Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
The world doesn’t specifically award people for doing this or doing that. In fact, the world is pretty rewarding to those who simply do.
You don’t need to know what to do, you just need to do.
Stay Positive & Something Is Better Than Nothing (The Whole World Is Watching)
Garth E. Beyer
What I love about runners, racecar drivers, swimmers, and any racer in general is that when they reach the finish line, they don’t stop. They zoom through it and then start to slow down.
Taking a finish line literally, it means you finish at the line, as in, you stop on the line. Why go past it if it’s the finish line? Taking it literally would mean that you need to slow down before you get to the finish line so you can stop on it.
In reality, that’s actually what a lot of people do. The closer they get to their goal, the slower they get. They want their step on the finish line to be perfect. Plenty of times over, the fear of success, the fear of it not being perfect, stops them from making it to the finish line. Once near it, they take a couple of steps back just to make sure they are doing everything right.
Don’t.
Find out where the finish line is drawn and run past it.
You don’t need to be a racer to live the concept of a finish line. Have a goal? Blow past it, slow down, and then evaluate. You will learn, adapt, and grow much quicker than if you stop before you finish just to evaluate something you havn’t completed.
Stay Positive & Let’s Race To Our Goals This Year (and by to, I mean past)
Garth E. Beyer
From time to time, we all say to ourselves, “From here on out, I’m going to make better/smarter/bolder choices.” Usually, we make a mistake and promise ourselves we won’t do it again.
A good percent of the time, we break those promises. We don’t make better choices, we just find a different way to make a wrong choice. And maybe that’s okay, maybe that still get’s us in the right direction or at least closer to it.
The real trigger to knowing you will make better choices is when you want to go back in the past to make them. It is only when you want to make better choices in your past, that your future choices are guaranteed to be better.
The future, that’s the scary part because the choices you want to make, well, you may not have to make them. The future may have something else in store for you.
To make better choices, you have to break the illusion that better choices come from the past or in the future. The only choice that matters right now is the one you’re currently making.
And if you’re choosing to dwell on the past or fear for the future, you’re not making better choices.
Stay Positive & Choose Wisely, Moment To Moment
Garth E. Beyer
It’s late. I’m tired. I have friends over. I want to just sit, relax, play brawl, and hangout.
But I’m not.
I’m at my laptop writing because I swore I would write one blog post a day. While what I’m writing may not be the most influential, its writing, it’s my resolution being fulfilled.
Most days we can go full force on completing our resolutions, other days, we have to remind ourselves that delivering something crappy is worth more than not delivering at all.
Stay Positive & Especially When We Are Delivering To Ourselves
Garth E. Beyer
There’s a problem with overserving, with overshipping, and with overcreating.
Do you know what a catalogue is? They used to be extremely popular because every week, month, or year, the catalogue would present everything new that is being sold. Yes, they would contain older products, but companies don’t send out catalogues to show you their old products, they send them to show you the new products.
A catalogue is the greatest 18th and 19th century way to overserve, overship, and demand overcreation. I’m going to let you in on a secret. The secret why catalogues have died off – it’s not because of the internet. No.
When people would receive catalogues, they looked at them to see what was new, but contrary to the seller’s belief, the consumer wasn’t looking to see what was new to buy it. The catalogue became a news source. All the consumer was left with after receiving a catalogue was wonderment with what the next catalogue could possibly contain.
Where does that leave the seller?
It’s neither positive or negative. The seller makes money as she always does.
The real person you should be questioning is the creator. Where does that leave her?
It’s a positive thing to serve, create, and ship with some form of regularity. However, when you overserve, overcreate, and overship, you produce the catalogue effect. Yes, people will value your work, but merely appearance wise. After you begin to deliver excessively, they will only be interested in what you will concoct up next. (Not what they will pay for next.)
Stay Positive & Creating More, Makes Your Audience Want More, But Not Spend More
Garth E. Beyer
It happens plenty of times over. Things don’t go your way. Typically, you get upset, frustrated, hurt, emotional, skeptical, hesitant, and any other negative emotion until the next day.
Your mind thinks, “Well, this sucks. Tomorrow better be a better day.” And of course, this most commonly happens in the morning or afternoon of the day – with plenty of time to turn the bad day around. But no. You’ve already decided that since something didn’t go your way, your entire day is ruined.
From plenty of experience, I’ve learned something remarkable. When things don’t go your way and you sort of ignore it, you will end up getting other tasks done you have wanted to do, or something positive happens – maybe a friend calls to share the news that she is pregnant and they have chosen you to be the godfather – and your day ends up being great.
The only reason days don’t end up great when something doesn’t go your way is when you acknowledge that you will then have a bad day because of it.
Dispute it all you want, but our days are naturally set to be good. It’s our mindset that alters that. Lucky for you, you have control over your mindset.
The easiest way to alter your mindset, to reset your day to naturally good, to give fate another shot when things don’t go your way, is to ignore that they didn’t.
Stay Positive & Carry On
Garth E. Beyer
