Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Behind every action is a person. Every comment is a person. Every sale is a person.
Especially, email. Behind every email is a person.
Not a robot, regardless if it’s an automated response.
Nor a void, even if the email goes unanswered.
It’s a person.
And when you remember it’s a person, a fellow human being, a brother of sorts, it changes your posture, how you talk, how you give and ask and interact.
For the better, too.
Stay Positive & Be More Human
I once had a manager tell me, “You will see your pay grow once you do.”
Instead of being upset, I laughed. It was too good of a line and all too accurate.
Those who get noticed and get rewarded are those who show up every day, consistently better than the day before (or at least trying to work toward being better every day).
Think about all the brands and influencers you know.
No doubt every single one of them keeps showing up, keeps growing and keeps diversifying themselves to be in more places (and to be more rewarded).
You might make it sticking to one platform, but you’re not going to make it BIG.
(Of course, it’s worth remembering what your goal is. Big doesn’t always equate to meaningful.)
Stay Positive & Seen Every Day
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If you’re like me, then you know there’s a lot of power in breath.
Maybe you read some posts about it or watched a Ted talk. Maybe you were raised with parents who taught you to take a breath every time you got flustered or maybe you’re a musical artist who relies on breath as your source of energy.
However you use it know that you can use it in a hundred other ways.
Breath isn’t just for a long rap sequence, it’s also for instilling confidence prior to a presentation.
Here’s the one thing about breath that no one told me.
Even when you force breath, when you actively try to control it, it still benefits you. It’s not like gravity in that the more you try to control it, the more it controls you.
Stay Positive & When In Doubt, Breathe It Out
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Maximize sales volumes of highly desired products.
Promote specific brands predicated on area demographics.
Match and quickly surpass the competition.
Establish retail/wholesale relationships.
Provide customer satisfaction.
Formulate community goodwill.
Ensure all activities are profitable for the company.
It’s an all or nothing world for brands. And the ones that stand out the most doing it all – and then at least one other thing exceptionally well – will continue to rule.
Gone are the days a brand can stand on a single pillar.
Stay Positive & Better Get To It
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Having confidence isn’t just comforting to you.
When you’re confident, even under pressure or failure, others feel comfortable in your confidence.
The moment you stumble and let your confidence flee, others begin to feel embarrassed for you.
Unique thing, to feel something for someone else even when it’s not you.
But we do it.
It’s why we feel happy when a friend wins a lottery or enters a new relationship. It’s why we feel motivated when someone starts a slow clap and why the best way to wake up in the morning is to be woken up by someone who loves mornings.
If you’re not going to fake it so you make it, at least fake it so others can.
Stay Positive & We’re Looking To You
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It doesn’t help to say you succeeded because of luck or you passed an exam because you’re smart.
It’s tough to say exactly what gives you luck and if your smarts were genetic or trained.
Better to pin your success (and your failures) on what you can improve.
You know, like gumption and persistence and social magnetism and a lot of studying.
In our effort of simplifying things, we lose sight (and let ourselves off the hook) of what got us here, and when we choose to ignore what got us here, it becomes infinitely difficult to get to get going to a better place.
Stay Positive & Keep It Real
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You can do what’s right and ethical and true to your mission statement later…ya know, once you get the ball rolling.
After all, you need a few hires, and sales are quicker to make by lowering the price (and your standards). Better to just get something out the door.
Thing is, I’ve never heard or remembered a great company starting out that way.
The greatest companies I know of started out doing what’s right, stayed doing what’s right and while some are extremely successful and well-known, others are still tiny – but still doing what’s right.
You don’t need to wait until later to do what’s right because the thing about later is that it might not come.
Stay Positive & Now Is Good
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