GarthBox

Another year, another birthday. Two years ago I shared all the projects I’ve shipped over the last handful of years.

Last year, I didn’t have a large one worth sharing because I’ve been working on the one I’m happy to share this year.

Garth’s Brew Bar is opening in less than a month. You can read more about the journey on the blog and sign up for newsletter in the bottom right of the page. If you’re in the Madison, Wisconsin area – or traveling through – we’d love for you to swing by for a beer and a conversation.

Here’s to helping breweries thrive and raising the bar of bars!

Stay Positive & Cheers To Another Year

The first way to gut check your content is to ask yourself if you’re adding value to whoever may consume your content. If the answer is yes, then move onto the second filter.

Imagine someone in your industry or profession that you don’t like the content from. Could you imagine that they would publish the same work you’re about to?

Stay Positive & Onward To Better

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It’s a small world, even digitally.

As you switch between chat channels, blogs, meetings, email, appointments, hand-written letters, the driver’s seat know that your reputation follows you.

You can either compound it for the best reputation possible or you can crumble it in a moment.

The truest test of a person is not what they do when no one is looking, but that they show up consistently whether someone is looking or not.

Stay Positive & Manage The Rep

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The first hour of anything new is the toughest.

You learn you don’t have the right resources, so you need to go get them. You haven’t built up momentum, so everything feels like friction. You’re in this zone of figuring it out before you’re in the zone of optimization.

There’s no reason to get annoyed during the first hour. You know it’s going to be difficult.

Equally as important, though, is that you know it’s going to get smoother, easier, streamlined and faster.

Stay Positive & Push Through That Hour

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Though everything matters, everything is marketing, everything either subtracts or adds to the journey, we can still prioritize.

Prioritize what will matter a month from now or a year from now.

Prioritize relationships. Prioritize doing work that makes us feel fulfilled at the end of the day and energized for the next. Prioritize generosity.

Stay Positive & Time For More Of The Important Stuff

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It’s one thing to walk into a chocolatier’s shop and order ghost pepper caramel chocolate squares from a clerk.

It’s another thing to walk into a chocolotier’s shop and order ghost pepper caramel chocolate squares from a clerk when the owner is there, beside the clerk, working on her next masterpiece.

Your presence can shift someone’s experience for the better.

Stay Positive & All It Requires Is Showing Up

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Reminders never hurt – or shouldn’t if there’s positive intention behind them.

Reminders for yourself why you’re doing the work you’re doing.

Reminders for others that you’re putting their wants first.

Reminders to send the note, submit that project and share an appreciation with someone new to the team.

Sometimes we can get lost in action and what’s next.

Reminders can help keep us remain grounded (and positive) through it all.

Stay Positive & Remember?

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