Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
It’s pretty easy to make a to-do list and to run with it.
Almost as easy is to make a to-do list that, beside each task, you list the motivation for it or the feeling you’ll have when it’s complete or the reason it’s on the list in the first place.
Two types of easy lists, but one with so much more power and invited motivation to complete it.
Stay Positive & Which List Have You Been Making?
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If you reflect on the times you’ve lost it, you’ll quickly realize they were all moments when the workload lightened, your schedule was more free and you had time for things.
That time is a trickster, though, because if you have time for things then you also have time to not do anything–you have time to waste.
In a world where time is relative, we need deadlines more than ever. Ones assigned for us and ones we assign ourselves to keep the motivation alive.
The best way to avoid losing your motivation is to keep needing it.
Stay Positive & What’s Next On Your List?
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Talking about your competition puts them top of mind for those you’re talking to.
You can’t talk about their weak spots without it sounding like you’re degrading them.
You can’t talk about their strong suits without making it sound like they’re better than you.
Face value, it may seem like copying something new a competitor does prevents them from having an advantage, but really it is a way that keeps the average, average.
You know what works and doesn’t work for your brand, so there’s no need to bring any of your competitors into the discussion of progress.
Do more of what does and less of what doesn’t.
That’s how you compete.
Stay Positive & You Do You (Well)
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If you’re going to feel fear, feel it around the idea of being done.
Because if it’s a mission worth journeying to complete, it’s a mission worth continuing.
The only question you need to have at the finish line is, “What’s next?”
Stay Positive & More Doing
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From time to time, you’ll have the chance to inject more into your work than you thought.
You might be provided a stretch of extra time or capital or resource of some sort.
What you put that into can make all of the difference.
If what gets enhanced helps the whole, then you’re likely to be building something meaningful. If it helps enhance profits, you may not be building the business we need.
We need organizations that make things better for people, not the other way around.
Stay Positive & Are You Ready?
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You can attempt to plow right through it, but no doubt more will add up before you can catch up.
You can let it continue to grow, but that usually puts you in a bind, too.
Or you can prioritize the log and ask for help.
The only shame in it is the shame you bring, but if you leave that at home, the work can get done and you can get back to investing your time on meaningful work.
Stay Positive & The More Help The Marrier
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There’s something relieving about adding “V1” to the end of a project name, file or email.
It gives you permission to accept that it may not be perfect.
It gives you reassurance that the person or people on the receiving end of it will understand that there’s more to come and more room for improvement.
Heck, they may even weigh on on how you can make it better.
I bring it up because we hurt ourselves when we don’t mark things as V1 and respect that meaningful change is made over time with multiple versions and tweaks and improvements.
Stay Positive & Free Yourself From Perfection Expectations
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