Life Lesson

Life really isn’t that long after you factor in all the time you spend eating, sleeping and going to the bathroom.

That being said, you could complain about how little time there is–that it’s unfair there isn’t enough time to try more things (because there isn’t).

It seems the world wants you to focus on one thing for each area of your life for your entire life.

That’s why there are professions and marriages and passions.

That’s why it takes years to get good at any of them, and no doubt failure will be felt if we try to do too many different things.

With so little time, if you’re going to do something, it’s not just a matter of doing it right; it’s a matter of giving it your everything.

If you’re not in it to be the best, then its best to reconsider how you’re investing your finite time.

It’s not fair, but we need you to shrug it off and give it your everything.

 

Stay Positive & You Can Look Back At Things At The End

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You can make your business open to special requests, embrace them and over deliver on them.

Then again, it’s completely reasonable to forgo them if you’re focused on tightening your time investment, cutting costs and keeping your banal offerings, banal.

In a time where there are commodities everywhere, no one will bat an eye when you don’t offer a special request.

Then again, everyone will look at you with awe when you do.

 

Stay Positive & What’ll It Be For You?

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There are so many apps on your phone to help you improve your photos, but in reality you’re better off spending your money on a better camera.

There’s a lot of different shapes and sizes of glassware that can elevate your drinking experience, but it’s far smarter to purchase better quality beer.

You have plenty of perks, building designs and software options to help your organization succeed, but nothing will be a better investment than attracting and choosing the right people.

 

Stay Positive & What’s Your Foundation?

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It’s likely rare that a day doesn’t go by that you don’t feel anger or frustration.

Chances are even better that it’s the same for all of those around you.

Next time you notice your temperature rising or a touch of irritance, pause to find it in others.

Two things will happen.

One: You gain a sense of relief. Every emotion, not just misery, loves company and when we start to empathize with others, it makes us more comfortable with the emotions we’re feeling, no matter if it’s sadness or madness.

Two: It becomes about them and when it becomes about them an opportunity arises for you. What can you do to relieve their frustration?

As ol’ Zig would say, “You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want in life.”

 

Stay Positive & Training Starts Now

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In your head, you talk to yourself 500 times faster than you talk out loud.

And just as quickly, your lizard brain fires up.

That’s what you’re up against every time an opportunity presents itself.

In the past, I’ve written about you having 30 seconds to act before the lizard brain starts feeding you reasons not to, reasons to back down, reasons to pass.

Reality is that 30 seconds is generous.

 

Stay Positive & Act Fast

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Storyselling is a lot like storytelling, but with the obvious intention of making a sale.

Many a marketer may claim it can’t be done. Selling and story are separate, they’d say.

This may have well been the case early on in advertising when the sales team never talked to the marketing department.

Alas, now they’re combined and we must effectively tell the brand story while selling a product.

Without products being sold, stories can’t be told.

Without stories being told, no products will be sold.

The benefit of time is now at the wayside. As marketers, we have to work harder than ever before to combine what matters for the target (story) with what matters to the brand (sale).

 

Stay Positive & Exciting, Isn’t It?

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You could dumb it down, turn your project into a to-do list any gruntworker could complete.

You can make it so your business just needs cogs, people who check the box and complete A and B while others complete C and D.

You can convert it into an assembly, compete on price and outsource all the work.

On the other hand, you could also care more, invest more in the long haul and personalize every element of it.

You could give more than you have, connect on a deeper level and listen more than any one would imagine you listening.

For some reason, people have been convinced that to scale you can’t be human, but imagine if you scaled being human?

What if you hired more people who care and who ask questions? What if you invested the time to personalize every outreach and package?

Scaling doesn’t always mean doing more with less, it can also mean doing more with more.

 

Stay Positive & It’s Not A One Or The Other Situation

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