Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
The easy-to-find joy is in the moments of progress and achievement and forward leaps.
Opening your doors, launching a new product, and hiring someone all bring a special feeling of joy.
Those moments, however, are short-lived, because after them it’s back to the race.
Better to search for the joy in planning and in clean-up, in prep and in reflection, in lining up the ducks and in collecting them all over again.
Stay Positive & You’ll Enjoy The Marathon More This Way
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By doing more, we often reap more rewards.
But it’s worth questioning who we are doing more for.
Some brands do more for themselves. They might see some rewards in the near future for it, but no chance they’ll be sustained.
Other brands, the one’s we’re loyal to, do more for us, the customer. They’re in it for the long haul (and we are, too, if they keep treating us well).
When it’s time to consider a new tactic, special, event, happy hour, product; it’s worth asking who it’s for.
Stay Positive & If It’s For Them, Carry On
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Sometimes it comes from thinking about a friend.
Other times it’s about proving myself right.
Sometimes it’s forced. I fake it. I show up until motivation does.
Other times it’s because I formed a habit and don’t really need motivation. I just do what I’ve done for the thousandth time.
Sometimes I source it from a vision I have for who I want to be and the story I want to tell.
Other times it’s from being pissed off.
Sometimes it’s to impress someone who might never even know.
Other times it’s from coffee or a podcast.
Point is: Motivation isn’t sourced from one place.
Stay Positive & Find (Or Make) Yours
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In an effort to race to the top, there are two boxes to check at any point in time.
Are you making the work better?
Are you making someone else’s life easier?
Check those two boxes in every action and you’re sure to end up on top.
Stay Positive & See You There
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They’re powerful. They can make or break someone’s spirit (even our own).
Just as important are the words we don’t use. When we keep quiet.
It’s an art. We learn by using them … or not.
The important part is the learning.
Stay Positive & Speak, Learn, Repeat
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The best kind of marketing happens with voice.
Not the Alexa and Google kind of voice.
But the face-to-face voice.
The moment you have with someone who asks why you’re doing what you’re doing, how you got started, where you hope to go or how they can help?
Stay Positive & Ready To Answer
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When you start driving, you never avoid the first pothole.
It’s new to you, unexpected and if you’re driving alone, you might get pissed that you hit it. If you’re driving with others, you’ve gotta deal with their feedback, too.
Fortunately, that’s just the first pothole. After that, it’s pretty rare that you’ll hit a second. You know to allow yourself enough reaction time, to look for it and you don’t want others critiquing your skills again. You’ll show them.
The same can be said for the first curb you ride over, the first yellow light you see if you can make it through, the first parallel park job, the first steep hill you have to break in the middle of, the first time you try to pass another vehicle that’s not going as slow as you thought …
It’s pretty clear we get better as drivers when we have more firsts and when we learn from them.
Same can be said for any act, really.
Stay Positive & So What Do You Do, Again?
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