Life Lesson

The first step on the path to any solution for any problem is awareness of the problem, right?

So why don’t you have a list of signs that indicate a problem (especially a reoccurring one)?

Is the sign you’re working too much that you forgo working out in the morning?

Is the sign you’re not investing enough in your partner that you haven’t had dinner together in a week?

Is the sign that you’re emotionally stressed that you get a migraine?

The beautiful part about listing your signs is that they provide instant accountability for you to enforce a change in your habit when you see them.

Stay Positive & Help Yourself Help Your Self

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It’s easy to add things to your schedule, to spend your time, to watch a few hours fly by at the blink of your eye.

Much more difficult to face our own reality of how we use our time.

For too many (myself included) and too often, we try to erase our memory of what we wasted our time on.

But when we don’t hide. When we mark and see and respond to it, we can make better decisions going forward.

The way we feel fulfilled at the end of the day isn’t a matter of how much we create or invest or do in the day; it’s about how content we are with how we invested our time.

Stay Positive & Time To Keep Track

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Confidence doesn’t permit us to lead.

Leading is what gives us confidence.

Stay Positive & Let’s Roll

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We learn when we stretch and we stretch when we ask tough questions.

But don’t be flabbergasted when after you ask and answer the questions, that more arrive.

As Bernadette Jiwa has written, “the path to success is progressive and iterative.”

We need to keep our courage after answering tough questions to ask even more.

Stay Positive & Might As Well Enjoy The Ride

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Nearly everything on your to-do list can be done at half the time you expect.

We often blow the investment out of proportion because it gives us the chance to cop out of doing the work right now.

“It’s going to take too much time, so I’ll do it later.”

“I don’t have the hour of focus to do the task.”

“It’s going to take me too long to catch up on the email chain.”

It’s simply not true.

And rather than argue it. Go ahead and start the task you think you don’t have time for and see what happens.

Stay Positive & It’s Time We Stop Using Time To Hide From The Work

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Anyone with a passion can be viewed as a little weird.

If you have some fans that others label as such.

It’s a sign you’re onto something.

They clearly have a passion for your passion.

Stay Positive & Embrace ‘Em (It’s How You Build A Tribe)

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Don’t  you want to know why the color red is different on one screen than another?

Don’t you want to know what the deadliest drug in the U.S. is?

Don’t you want to know what goes into the selection of product at Trader Joe’s?

Don’t you wonder why people still top off their car tank?

Curiosity can be a wonderful thing.

Sure, we learn because of it, but we can also connect around it.

Stay Positive & What Have You Been Curious About?

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