Life Lesson

Winning matters when you learned something along the way.

Winning time and time again without a lesson to learn on how to be better (or how to keep winning) either doesn’t compound or it exhausts itself. You can only do the same thing expecting the same results for so long.

Heck, sometimes it’s worth overextending yourself instead of repeating what works.

 

Stay Positive & Seek The Lessons

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There’s really no better way to learn.

It’s natural. It can happen more easily than saving enough up for a tuition or spending hours reading forums.

Of course, it does require you to do one thing.

Go.

 

Stay Positive & Lessons Await

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It could always be worse.

Could always be better, too.

But at least it is.

And is is good.

 

Stay Positive & Carry On

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There are markets and in markets, segments, and in segments, tribes and in tribes, teams and in teams, there’s a sliver.

When we stop trying to be more than a sliver, life gets easier, we nestle into our place and we do better work.

Back when I tried golfing, I would take the driver and whack at the ball as hard as I could. I wanted to be great. I wanted to impress my friends. I wanted a lot out of hitting a ball.

It wasn’t until I took a deep breath, let the momentum carry the ball and settled into my place that the ball began going the distance.

Effort isn’t a great measurement and force has a role, but not a critical one.

The better kind of effort is the emotional effort. Speaking to people like you. Doing things that feel effortless. Not trying to be more than you are or try impressing all the market.

Focus on your sliver. It’s all you and we need.

 

Stay Positive & Silver > Gold

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Curiosity killed the cat, but there is another part of the story.

Satisfaction brought it back.

We can choose to listen to a certain slice of a story and we can choose to tell ourselves only part of a narrative, but it’s short-changing and prevents us making a choice from a place of holistic reasoning.

The story you’re telling yourself right now … there’s another part of it if you choose to notice.

 

Stay Positive & Keeping Digging

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If the detail is causing you anxiety and stress and frustration and disappointment.

It might be worth letting the detail go.

There are other details that matter more.

Ones that involve generosity and others.

Details that bring joy and passion and a shared experience.

 

Stay Positive & Away From The Details That Hurt More Than Help

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Do they have everything they need?

Are they inspired enough to choose your project over another?

Is there a member that’s bringing the team down?

Are they fueled (literally and imaginatively)?

Do they know the deadline?

Do they trust one another?

Most work isn’t about you and it’s not about one person.

The great work, anyway.

 

Stay Positive & What Can You Do For The Team?

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