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A culture of work and business success will lose its momentum if there aren’t a series of reminders of what it stands for. Reminders for people who have heard them before. Reminders for the newbies involved in your mission. Reminders of what you stand for and where you’re going.

A culture of work and business success will lose its momentum if there aren’t any celebrations around what it stands for. Celebrations when milestones related to the mission are reached. Celebrations when someone exudes company values. Celebrations around company-specific holidays.

A culture of work and business success will lose its momentum if it doesn’t lead by example. Actively and ongoingly making actions that align with it’s mission. Actively and ongoingly supporting efforts that resonate with its core values. You get the idea here.

A successful culture of work and business needs all three.

Stay Positive & Carry On With Your Trifecta

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We might not have to wait for videos to buffer so much anymore, but we shouldn’t forget the lesson doing so taught us.

To account for the buffer time.

In setting up the video chat and running into tech issues. In driving to your destination and not being surprised when there’s an accident that slows it up. When out on a date and running into an old friend on the street who you want to catch up with.

When you account for a little extra time in any endeavor, you undoubtedly remove the amount of stress and frustration you’ll feel along the way as you inevitably experience, hurtles, setbacks, distractions, etc.,

It’s incredible the difference in levels of stress one experiences between buffering that is anticipated or accounted for against one that is a surprise and unwanted.

Help yourself out and account for the buffering.

Stay Positive & It’s All Good (After We Realign Our Expectations)

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You can likely riff your top three competitors.

But what about the 25th?

50th?

100th?

It’s quite incredible how one can learn something from a competitor that, at face value, might be so removed from your geography or your line of service or your customer base.

Sure, study up and learn how to have an advantage over your main three.

But don’t stop sourcing improvements there.

The winners will be the ones who keep learning what they can from all who they can – even if it’s learning what not to do.

Stay Positive & Be A Winner

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A poorly built foundation, painted, polished and finished always leads to failure, bad reviews, unnecessary stresses and disappointment.

An expert, well-thought out foundation without any fit and finish rarely catches on, leads to people seeing the value or turning a profit.

A playbook without heart, intuition and personalization might work temporarily.

A eye-catching shiny object might get some short-term sales.

But to truly excel, the foundation has to be built strong and then it needs to have a layer of finish on it.

That means you need to learn how to lead your project with both in mind or delegate the half you’re not interested in investing your time on. No shame in that whatsoever.

Stay Positive & Fit Then Finish

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It’s not an question to be answered with words.

It’s a question to be answered with action.

The next time you use the question “why” to stall doing the work, add a “not” to it.

Why not do this? Why not send that? Why not book it?

No answers required. Just doing.

Stay Positive & The Answer Is In The Action

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There’s so much change and it happens so quickly that there are really only two positive and productive stances to take.

The first is to be the change; to promote the change; lead the change. The decisions we make each and every day can, over time, shift our culture.

This one is the obvious one. No news here.

The second is to accept the change; to flip the switch in our brains and see the justified argument about why we are wrong about how we have thought about something.

This is much… much harder.

We’re a little more primed to create change than we are to accept it, but both have equally beneficial results.

Stay Positive & Either Way, Forward Movement

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The way to be attentive during the meeting? Keep your email off.

The way to engage in more meaningful conversation with your significant other? Turn your phone off.

The way to focus more on the work you’re doing? Silent your notifications.

You’re one click, one close, one power button away from better work when it matters.

Stay Positive & Stop The Distractions

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