Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
If you’re not willing to ask questions that make you feel uncomfortable then you’re never going to get the answers you need to keep moving forward.
You’ll miss out on the answers that enable you to connect on a deeper level with someone.
You’ll be weighed down with regret (which, IMO is way worse than temporary discomfort).
You need to ask to move on, up, quickly and on the right track.
Stay Positive & Find The Guts To Ask, We Need You To
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If you’re defined by what you do, reason would have it that the stronger definition comes from making more promises and keeping them.
The weaker definition is from not making any commitments at all – inaction.
The worst definition is making promises, but not keeping any of them.
This isn’t only how others define us. It’s also how we define ourselves.
Stay Positive & Can You Feel It?
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Moving fast can certainly get us to reach a destination more quickly.
However, it might not be the destination we sought out. In an effort to keep moving, we may have veered off the path or taken a short cut.
It’s worth taking a pause to ensure you’re making the change you seek to make; that the effort you’re putting in is fueled by the why you’re doing what you’re doing.
Stay Positive & Ironically, Sometimes A Pause Helps Your Momentum
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Do you know what the customer who walks through your door can expect from you?
How about when they send you an email. Can you communicate what they can expect once you’ve read it?
What can they expect from you when they try calling, mailing or leaving you a note?
How about when something doesn’t go right. What can they expect from you then?
If you can clearly communicate the expectations people can have of you, do it.
Then stick to the promises you make.
That’s all it really takes to win in our connection economy.
Stay Positive & Perhaps Write A Customer Bill Of Rights?
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You might be able to shine at the start and throughout. Kudos.
I’ve found that there’s a time when you can shine brighter and flashier than the rest, though.
It’s when everyone else’s energy is spent.
If you can hang on to the positive attitude, smiles and fist-bumps longer than others; if you can keep hydrated, motivated and at your A-game longer than others then you’re bound to do two things.
The first is simply stand out from the rest. You will officially become a diamond in the rough.
The second is that you’re likely to be someone’s last contact. You know that expression to leave a bad taste in your mouth? The opposite impact happens when you can showcase your energy when all those around you have spent theirs.
No doubt, the grit and gumption it takes to maintain the energy level is hard work, but you know what they say about hard work.
Stay Positive & It’s Worth It
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When you’re out of energy, it can be hard to do the thing you know you should be doing.
And when you’re full of energy, you may rather be doing fun things instead of the thing you know you should be doing because you finally have the energy!
The same can be written for time and passion and help.
Those who successfully turn a commitment into a habit aren’t the ones who have all the energy, time, passion and help, though.
They’re simply the ones who show up whether or not motivation does, too.
Stay Positive & It’s Only On You (Always Has Been)
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There’s a tough type of time to lose.
It’s not time lost relaxing or time given to friends (heck, you might be bright enough not to consider that time lost at all).
But time spent standing still, ruminating on decisions – we lose more than just time when we do that.
Every moment we’re not making a decision and taking action, there’s an opportunity cost of time lost.
If you take three months to decide to quit and start a new job, the opportunity cost is three months of having invested building your skills at the new job.
If you take a week to decide to submit for a speaking engagement, the opportunity cost is a week of others submitting themselves to speak and getting priority.
If you take more than five minutes to introduce yourself to someone beautiful at the coffee shop, the opportunity cost is that you’re more likely than ever to chicken out.
The best way to combat the opportunity costs of time is to set a deadline for yourself, and if you don’t meet the deadline, let it go.
Time spent agonizing and regretting a decision not made is just as bad as time lost with indecision, if not more.
Stay Positive & Onward
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