Life Lesson

What can you do today that future you will thank you for?

What can you do for your target market that the future prospect of yours will thank you for?

What can you do right now that the future partner of yours will appreciate you for?

The funny thing about foundation is the best time to lay it is in the future.

Stay Positive & Today’s A Good Day For Tomorrow

It’s no fun when life creates a void for you to fill up.

But overcoming those moments are far easier to do if you make the habit of creating voids for yourself first.

Go ahead and remove yourself from that group project that’s eating at your soul. Hang up the hat to the social organization chair position you’re holding. Cancel your Netflix subscription. Remove Instagram from your phone.

If you get in the habit of closing doors (obviously, with the logic that another will open for you), it becomes easier to find new open doors when life shuts one on you unexpectedly.

Stay Positive & You Can Turn It Into A Habit (And Move Forward Faster)

It’s rare that anyone is giving it their all. There are too many reasons not to. First and foremost it’s far safer to hold a bit in reserve for when we truly need it. That’s natural.

Then there’s all the “un-natural” reasons of fear and willpower and distractions and additions.

All of which rarely have anything to do with the project at hand.

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I recently heard a story about a couple who has sort of a rule in the house. If they raise their voices at eachother, it’s never really about the thing they are raising their voices about.

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All to say, to unlock full capacity and get a little more out of your team or yourself, you need to work outside of the project you’re wanting a little bit more attention to.

Stay Positive & It’ Oxymoronic, Sure, But It Works

It’s impossible to reach everyone.

It’s ineffective to reach no one.

So you have two options to get to your target market.

Who are the some that matter?

Or who are you ruling out?

Of course, it’s quite effective to work on both.

Stay Positive & Get To The Center

Someone was giving advice to those who have been laid off to not fall in love with a company because there’s always that unpredictability.

I simply don’t agree. You ought to love the company you’re working for. You’re investing a significant amount of your week to it.

Would you hold back with your passion projects? Would you hold back with your significant other?

Rather than not love the company…get better at breakups and moving forward.

Best not to diminish the emotional impact you can have for the fact of impermanence.

Stay Positive & Keep Giving It Your All

You’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.

Or maybe it’s 1 person.

Or the last 20 people you spent time with.

Of course, the number doesn’t matter as much as the people.

Stay Positive & Quality Over Quantity

“What’s a significant impact you’ve made?” will tell you more than “Send me your resume.”

“How do you do it all?!” is more telling then “What’s your morning routine?”

Open-ended questions are the powerful ones.

So powerful, in fact, they’re worth asking ourselves rather than waiting to be asked.

What do you want your legacy to be?

How have you improved someone’s life?

What’s the biggest leap in experience you’ve made for yourself?

Stay Positive & Know Thy Self