Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Trying to get others to act how you want them to.
Holding yourself to insanely high expectations.
Not listening to your heart.
Working to prove someone wrong.
Watching the rest of a movie that you dislike after 15 minutes.
Breaking a promise.
Never learning to smell the roses.
Forgetting about who the work is really for.
Any others?
Stay Positive & If We Know It, We Can Work Around It
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We can focus on what’s not clear. Struggle with it. Try to figure it out. Spend time evaluating.
Or we can focus on what is clear, no matter how minute.
In doing so, we often find clarity around the edges. Either that or we figure out the right questions to ask, people to ask or next step to take to get the clarity we need to keep on going.
Don’t let the unclear parts distract you from doing the work you know you could be doing.
Stay Positive & Do The Clear Things First
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When a decision has been made, life gets far less stressful.
Until we make a decision, we’re investing emotional labor into evaluating whether or not to commit.
So it begs the question of how do you know once you’ve decided?
Is it written down?
Is it on the calendar?
Have you told your friend what you’ve decided?
Once we know the mark of a decision, we can use that to our advantage and get to decision-making faster, and thus have more time to execute and contribute.
No need to wonder if you’re stalling if you know you’ve already decided.
And no need to keep questioning a decision once it’s decided, too.
Stay Positive & Decide And Onward
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Location doesn’t matter as much as we make it out to matter. That is, if we define location as a physical space on a map.
But if we view location in regard to the people around it, the kind of community, the culture of the area.
Then it certainly does matter.
It’s really “people, people, people” than “location, location, location.”
Stay Positive & Find The Cohorts
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When we sell, make a statement about our brand, include fine print, write a scope of work – essentially, communicate what we’re giving for what – we’re making a promise.
And if that promise isn’t clear, that’s not a reason to make an excuse, under deliver, skirt the lines, change how you share your goods based on how it benefits you.
Nope.
An unclear promise means that you’ve allowed wiggle room to customize, surprise and delight, remain flexible in how you add value to the customer or client’s experience. An unclear promise isn’t a way to hold back; it’s a way to leap forward.
It’s risky and often not always in your favor. But it is worth it if you know what you’re signing up for.
And if that’s not your cup of tea; then make the promise clear in the first place.
Stay Positive & The Root Of Loyalty Is A Promise Made And A Promise Kept (Again And Again)
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First part of the combo is stability. It’s about ensuring you are clear in your goals and intentions. It’s also about understanding who you’re creating for and removing the chance of wasteful thinking by applying constraints to your work.
The second part is a challenge. If there’s no a problem there to solve, then we won’t be very moved to do the work. Of course, we also need to give ourselves permission to suck on solving the problem. That happens through encouragement and inspiration. Without those, a challenge is just a back breaker.
And if you didn’t think of it already – it’s the same combo to helping others create their greatest work, too.
Stay Positive & The Tension Is Real, But It’s Also Productive
HT to Dave
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The good stuff is always easier said than done.
But it’s always more beneficial to do than to say.
Stay Positive & Onward Through The Dip
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