & Break A Habit For The Better

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As a kid I would get random pains and aches in my gut or in my knee. They were uncalled for and totally temporary. But I thought I was the only one to experience them so they felt more severe than what they were.

Everyone has inevitable discomforts, though. We all experience odd tweaks and moments of displeasure. We all put ourselves in pickles and tip over pints. We all have odd muscle spasms and headaches we can’t explain.

The best we can do is seek the comfort in the discomfort; in knowing we’re not alone; in understand that someone has felt the discomfort the same as us and made it through. And we can, too.

Stay Positive & Keep On Going

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The odds are not in your favor.

Not to mention, being a winner is easy.

How you lose makes all the difference.

Even more important than how you act when no one is looking.

Stay Positive & With Your Chin Up

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There’s a difference between work that is putting the finishing touch on something and work to perfect it.

Certainly, the line is moving and tricky to place, but once you find it, you can relieve yourself from the duty to perfect the work (because it won’t actually ever be perfect).

Letting go of perfection, however, is not an excuse to leave the polish off the work. The finishing touch not only matters to those the work is for, but it matters for your own fulfillment.

It simply feels good to ship something you know has the finishing touch on it.

After all, the touch shows others simply how much you care, whereas perfectionism delays you from shipping the product–and if you can so easily delay, is it really so important for others to have it?

Stay Positive & Ship It (But With A Coat Of Polish)

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