Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
When something doesn’t land perfectly, it’s not a failure.
It’s an opportunity to learn what did and didn’t work and then to try again with that knowledge.
Some things you ship might last forever in the world – imperfect.
But the artist doesn’t care. The linchpin is off creating better work.
Ship enough work and the faults of your past will be buried with better work, anyway.
Stay Positive & The Key Is To Keep Shipping More Better
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Keep your hopes up high. Dream. Fantasize. Trust that you’ll succeed.
Keep your head down low. Don’t expect anything. Prepare. Stay wary and smart.
Stay Positive & Don’t Try Switching Them
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We may look back to past decisions we made and think that we should have made them differently even though at the time we felt the decision was authentic.
Authenticity is something we shape and form over time. We try different versions of it on and hold tight to what we feel works.
It’s all part of the legacy we’re working to make.
But sometimes authenticity is a word thrown around to support work that’s actually not grounded in the legacy that brand or group or person is trying to make. For better and worse, your authentic self and my authentic self is not the same as any brand’s authentic self. It might be close, but not the same.
So, a challenge.
When you hear talk about authenticity, it’s worth double checking whose authenticity is being talked about. Inconsistency leads to the demise of legacy. Yours. Mind. A brands.
Stay Positive & Be Fluid, But Consistent
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When it comes to a launch date, there should be immediate understanding from all those involved and all those looking to purchase or use what you’re launching.
Where immediate understanding isn’t welcome is at the start.
If the book title is the same as others. If the project is just like another. If the idea is immediately understood. Then we’re not leaping far enough.
Stay Positive & Remember Not To Confuse Not Understanding For Not Liking
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Doubt is the enemy of any business.
Not solely in the owner or leader of a tribe, but in all those who show up.
Remove the doubt and you reveal a bridge to loyalty.
Take away the doubt of when you’re open, how fast you’ll respond to emails, what the cost is, if the cost is worth it.
It takes a lot of communication to do. Essentially, you’re making a thousand promises.
And that’s a good thing. We need you to. Your tribe needs you to.
Because they like living without doubt.
Stay Positive & Then Keep Those Promises
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The worst thing we can do for our business is to not show up.
The worst thing we can do for our team is to not bring anything to the meeting.
The worst thing we can do for our project is to not start.
Written differently.
The best thing we can do for our business is to show up.
The best thing we can do for our team is to bring ideas to the meeting.
The best thing we can do for our project is to start.
Something is something. It moves the needle. It gives others something to respond to and build from. Something signals progress and makes us feel fulfilled.
It doesn’t need to be everything. Nor perfect. Just something.
“Here’s something I made.” is a powerful phrase.
Are you using it enough?
Stay Positive & Something Something
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Most of the things we need to learn and don’t want to are for the greater good.
We do it because our place of work uses this platform instead of that platform. We do it because the family had friends tell them how good this food is from that food. We do it because someone paid for it and now we feel like we owe them our attempt to learn.
It, of course, can mean a lot of things. From platforms to recipes to tools to code to writing a book.
What oft goes forgotten is that once something is learned others will seek you out to teach.
Even more than that is we forget how good it feels to teach someone. To be the source of what brings them to the next level, gives them encourage, and offers them a safe space to grow.
There’s more of a reward to learning something than the success of learning it.
Stay Positive & Praise To The Teachers (And The Ones Who Seek Them Out)
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