Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
When you’re thankful for someone, you can’t also be mad at them.
When you’re appreciative of the way things are, you can’t also be frustrated with them.
When you’re full of gratitude, you can’t also be full of fear, worry, shame, etc.
You can try running from or outworking an emotion you really don’t want to experience.
Or you can practice gratitude.
Stay Positive & Helps Even More When You Write What Your Thankful For
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When you take ownership of something, your attitude shifts.
You care more than you did before about it. You manage it better. You show it off and share it with others. You make the most of it.
Interestingly, there’s not much that dictates ownership of something.
It’s not like you’re showing the car title to people or revealing the name you had sewn onto the inside of the jacket or the letter that was addressed to you along with the package.
It goes to show that we can take ownership of nearly anything we want.
Like the project we’ve been putting off or training a new hire.
We can take ownership of making the city we live in a better place or reading books that make difference.
We can own our mornings, our meetings, our bodies and our relationships if we choose to.
Ownership might be more selfless than we ever thought it to be.
Stay Positive & Own it
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Good habits give you more time in your day, save your willpower for important decisions and build rewarding momentum that you can benefit from throughout the long haul.
Curiously, you can’t fill your entire day with habits because you’ll lose autonomy.
So how many habits is the right number?
My guess is roughly ten.
Ten positive habits because it’s likely you can do all of them in the morning and have the remainder of the day to explore, try new things, make sprints, fail … and at the end of it you can still feel fulfilled because you followed through with your habits at the start of it.
Here’s a list of 6 to start with if you aren’t already doing them.
Stay Positive & What Others Would You Add?
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Every effort can benefit from a little air to breathe, a little slack, a little decanter time.
That’s not to suggest standing still. In fact, it suggests the opposite.
When you prepare for one thing then to jump to preparing for another, you’re setting yourself up for good things to fill that void, and subsequent voids.
Consider this question. If you could invest a little today to get something special a week from now. Would you?
That’s the reality of the world we live in. And if we choose to invest a little into many things each day, then we’re setting ourselves up for a good chunk of future benefits.
And then by preparing more, we compound those.
The work we put in always has a reward so long as we keep putting work in. The beauty is that momentum builds and the benefits get bigger without more work being necessary.
Stay Positive & Allow For More Prep Time
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There’s such a thing as the minimum viable audience (MVA). It’s the smallest amount of fans, followers, customers, etc. you need to sustain your business.
It’s a far less stressful and much more successful endeavor that trying to reach the masses.
However, there’s part of the MVA that still gets overlooked when it comes to marketing and community.
That piece is inclusiveness.
Just because you’re keeping your customer base small, doesn’t make it okay to abstain from inviting minorities, different genders, and those with disabilities.
Yes, find the smallest audience you need, but do so without exclusion of those who deserve to be in your MVA.
Stay Positive & Make The Door Wider If Needed
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Sometimes all you need to start moving forward is to pause.
Grab your laptop or notepad and pen, then hunker down.
Walk yourself and your gear to a coffee shop and take a seat.
You know how in conversations if you stay quiet, the other person will fill the empty space with their voice? (Interview 101 skill)
The same happens when we pause with our work in front of us. No distractions. No racing from one thing to another.
If we merely make the time to hunker down, some of the deepest focus and best work will happen.
Stay Positive & Make Work Happen
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If you’re reading this, you likely have something you’re tasked with today.
It might involve you exercising your expertise on a subject.
Unfortunately (or fortunately), the expectation is that you’ll do more than the one thing you’re really good at. You’re expected to do more better.
And rather than racing around to learn how to code, understand the psychology of colors and balance a spreadsheet, consider where the project will be at 5 steps from now and where it was 5 steps before now.
How can you make it better for those who are about to touch it and those who will start it next time (eventually handing it over to you).
The more we can see just outside our blinders, the more smooth our execution can become and the less likely the work we touched will come back to us to be fixed or improved.
We don’t have to be masters of everything, but understanding the nuances of a project before and after we touch it can make the entire system stronger.
Stay Positive & Lead The Trifecta: Hindsight, Focus, Foresight
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