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Sausage tastes amazing. There’s so many variants, so many toppings, so many unique recipes.

Watching sausage get made isn’t that fun.

It’s concerning. If you’ve ever watched sausage get made, you probably wondered how the heck it would turn out to be something anyone likes.

A lot of the remarkable work in the world was made like sausage.

It’s okay if you’re the one making sausage–you know that it’s going to work out in the end.

From an outsider perspective, it’s hard not to try to change the process, it’s hard not to freak out about what the end result will be, it’s hard not to put a halt to it.

But we need our sausage.

Stay Positive & Let’m Keep Making It

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Celebration doesn’t need to be a major event.

It doesn’t require invites and postage or clever RSVP emails.

You don’t need a hundred other people to celebrate a milestone of yours.

The best way you can celebrate is by noticing that something is worth celebrating. You observe your heart rate increasing, you hear your little squeal of excitement, you catch yourself smiling.

Too often we go through life and work without celebrating moments big or small.

If it means we need to change how we celebrate to make sure we do–that’s a change worth making.

Stay Positive & What’ll You Celebrate Today?

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Here’s the secret to disruption.

Keep doing what you’re doing so long as what you’re doing is for the target.

Those who make the meaningful impact show up again and again and take customers where they hope to go.

They don’t make cuts because of a bottom line or because they don’t want to do the emotional labor. They don’t switch the logo and revamp the website every other year. They don’t pay for a super bowl ad. They don’t pivot their marketing every time they have a bad sales weekend.

The successful disrupters almost do the opposite of what we think of when we think of disruption; they stick to their commitment to the people they sought to serve.

Stay Positive & Drip By Drip By Drip, Disruption Happens

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It’s worth a pause when you hear (or say yourself) that it’s a win-win situation.

Everyone loves winning, but at what cost? Empathy and connection?

And when will the feeling of winning fade? Will you still feel like it was a win-win five hours from now? Five weeks? Five years?

And who wins? You and another, surely, but is it the right people? The stakeholders? The customers? Your family?

Our win-win situations might not actually be the wins we set out to make.

Stay Positive & Worth A Double-Double Check

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Pain reminds you that you’re alive.

But so does friendship and love and camaraderie and compliments and a high five.

It can be great to be reminded we’re alive.

What if we helped others remember that today, too?

Stay Positive & Fist Bump

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There’s no quicker way to garner someone’s support than to have empathy.

There’s no smarter way to convince someone of a better way forward than first having empathy.

There’s no more strategic way to having someone buy into what you’re offering than show empathy.

There’s no better way to have a tribe follow you through a rough patch than to have empathy.

If you’re frustrated with your current situation, it could probably use more empathy.

Stay Positive & Toss A Little More In, Just Because

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In the pursuit of making a dollar, we can often enable a mix of people to dictate what our brand is, says and stands for.

No doubt we ought to be recognizing a problem and providing a solution – not forcing a solution on people who don’t have the problem.

But there’s still dissonance between what we want our brand to stand for and the people that kind of brand attracts.

Without a clear (and unwavering) idea of what we stand for and the people who will stand behind that, we can attract a lot of people who will test our willpower, who will verbally abuse the brand and who will make you question why you got into business in the first place.

It’s not always about awareness and it’s definitely not only about making a dollar. Each of those happen, however, when we know who we want to attract – and design for that in the first place.

Stay Positive & So, Again, Who Is It Attracting?

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