Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Here’s a list worth making: Things that fill you up.
You know, things that bring you joy, make you laugh or get you to feel fulfilled at the end of the day.
The next task is to do more on that list.
Here’s a list worth making: Things that drain you.
You know, complaining, reading click bait, surfing Twitter.
The next task is to do less on that list.
Stay Positive & Grab Your Cup And Let’s Get To Work
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Answers might be hard to find from time to time, but emotions? They’re a click away.
The ease of finding anger or frustration or sadness on the internet begs us to always be asking the question: what are we in search of?
If we’re finding emotions we don’t actually want; it’s time to change what we’re searching.
You’re just a couple clicks away from feeling better.
Stay Positive & Search And You Will Find
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To have ones work taken and built upon – it’s an honor.
Not an insult. Not theft.
They won’t come after you and try to destroy you for taking something that works and adding to it.
No.
If anything, they’ll thank you and awe at the fact you were able to build on their legacy.
Business plans. Spreadsheets. Meeting formats. Platforms. Websites.
There are thousands out there that work great.
Unless you’re in the business of reinventing the wheel – don’t.
Stay Positive & Keep Building
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Automation is magic.
Automatic email responses save you time. Automatically hiding notifications prevents you from getting distracted. Automatic ordering keeps your inventory at the right pace. Automatic labeling makes tracking fees on Quickbooks swift.
In a world where nearly anything can be automated, it’s important to decide what you’ll do with the free time you get from automation.
Will you make the work better? Invest in an un-automated idea? Spend more time with those you love?
Often times, if we don’t plan how we want to use the time and headspace saved from automation, we end up wasting it.
Stay Positive & Don’t Waste The Good Stuff
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If you read about something and then share it, there’s inherent layers of trust there.
If you had a friend have an experience and then you talk to others about it, there’s inherent layers of trust in what you say – more than if you read about the experience before sharing.
You can guess where I’m going with this.
The final layer of trust comes from having done the thing you’re talking to others about.
It’s about having practiced what you’re preaching; about having done the grunt work; about personally understanding on top of having read about it and talked to others about it.
It’s layers.
Layer 1: Do the homework.
Layer 2: Discuss with others.
Layer 3: Trial and error.
This applies from what meals you recommend, podcasts you join, meetings you run and projects you lead. Anywhere there’s trust; there are layers.
Stay Positive & For Complete Trust, You Need Every Layer
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There are the obvious things we check to ensure we have with us as we go from meeting to meeting or space to space.
Phone. Wallet. Keys.
Paperwork. Reference documents. A business card.
A website URL. A customer service number. A vendor recommendation.
Then there are the nonobvious things we bring with us from meeting to meeting or space to space.
Emotions. Attitudes. Energy. (Good… or bad depending on the meeting or space we just came from.)
A willingness to leap. A drive for excellence. A helping hand.
Like checking for your phone, it’s worth checking to make sure you’ve brought the good energy and attitude with you to your current meeting or space.
And like taking a moment to silence your phone, everyone will appreciate if you need to step out for a second to leave any ego or attitude at the door.
Stay Positive & Check, Check, Check
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The lobby of your doctor’s office sends quite a signal about the experience you’re about to have.
The lobby of the hotel automatically triggers and influences your emotions about your stay.
The lobby of your website (home page) sets a visitor up for success (or failure).
The lobby of your house matters. The lobby of your work matters. The lobby of a project KO matters.
A lobby can mean a lot of different things. All of which are equally important to focus on because all of them influence the emotion and experience for what follows after entering the lobby.
Stay Positive & Enjoy Your Stay
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