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You’re probably not a top athlete in your favorite sport, but there’s no doubt there’s a pathway there.

You’re probably not an incredible writer, but we’ve all got a keyboard now.

You’re probably not running the greatest restaurant in the city, but you have the same opportunity to wow guests that the person on other side of town.

The only thing between you here and you there is the decision that the work you put in will matter.

Stay Positive & Best Foot Forward, I Hear

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The beloved long-standing restaurant shared that it was increasing its sanitation practices.

The airline said it’s cleaning its planes even better than what it was.

The people are saying they’re going to wash their hands more frequently.

Makes you wonder a bit what all of these places would have been like if they put as much gusto into keeping eachother healthy then as they are now.

Makes you wonder a bit what all of us could be if we put as much gusto into our work, relationships, art in the face of a crisis.

Not to say we need to panic, but boy does fear carry some energy with it, doesn’t it?

Stay Positive & Perhaps It’s Time To Fear …

The bottom

Stagnation

Banal work

Toxic relationships

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The path isn’t linear.

There’s no map.

The way to better doesn’t require you to stay in your lane.

In fact, there’s more incentive not to.

You’ll learn more and grow faster by breaking status quo, learning from industries outside your own and doing the things that make you feel like they are risky.

Stay Positive & Buckle Up

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It’s an important person to have around.

For whatever reason – by default – we don’t push ourselves as much as we can. It’s likely why we’re so attracted to communities, groups, tribes; it’s others we know who will bring out the best in us.

The real challenge, of course, is on us to go out and find those who will get us to go further than we thought we could.

And maybe even more challenging, is to let go of those who won’t.

Stay Positive & Go Find The Others

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A great gauge of the value of the information you’re sharing is if it’s Googlable.

Everyone is getting smarter and given more access to more information than ever before. And nearly everyone has access to Google.

This might force you to create more experiences, show up with passion, invest more time in challenging facts than sharing them–all of this Google can’t do.

Keep yourself valuable.

People are paying to listen to you, whether it’s with time, money or their energy.

Stay Positive & We Owe It To Them (And Ourselves)

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1. Set your limits: This could be limiting TV time to limiting how much you eat to when you answer emails. Limits, constraints, guard rails are your friends.
2. Stay positive: As in, welcome adversity, know that there’s a solution to every problem and create the good in others’ experiences.
3. Surround yourself with really really remarkable people. The people will make or break you. Fortunately, you have a choice on who you hang with.

Stay Positive & 4. Start Now

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It’s not necessarily the content that you’re consistent with that they seek.

It’s not even the style that they’re gravitated toward.

What matters is that you consistently show up as your self.

Every day, the feeling of your interactions and offerings need to be the same.

And that’s pretty simple, too.

Stay Positive & Just Make Sure Your Heart Is In It

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