Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Whether or not there’s something for you to lose isn’t the right rationale to perform (or not) from.
After all, the change you seek to make isn’t about you, it’s about others.
Before you back down from doing something that’s scary but you know is right in your heart of heart’s, remember what the world has to gain when you lean in.
Stay Positive & It’s A Lot, I’m Sure
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It’s a beautiful moment when you are yourself in a conversation, but then someone brings up something you’re passionate about or asks a question on the topic.
Something switches.
Vision narrows, dopamine’s released, excitement courses through you as you share your thoughts.
You share deeply and strategically and you say (and feel) it with confidence.
When we experience the switch, we know two things have happened.
The second is extremely important.
It’s not that we’ve disregarded being wrong or that we’re stuck in our own ways.
It’s that we’ve learned enough in the past and understand that being wrong again will only make us smarter. And we do this because of 1. We truly care.
Stay Positive & When Have You Last Experience The Switch?
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To be the one who has to rally toward a goal … It’s stressful, taxing, and draining. We rally when there’s a deadline in front of us or when we don’t want to lose.
It’s equally not fun for those on your team. It’s an uncomfortable spot to see that you’re behind and know anything we do might not help you successfully rally.
For spectators, though, they love a rally.
Consider the 4-point comeback of the Sharks the other night or watching mini sail boat races on the water or a new business opening up down the street.
It’s fun to watch someone need to rally if they’re going to make it. The wind has to align, the team needs to be in lock-step, the business needs to care – it’s like a movie.
But your mission isn’t to produce spectators, your mission is to build a team and succeed in your own goals. And to do that, we have to thrash early so we don’t have to rally in the final hour.
Thrashing is energizing, uplifting and collaborative. Very different than rallying.
Stay Positive & Thrash Early, Thrash Often
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If you’re passionate about something, you’re bound to get too far into it.
And it’ll happen in either one or two ways.
Either the creativity will take precedence, you’ll be dreaming way outside of the realm of feasibility, you’ll be setting yourself up for failure by promising too much and you’ll break the borders of practicality and familiarity.
Or… or… you’ll have built your box, created too small of a promise, set risk aside and followed a simple recipe and everything is there to meet spec rather than to surprise and delight.
When we’re too far in, either we’re overly rational or overly irrational.
The hard work is to dance on both sides when pursuing a passion.
Do what works, sure, but also do what might not.
Stay Positive & Back And Forth, Art And Science, Yin And Yang
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Here’s why new is better.
New pushes you into areas you’ve never experienced before, places you may excel and places you may fail (but have the opportunity to learn from).
New means you’ll never have to rest on your mistakes and you can get out while you’re up.
New is better because it undoubtedly connects you with other people and trains you to empathize.
New is better because better is better.
Stay Positive & What’s New?
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We can be quick to say that we’ve got the wrong rock.
Or get frustrated because we’re the only one pushing it.
Or that we might have the wrong hill.
But more often than not …
It’s the right rock. The right hill. And we’ve got the right power to accomplish the task.
All we need to do is keep pushing.
Stay Positive & Keep Pushing
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People don’t want just a cup of coffee.
They don’t want just a streaming service.
They don’t want just a car wash.
It’s the same for those serving, too.
They don’t want to just serve a cup of coffee.
They don’t want to just support a streaming service.
They don’t want to give just wash a car.
Everyone wants meaning, and meaning comes through a sense of place and connection.
A heartfelt “hello” goes a long way for both parties.
A meaningful extra touch and a genuine interest in another’s story also goes a long way.
Stay Positive & More Meaning, Please
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