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If we could measure consistency, we’d find it helping in the long run.

Consistency in some scenarios seems like a given: You want your food experience to be consistent and you want to wake up to someone who loves you the same as they did yesterday.

Consistency in other scenarios gets thrown out the window pretty quickly: You want your logo to be different after eight months and you begin only working out in the mornings that you happen to wake up early on.

Those sporadic workouts and logo changes might feel like they’re powerful, but they’re not. They’re shiny, but not moving.

What matters is that we treat areas outside of where we dine and who we date with the same care and intention around consistency.

Stay Positive & If Anything, How Can We Add More Consistency?

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Your way might not be right, but at least it’s yours.

Whether it succeeds or fails, it’s on you and you can grow from it.

You boldly chose yourself when you did it your way instead of waiting to be picked.

There are a thousand others ways than the high way that are not your way, but your way is the only way it can be yours.

If you think about it, all the others ways are taken by someone else. That’s their way. What makes this way special is that it’s yours.

Stay Positive & Here’s To Your Way

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Being smart or having money certainly helps you on the path of getting what you want.

Practice and care and intention do, too.

But nothing helps get you there more quickly and more meaningfully than people.

Connection is your most valuable resource. To make the change in the world you seek to make, you will have to engage with hundreds (maybe thousands) of people.

People who help with your idea and people who will criticize it. People who will be changed by it and people who will change it.

It’s a lie to tell ourselves we can get along just fine without vulnerably getting in front of people. Sure, there’s a minimum viable audience, but there’s still an audience.

If there’s a meaningful event that takes place and no one’s there to experience it, did it even happen?

Stay Positive & It’s The Connection Economy, Baby

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If you wait long enough, a better opportunity might present itself. There’s no arguing that.

There is, however, pointing out that waiting comes at a cost.

The best a leader can do is to act on the opportunities that are present and invest the time in making the most of them rather than waiting for “better” ones to arrive.

You could hire someone who qualifies for the position and train them to be the most remarkable hire you’ve had in the same time (probably less) than what it takes to wait for a better application to come in (all the while the team is being dragged down trying to handle the work load of being one person down while you wait).

There’s opportunity in action and cost with inaction.

Stay Positive & More Opportunity And Investment, Please

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If your goal is to offer someone a remarkable experience with your product or service, there’s only so much that can be done to continue meeting those expectations.

At some point, the rising expectations of those you seek to change will lead them to disappointment. Linearly, better is not infinite.

Different can be, though.

So, go ahead and deliver beyond expectations, but notice when you’re at the point of nearly over-extending yourself, when the expectations have risen too high and then rather than trying to zig harder than ever, zag.

Stay Positive & Better Then Different, Repeat

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Whether or not there’s something for you to lose isn’t the right rationale to perform (or not) from.

After all, the change you seek to make isn’t about you, it’s about others.

Before you back down from doing something that’s scary but you know is right in your heart of heart’s, remember what the world has to gain when you lean in.

Stay Positive & It’s A Lot, I’m Sure

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It’s a beautiful moment when you are yourself in a conversation, but then someone brings up something you’re passionate about or asks a question on the topic.

Something switches.

Vision narrows, dopamine’s released, excitement courses through you as you share your thoughts.

You share deeply and strategically and you say (and feel) it with confidence.

When we experience the switch, we know two things have happened.

1. We truly care.
2. We’ve accepted the chance of being wrong.

The second is extremely important.

It’s not that we’ve disregarded being wrong or that we’re stuck in our own ways.

It’s that we’ve learned enough in the past and understand that being wrong again will only make us smarter. And we do this because of 1. We truly care.

Stay Positive & When Have You Last Experience The Switch?

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