Life Lesson

When you’re out of energy, it can be hard to do the thing you know you should be doing.

And when you’re full of energy, you may rather be doing fun things instead of the thing you know you should be doing because you finally have the energy!

The same can be written for time and passion and help.

Those who successfully turn a commitment into a habit aren’t the ones who have all the energy, time, passion and help, though.

They’re simply the ones who show up whether or not motivation does, too.

Stay Positive & It’s Only On You (Always Has Been)

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There’s a tough type of time to lose.

It’s not time lost relaxing or time given to friends (heck, you might be bright enough not to consider that time lost at all).

But time spent standing still, ruminating on decisions – we lose more than just time when we do that.

Every moment we’re not making a decision and taking action, there’s an opportunity cost of time lost.

If you take three months to decide to quit and start a new job, the opportunity cost is three months of having invested building your skills at the new job.

If you take a week to decide to submit for a speaking engagement, the opportunity cost is a week of others submitting themselves to speak and getting priority.

If you take more than five minutes to introduce yourself to someone beautiful at the coffee shop, the opportunity cost is that you’re more likely than ever to chicken out.

The best way to combat the opportunity costs of time is to set a deadline for yourself, and if you don’t meet the deadline, let it go.

Time spent agonizing and regretting a decision not made is just as bad as time lost with indecision, if not more.

Stay Positive & Onward

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Three questions to ensure the work you’re doing is worth doing.

1. Are you clear on what you want out of the work you’re putting in?
2. Is the energy for the work sourced from a target insight?
3. If no results occur, would you still feel good about what you did?

Stay Positive & Tough Questions, But Meaningful Answers

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It’s always going to be better to put humanity at the start.

Don’t save the personal touch for the end. Don’t hold off acknowledging we’re in a connection economy. Don’t wait to bump fists.

Stay Positive & Start With The Good Stuff

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We forget how we had taken a hundred little steps to reach a milestone.

We forget how gratifying being selfless is with new customers after we have a few.

We forget that haste makes waste and we should take a breath and read the email once more before hitting send.

We forget to enjoy the struggle, understanding it’s a journey.

There are a lot of important lessons and perspectives we forget to hold close.

Perhaps it’s time for a “remember” list as much as it is another “to-do” list.

Stay Positive & Top Of Mind

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Downfalls don’t happen over night; it’s a slow trickle.

A corner gets cut here or you skip a day of posting there. You show up a bit later than planned or you cut things off early.

You let your website get old or you try to stretch your goods rather than ordering a fresh batch.

You leave before saying thanks and goodbye.

Drip by drip.

The same can be said for big wins and success trajectory.

A little more effort, attention, connection, care here and a little more generosity, mindfulness, passion there.

You dole out high-fives and you post content with heart behind it.

You collaborate with your neighbors and you ask for feedback from customers.

Stay Positive & Drip Drip

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There’s plenty of learning you can have prior to a launch, but there’s a threshold.

There’s also a difference in the type of learnings and the return on those learnings before and after a launch.

Do the prep work necessary to GO, but understand there’s always a point when the learning after launch is more valuable than the learning before launch.

Every teacher, ecommerce business and brand get the most learning after they start teaching, start selling and start connecting.

Stay Positive & You’re Not Waiting Are You?

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