Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Been there and done that is critical to learning how you can go there and do it better.
But before being there and doing that, it’s vital to go there and see it.
Gather ideas. See where the bar is set. Give yourself an advantage when you first start to do rather than observe.
Stay Positive & It’s How You Go From Taking A Step To Taking A Leap
There’s no default setting that gets you going when your dog breaks something in your house.
Nothing dictates that you get going when some accident happens.
You decide in that moment how to feel and respond.
Same can be said for work matters. Or how you feel about not having spent any time on your project today.
What gets us riled up and motivated is what we decide gets us riled up and motivated.
Stay Positive & What’ll You Decide Today?
Preparing for a meeting. Preparing for work to be done. Preparing for a launch.
It all takes time. Strategy. Resources. A team.
But I’d argue that it takes more energy and ought to take more time to mentally prepare.
Mentally prepare for the challenging questions you’ll face. Mentally prepare for success and failure. Mentally prepare for the emotional labor at bay.
Any prep you do, factor 2x for the mental preparation to go along with it.
Stay Positive & Are You Ready? Mentally Ready?
Imagine that you were going to get made fun of with either decision you make.
Or consider that you’ll upset someone with the choice you make.
How about how someone will inevitably disagree with the move you make, regardless of the move.
Someone will be disappointed.
Once you accept these conditions, it makes deciding easier. Deciding what’s right because it’s right; not because of what someone else will think/feel/react/etc.
Stay Positive & Decisive
You are what you eat.
Rather, your business is what it consumes.
Rather, your customer base is a reflection of your business.
Logic then implies that if you want growth-mindset customers, you need to be in a growth-mindset yourself.
Maintenance mindsets attract and retain maintenance customers.
That’s all well and fine.
Unless it’s not what you want.
You are what you eat.
Stay Positive & Don’t Like The Taste? Spit It Out.
It’s not that you can’t make different decisions in the same environment.
It’s that you can make more different decisions in a new environment. Better ones, even.
A place where there’s no momentum. No status quo. No lingering way of doing things or statuses that people left in the room last time they were there. The emptiness calls on you to fill it anew.
Changing the conditions doesn’t just work for work – it applies to relationships and health and all our habits.
Go to a restaurant you’ve never taken your partner. Run in a part of the city you’ve never seen. Host your next meeting off-site at a venue no one has been.
Stay Positive & You Control The Conditions
It’s probably not. The odds are against you.
But unlike a scratch off lottery ticket, how you perceive the situation or person influences the result.
The best way to make a friend is to be a friend.
Turns out that attitude applies to other relationships and events as well.
Stay Positive & When You Act As If, It’s Not As If For Very Long
