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No one wants information shoved down their throats.

The car salesman that gives you their whole backstory along with the latest deals they have and promos before you’ve even told them what you’re there for comes to mind.

But making it so there’s no information whatsoever is no bueno either.

The restaurant that forgoes training their staff on the backstory or to communicate to customers how they can and shoulder order or, ya know, skips signage that indicates where the bathrooms are comes to mind.

The key then is to have the information at the ready – but make it optional. Signage is one way. Either read it or don’t. Asking questions like, “is this your first time here?” also helps.

Stay Positive & Have It Available And Make It Easy

You could keep following up to your lead. Again. And again. And again. And again.

If reading those words that many times is annoying isn’t it?

Better to air on the side on consistency.

Consistency showing up with something of value. Again. And again. And again. And again.

Even reading those words you felt a bit lighter because you know there was at least some value you’d get out of it each time.

Stay Positive & Persist With Consistency, Perhaps

Life isn’t like a scale in which we can place an item on the left and an item on the right and it will stay balanced.

Even when we find equilibrium, it’s only temporary.

Too many outside forces. Too many internal desires. Too much life happens.

The fortunate part of it is that you can choose which way the scale tips when it’s out of balance.

Such is life, really.

You have the option to over communicate more the under communicate; to lift someone up more than shame them; to listen more than you speak; to act selflessly more than selfishly.

Yes, in a perfect world, there’s a perfect balance.

But we don’t live in a perfect world. (And if you’re like me, you don’t want to.)

Stay Positive & You Control Which Way The Scale Tips

To make progress, you don’t always have to leap for yourself.

In fact, leaping for someone else may be the better move in the end.

You’ll get everything you want in life if you help enough others get what they want.

When it’s about them, it makes the leaping less scary, doesn’t it?

Stay Positive & The Running Start Is Yours

If you’re going to have a regret, would you rather it be for an action you took or for standing still?

If you’ve got an extra 30k to invest in your marketing, would you put it toward a new action or more of the same thing you’ve done?

If you’ve got the hots for someone, which do you think is more productive: asking them on a date or waiting for them to ask you?

Every day. Every moment. The option is ours. The choice to act or not.

Stay Positive & Why The Hesitation When You Know Which Is Better?

Did you experience it? Actually experience it?

What did it smell like? What did it sound like? What did it feel like…physically? emotionally? mentally?

In your words, how would you describe it?

Not being able to readily answer the questions begs one: did you actually experience it?

Stay Positive & In Means All In

All three of those words typically lead to disappointment.

But they don’t have to.

Not to that high of a level of disappointment.

Consider the beer bar that puts a sign on the empty shelf stating “fresh options coming Thursday” versus just leaving the shelf empty. Disappointing, maybe still, but now there’s something to look forward to.

Joking to a mother saying the goblins ate all the sugar waffle cones to ease the disappointment of her child who came in wanting one made all the difference to their experience. Disappointed still, yes, but no tears.

The level of disappointment we create is a choice.

Best we plan for how we’ll act when a delivery never arrives, when something spoils, when we’re late to an important gathering and so on.

Stay Positive & Think Of It Like A New Way To Prepare For The Worst