Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
A dash of salt & pepper in a dish can’t really harm it.
Either it goes unnoticed and you’re only out of a dash of salt and pepper.
Or it elevates the meal that extra bit, making it better than expected.
Same goes for the work we do and the people we interact with.
Of course, we call it surprise & delight then.
Stay Positive & Nothing To Lose, Only To Gain
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Control is dependent on the story we tell ourselves.
We can believe that we can control our culture or not. We can believe we can control what time we wake up or not. We can tell ourselves different stories about promotions at work – whether it’s in or out of our control.
My two cents: Make it out of your control when it benefits.
You can set an alarm on your phone and believe it’s out of your control to turn it off. You can say it’s out of your control to sit back and do nothing to improve our culture. You can tell the story of getting a promotion by helping other people more often.
It’s all in our control, one way or another, unless we believe it’s not.
Stay Positive & Take Control When It Benefits
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Solid business decisions are based on the premise that there’s a monetary return greater than the investment needed to execute.
Some businesses make ROI black and white – it’s all about the money, and the ROI better be a certain percentage for the tactic to be considered at all.
Other businesses make ROI more grey – mainly because there are often other returns on the investment that aren’t as easily translatable into dollar signs.
Public exposure. Doing something that makes you top of mind to your current customer or client base. The feeling of contributing to a philanthropic entity. The good standing you’ve kept with area community leaders. The person who tells a friend about you.
Consider this situation: You’re a restaurant and you have the opportunity to make a spooky-themed take-out meal box. You’ll donate $2 from each one sold to a local nonprofit. You’re only going to make $2 per box and you won’t sell more than 50.
Are you running the type of business that would make the spooky-themed take-out meal box happen or pass on it?
There’s not really a wrong answer. What matters is that we know who we are and we don’t pass on opportunities too be a better version of ourselves.
Stay Positive & What Does ROI Mean To You?
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There’s not a better action you can take that will get you to where you want to go more than helping another person.
Promotions are given when you help enough clients and colleagues.
A novel is written better when one helps another write.
Relationships grow stronger when you’re there to help the other out in their day-to-day.
It can get exhausting working with a brain that’s always evaluating how to help another out, but ultimately rewarding.
So rewarding.
Stay Positive & Helpful
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Imagine joining friends for lunch a year from now and they ask what you’ve been up to during the pandemic.
Will you have enough to talk about after you fill them in on the shows you watched and home purging you did?
If you joined friends for lunch a week from now and they ask what you’ve been up to.
Will you have something worth sharing and being proud of?
Fulfillment is at our fingertips.
Stay Positive & The Choice Is Yours
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You could be putting out 20% off deals. Special offers. Discounts galore.
Or.
You might have already offered ongoing deals.
The deal that if they show up, they’ll leave better than they arrived.
The deal that if they paid you, they’ll feel like the value received was greater than the cash exchanged.
The deal that you’ll be there, as your authentic self, tomorrow just as today.
We might not need to add more deals, but stand by the deals we’ve already made.
Stay Positive & Double Down, Not On Discounts, But On The Existing Deals
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Meaningful work isn’t a race to the finish line.
Better to be the first to start. The first to step in a puddle. The first to make a wrong turn. The first to cheer on others. The first to welcome the spectators. The first to see the naysayers. The first through the obstacle course. The first to lead others.
Better, probably, to be the first to everything but the finish line.
That is. Unless you’re trying to be the first to start again.
Stay Positive & Increase Your Daily Dose Of Firsts
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