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A word of advice on prioritization: you’ll be respected for having a top priority. Maybe it’s work or a hobby or a mentee or family.

However, when talking to others about your priority; they will only see it as important if it helps or benefits them.

My solution is to shift language from priority to mission. When you’re on a mission, it’s almost always about helping others.

Now that you’re in that mindset, you only need to figure out how those you’re talking to can or are being helped from your mission.

Prioritization has always been a game. Changing the framing is a sure way to get better at winning it.

Stay Positive & Winner Winner Mission Dinner

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Leaping feels scary as hell. It’s full of uncertainty.

Yet when we look back at those moments that felt like leaps at the time, it’s clear they were just another step.

The next time you feel like you’re leaping, it may be worth pausing to remember that it’s more a feeling than reality.

You’ll find a bit of that trepidation disappears in doing so.

Stay Positive & Then Leap On

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For a business to succeed, it needs two types of personal-ness.

The first is personalization. How can you adapt your offering for those who come to you? What tweaks can you make for it to become unique? How do you differ guest interactions?

The second is personality. How can you bring the best, smartest most sincere energy to the customer? What can you do to alter your staff training so guests feel seen as human from everyone who serves them?

Stay Positive & It’s Business AND Personal

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Hope isn’t strong enough for attracting what or who we’d like.

That result requires design, attention, action and care.

But first, it requires knowing what or who we’d like to attract.

Once we know, we can start to be that for others.

Want to make a friend? Be a friend. Want to be loved? Love first and more. Want your business to have people who talk about politics? Talk politics. Want too attract the avant-garde? Be the avant-garde.

Then once you’re it. Surround yourself with more of it.

Stay Positive & Become That Lighthouse

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Not everything in life is like a sheet of glass and a rock; it’s much more difficult to breakthrough.

The meaningful work requires a lot of swings at the bat, it requires a lot of empathy – repeated.

In short, breakthroughs happen as a result of consistently showing up again and again and again.

And breakthroughs don’t just need to be about the work either. They can be about the people and earning their trust, too.

You’ll likely make some incredible friends this way.

Stay Positive & Never Give Up, Never Never Give Up

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Naturally you often get a better product when you go to where the experts are.

But that’s not all.

You also often get a heightened experience that becomes something worth sharing with others.

You also often get knowledge outside the specific product you’re purchasing, giving you more confidence in your selection overall.

You also often get to feed off the passion of someone else.

That knowledge, passion, energy and value is all built in.

Stay Positive & Surround Yourself With Experts

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Instead of looking for how you can make your mark on a project.

Instead of looking for how you can use your skill set to help out right now.

Instead of looking for how you can change direction of the ship.

It’s worth catching up with the team, understanding where they’ve been and how they got to where they are now. What discussions they’ve had that led them to where they are; to connect with them on the challenges they’ve already faced.

To change things up, you need to be trusted. To be trusted, you have to catch up.

Stay Positive & Time To Build Some Trust

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