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By doing more, we often reap more rewards.

But it’s worth questioning who we are doing more for.

Some brands do more for themselves. They might see some rewards in the near future for it, but no chance they’ll be sustained.

Other brands, the one’s we’re loyal to, do more for us, the customer. They’re in it for the long haul (and we are, too, if they keep treating us well).

When it’s time to consider a new tactic, special, event, happy hour, product; it’s worth asking who it’s for.

Stay Positive & If It’s For Them, Carry On

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Sometimes it comes from thinking about a friend.

Other times it’s about proving myself right.

Sometimes it’s forced. I fake it. I show up until motivation does.

Other times it’s because I formed a habit and don’t really need motivation. I just do what I’ve done for the thousandth time.

Sometimes I source it from a vision I have for who I want to be and the story I want to tell.

Other times it’s from being pissed off.

Sometimes it’s to impress someone who might never even know.

Other times it’s from coffee or a podcast.

Point is: Motivation isn’t sourced from one place.

Stay Positive & Find (Or Make) Yours

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In an effort to race to the top, there are two boxes to check at any point in time.

Are you making the work better?

Are you making someone else’s life easier?

Check those two boxes in every action and you’re sure to end up on top.

Stay Positive & See You There

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They’re powerful. They can make or break someone’s spirit (even our own).

Just as important are the words we don’t use. When we keep quiet.

It’s an art. We learn by using them … or not.

The important part is the learning.

Stay Positive & Speak, Learn, Repeat

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The best kind of marketing happens with voice.

Not the Alexa and Google kind of voice.

But the face-to-face voice.

The moment you have with someone who asks why you’re doing what you’re doing, how you got started, where you hope to go or how they can help?

Stay Positive & Ready To Answer

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When you start driving, you never avoid the first pothole.

It’s new to you, unexpected and if you’re driving alone, you might get pissed that you hit it. If you’re driving with others, you’ve gotta deal with their feedback, too.

Fortunately, that’s just the first pothole. After that, it’s pretty rare that you’ll hit a second. You know to allow yourself enough reaction time, to look for it and you don’t want others critiquing your skills again. You’ll show them.

The same can be said for the first curb you ride over, the first yellow light you see if you can make it through, the first parallel park job, the first steep hill you have to break in the middle of, the first time you try to pass another vehicle that’s not going as slow as you thought …

It’s pretty clear we get better as drivers when we have more firsts and when we learn from them.

Same can be said for any act, really.

Stay Positive & So What Do You Do, Again?

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As you grow and move forward, you’re going to delegate tasks out.

And, without a doubt, the task will be done wrong.

But not necessarily.

You’re work as a leader entails seeing the growth in others as well as what’s right in what they’ve brought to the game.

It can be a downward spiral when you only focus on the wrong and cease to search for the value someone brought to the task – even if it’s different than what you asked for.

The only real failure is the failure of someone not trying: not trying to do something right … and not trying to see what’s right in the wrong.

Stay Positive & Wrong Doesn’t Have To Be If We’re Open To It

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