Life Lesson

A succession plan is smart, even if you haven’t started on your endeavor yet.

Like any plan, a succession plan is never truly set in stone. However, having one does two things.

1) It gets you in the mindset of success.

2) It makes it easier to stick to your decision of how to handle your success once you’re there.

Many are driven crazy once they’ve achieved what they set out to. Why? Because they’ve built a tribe that’s leaning on them.

Throughout your journey, you’re growing a following of people who expect you to act a certain way. You owe it to them to live to their expectations, not your in-the-moment, unplanned, selfish wants once you’ve reached your destination, right?

Do you sell your company to a conglomerate who you fought against to get started? Do you use funds to build more of what you’ve created or scrap it to start something entirely new? Would you plan to donate a percentage of profits after you meet a threshold? Would you give it all away for free?

It’s worth ruminating on what you’ll do if you succeed in the change you’re trying to make.

You may think what you’re creating now is your legacy, but more likely, it’ll be what you do with what you’ve succeeded at that makes all the difference.

 

Stay Positive & You Do Plan To Succeed, Right?

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It’s going to take time.

Effort, too.

Oh, and support … lots of support.

It’s going to be tough at times, and then tougher still.

It’s going to feel lonely and uncertain and uncomfortable.

This is what anyone who digs deep into something begins to experience.

It’s also what anyone who is making a greater change in the world experiences.

It comes with the territory, the edge, the change and the greater move you seek to make.

 

Stay Positive & Might As Well Embrace It

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You can be a people inspire-er

people influencer

people disturber

people changer

people diffuser

people supporter

You can also be family pleaser

self pleaser

tribe pleaser

boss pleaser

kid pleaser

team pleaser

The best thing about being a people pleaser is that you choose to be something else at anytime.

 

Stay Positive & What’s Today Looking Like?

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A quick way to get ahead of competition is to simply be better.

A quick way to be better is not to do more of what your competitors are already doing.

Rather, cut the time you’re doing what they are in half and invest it into doing what they aren’t.

I’d bet they’re not caring as much about people, quality or how it is delivered, whatever it is.

 

Stay Positive & It’ll Be What Makes You Different Without Falling Behind

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Of course we don’t want to let it go. It’s ours now. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad. We own it.

Letting it go means we would have to change, to be uncomfortable again.

Letting it go means there’s space for something new and maybe something worse.

So we hold on. We try to live with it. But over time. It weighs us down. We stand still.

And you know what happens to those who stand still.

 

Stay Positive & Let It Go To Move Forward

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Opportunities are out there. There’s no doubt about it.

Yes, even the very specific opportunities you would love to be offered.

Of course, opportunities have a bit of an ego problem. They’re not willing to come to you. Often times, they don’t even meet half way. In fact, they sometimes don’t feel like opportunities at all because you have to work so hard to get them.

But that’s the true opportunity. The opportunity to leap.

Most of the greatest projects you’ve seen people create have been because they looked around, reached out and took the leap.

I’ll be speaking at a few events in 2018 not because I’m sought after, but because I asked a few influential people if I could.

 

Stay Positive & Go. Leap. Pick Yourself.

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Frequency matters to people when it comes to keeping your promises.

Are you putting your energy into the things that you can do with frequency for a year, two, ten?

They need you to show up in the right place with the same message.

They want validation. You want trust.

You both win when you show up.

 

Stay Positive & Show Up Again … And Again … And Again

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