Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Momentum sounds like it comes natural.
If we just show up, momentum does, too.
But it’s not true. Momentum takes hard work.
Momentum without force behind it never gets easier.
Momentum without resistance leads to a snowball effect that will hurt your mission more than help it.
Build the momentum, but then know you will need to manage it; it’s not a self-maintained law.
Stay Positive & It’s A Beauty When It’s Managed, Though
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Extra time can do a lot for us.
It can be what we need to make the right connection with someone or ignite the right conversation.
It can be what we need to add the polish on our work or put a bow on it.
It can also be what we need to celebrate a win before it’s onto the next thing.
No one gives us extra time, though. We have to carve it out ourselves.
Stay Positive & Extra Extra
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You can answer the question with a task or process or job description.
Or you can answer it with a template that puts the focus not on you, but on others.
What do you do?
I help X do Y.
What do you do?
I help breweries thrive … children recover from poor parenting … neighbors discover a new flavor ….
All meaningful work comes from helping others. So who are you helping? How?
That’s the answer people want to hear and connect with.
Stay Positive & Let’s Try It Again, What Do You Do?
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The lemon law is simply another way to give yourself permission to avoid sunk costs.
The sooner you leave something that’s dragging you down, the sooner you plug the hole in the boat, the sooner you say no; the better.
The law exists for a reason.
Because it works.
Stay Positive & Don’t Let The Sunk Costs Sour You Up
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Budgeting and cash flow
Increasing demand
Adding unexpected value
Growing others (and yourself)
Preparing for hardship
Preparing for success
Remembering why you’re doing what you’re doing
Stay Positive & It Might Be Worth Keying In On That Last One
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Even if every action you took during the day was part of a positive habit, it couldn’t stay.
The world continues to change around us, as does the culture. There are more people changing than they are not – no matter how hard we try to be in the group of not.
So, those daily habits, those regular positive behaviors may need to shift.
The challenge for any optimizer then isn’t what to replace it with, but how to shape a habit differently to fit the new (soon to be better?) reality.
Stay Positive & No Answer, Just Adventure
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It’s not typical, but it happens.
It happens when we rush, when we take shortcuts, when we talk more than listen and when we maintain ourselves with busy work instead of meaningful work.
It feels like progress – and it is – but not in the direction we may want.
Stay Positive & Gut Check Your Actions
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