Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Key mindset of preparation is to prepare for more.
More photos during a shoot.
More customers in line.
More online orders.
More special requests.
More people referring friends.
Can your business handle more? It ought to.
Stay Positive & More Is More
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Feedback is a lot like planting a tree.
The best time to have done it is years ago.
The next best time is now.
Give the feedback in the moment, before it builds.
You’ll help yourself and the other by doing so.
Stay Positive & Sooner Than Later
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It takes time to come up with an idea.
It then takes time to finesse the idea.
If you try to combine the two actions, you’ll end up with codswallop.
Stay Positive & Respect The Process
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It’s incredibly easy to churn out content.
All your ideas out in the ether in a matter of minutes.
Now what’s widening the gap between quality content producers and noise-makers is the time devoted to reviewing, proofing, double checking and confirming the content we make will actually resonate with the person we’re talking to.
We must be the editor, the proofer, the spot-checker and first-reviewer of the content we make.
But we need to view and act on it as a separate role from the content creation itself otherwise things get messy and missed, and we begin to lose the trust of those we’re trying to reach.
Stay Positive & Cross Your Ts
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There’s the free market.
There’s the mass market.
There’s the farmer’s market and the crashing market.
And, of course, there’s your market.
Bigger isn’t better, it’s just bigger.
Your market can be whatever size you want that works for you.
Stay Positive & You Get To Choose
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If you’re working to label the work as a success or failure, you’re missing the point.
Success and failure are distractions from the goal of learning.
The mind gets crowded and loses sight of what matters to grow.
Success and failure lead to two emotional extremes, too, both effectively working against you.
Better to take things in stride, to focus on the long run, to learn and proceed moving forward.
Stay Positive & As The Wind Blows
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Hoping the customer doesn’t notice or the client doesn’t call you out isn’t an effective strategy.
If something is wrong, own it and find out how to make things right.
If something was missed, communicate early and often how you’re resolving the issue.
No one has been upset from having another care that they receive what they bought into.
And if they get more, even better.
Stay Positive & Deliver On Your Promises
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