Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Can you be it?
The first to fill the void. First to ask a question. First to try to understand.
First to suggest an answer to a problem. First to show love. First to connect on a feeling.
How about the first to take an action rather than waiting to be told what to do.
Empathy is a skill.
Stay Positive & Exercise It Often
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There’s plenty to be done in advance of the actual work.
Establishing what your KPI is. Getting buy-in from stakeholders. Doing the research and reading the books. Listening and learning from the target.
When you think of all that can and ought to be done before the work actually starts, it makes you wonder how you can create anything meaningful without it.
They call it an advance because it gives you the advantage.
Who wouldn’t want that in something that will make a difference?
Stay Positive & Prep Time Will Always Exceed Creation And Launch Time
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Flaunting doesn’t do much for others. Perhaps a spectator or two will appreciate it, but flaunting is not a means to a meaningful impact.
Better to use it if you’ve got it.
Stay Positive & Maybe Even Use It For Others
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Juggling should be left to jugglers.
Juggling in business, in projects, in tasks undermines the work at hand and the impact at stake.
Better to take one meaningful step at a time toward the same goal and table the others until they can have your undivided attention.
This goes for guests at a farmer’s market, client work, family and so on.
What’s more is that juggling in those contexts isn’t a skill; it’s a cop out to feeling like you’re moving the needle. Reality might be that we are, but not in a meaningful way; not in a way that the guest at the farmer’s market feels seen, like the client feels your heart in their work, like your family means something to you.
Leave the juggling to jugglers.
Stay Positive & Focus = Meaningful Impact
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What you had to stop doing to give your guest attention … it doesn’t matter to them.
The long task list you have for the day … it doesn’t matter to them.
That there’s another guest who just came in looking to be helped … it doesn’t matter to them.
Now that we have that out of the way. It’s time to focus in and deliver on what the guest does want.
Do that every time and your business will be set for life.
Stay Positive & Shrug Off What Doesn’t Matter To Them
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Despite how conscious of our decisions we are and how well we control our emotions, when things don’t go our way, we can be quick assign blame.
If you find yourself doing this often; it’s worth figuring out how to remove the blame.
Making examples up here, but …
The more we make the decisions ourselves, the harder it is for us to blame and the better we get at moving on (because no one likes blaming themselves!).
Stay Positive & You Decide
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It only takes one person to become inspired. One conversation or idea they share can get us over the slump we’re in and on our creative way.
If we’re working in a silo; If we’re not setting up meetings; if we’re not calling cowrokers to bounce ideas off of; if we’re not putting ourselves out there to interacting with others, how are we supposed to level up?
We might be able to move inch by inch alone, but if we wish to leap with inspiration, it’s worth connecting with another … and another .. and another until we do.
Stay Positive & It Only Takes One Person
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