Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
A project with a specific deadline makes the work stronger.
An email with a personalized intro makes the message stronger.
A mission with a motto makes the tribe that’ll follow you stronger.
Some call it polishing the work, but that’s more for the eyes.
You’ve gotta sharpen it to reach the heart.
Stay Positive & There Are Tools All Around You
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It’s never harmful to the work to ask for more direction. If anything, it’s the opposite.
The more clarity you seek on direction, the more seamlessly you’ll nail the end result.
The more you check in on the direction you’re heading, the less waste you’ll create; in effort, in time, in resources, in energy.
Sure, it’s uncomfortable to ask for more direction – your ego of achieving the goal with as little help as possible as at stake. But so is your trust, smarts, and mentality if you don’t ask for more direction.
Stay Positive & Check-Ins Welcome
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Speed isn’t just essential in a race; it’s essential in a journey, but not in the sense of reaching the end.
Rather, speed is vital to overcome adversity; it’s important to be able to support others; it’s important to finish the little things in order to ideate further on the change we seek to make.
To do any of that we have to be quick to learn. Learn from others. Learn from mistakes. Learn from observations and mental calculations.
The faster we learn, the greater impact we can have.
No wonder the game changers in life are avid readers, avid mistake-makers, avid interviewers, avid content consumers, avid partners…
Stay Positive & Avid, Too
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When you give someone a task, they assign a new priority level to it.
This happens with every exchange; projects, ideas, love.
Knowing that, it’s not right to hold another accountable for the work the same way you have.
This, of course, requires empathy of the highest degree.
Emotional labor worth investing in as we collaborate.
Stay Positive & Strategic Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
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Of course it will be awkward if that’s what you intend to make it.
It can be scary, too, if that’s the mindset you enter with.
Otherwise, it can go really, really well if that’s what you’re working toward.
The energy is what you make it.
You change the outcome by changing the headspace you bring.
Stay Positive & It Works For Meetings, Relationships, Trades….
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We’re all in it.
The cashier is in the ideas business. So is a nurse. So is a marketer and a dog walker.
Ideas to move our work forward. Ideas to change our culture. Ideas to make things better.
It’s not good for anyone when a day goes by without an idea or two.
Stay Positive & Ideate Accordingly
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Doing things for the money leads to a lack of authenticity and connection.
There are risks at large that may not exist if you were to do it for something else; say a guest experience or because what you’re doing helps change the culture.
Money isn’t a fair rationale if your goal is to make an impact on the world.
Certainly it’s a byproduct, but not one to base customer interaction decisions on, cut corners on or use as an excuse when the consequences of doing things for the money becomes real.
Stay Positive & Dollar Dollar Bill Ain’t All
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