Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
A book becomes infinitely better when we read it relaxed and with our imagination open. It gets better when we’re focused on it, too – no distractions.
Not only does the book get better in this state, we enjoy it more, too.
Same can be said about the work we do.
Stay Positive & Like A Book
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The moment you show up at work, leave the house, pitch a project, meet with a friend – it’s no longer about your experience.
Not if you intend to level up, learn, grow and maybe even get that promotion or watch your business idea succeed.
No, it’s about others’ experience. And the less we ping-pong between taking actions for us and taking actions for them, the more we all win.
Stay Positive & Remind Yourself “Who Is It For?”
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The number of gatekeepers is dwindling.
Now the onus is on us to say yes, to take action, to ship our ideas. No need for approval or a blessing or to wait for someone else to make it happen for us.
There are fewer gatekeepers than ever before – and while that’s beneficial to us, it also means there’s more responsibility.
Stay Positive & Up For It?
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No doubt that an unbranded glass leads the beverage it holds to be perceived as less valuable than the same liquid in a branded glass.
A bill with a pen on it leads to a different tip than a bill in a custom leather booklet.
And a gift most certainly leads one to appreciate it more when there’s a bow and a ribbon on it.
It’s not the entire point, but the details matter.
Stay Positive & As Do All The Other Little Things
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Hustling is great … if you do it early and often.
But most hustle third or fourth or dead last and then get frustrated when they have to pay the consequences of it.
Note: The hustling that works is the hustling we do before we need to.
Stay Positive & Hustle On
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Our brains are great at hiding the fact we missed something remarkable.
By default, we don’t think about what would happen if we accepted someone’s invite or if we would have gone to work a different way or stayed out to lunch with a friend for 15 minutes more.
The only thing our brain does recognize is the value after we say yes, take a leap and counter our intuition to focus on and execute to the plan.
All that to say, there’s a lot that we miss and if you don’t feel like you are, well, that’s the auto-pilot speaking up.
Stay Positive & More Yes, Please
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Culture can be evaluated by the pronouns used and it has no limits to how inclusive it can become.
Employees can say we. Customers can, too. The pronouns prove a sense of camaraderie and tribalism.
The more you hear “I” and “they,” the more room there is for cultural improvement.
Note: The solution may not be to ditch the culture for another. It may be to do what you can to elevate it. There’s no “we” until there someone that others want to be “we” with.
Stay Positive & Lead The Way
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