Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Cleanliness indicates more than something is sanitary.
It shows that someone cares. It shows someone is paying attention. It shows someone is looking at the big picture and isn’t sidetracked by the latest fire drill.
Sometimes it’s worth spinning an adage on its head to land on the fact that it’s worth treating your space the way you would treat someone else’s–with utmost respect and order.
Stay Positive & Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness
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We’re all aware of what the race to the bottom looks like.
Cutting corners. Competing on price. Making this widget that much smaller or that service that much more accessible.
The race to the top is a whole other outlook–one that’s often misperceived.
It’s not quite the opposite of racing to the bottom.
It’s not about making a more quality product.
It’s not targeting fewer people with better persuasive material.
The race to the top is achieved only by being more human, more personal, more empathetic.
People notice when you care. Truly care.
Stay Positive & Who Would Have Thunk?
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Not positive enough.
Not confident, ballsy, serious, analytical, caring, empathetic, funny, determined enough.
Before dismissing what attitude you’re not, it’s worth understanding that these are all skills.
Resilience is a skill. So is being insightful and appreciative.
A skill is something we can learn and get better at.
All it takes is practice.
Actually, no.
All it takes is to decide to use that skill. Then, over time, we’ll get better at it.
It’s amazing what attitudes we have access to once we decide to have the attitude of accessing them.
Stay Positive & What’ll It Be For You? Tenacious? Vulnerable?
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Some habits are more important than others because the energy and positivity from them gets channeled to other areas of life.
Some habits aren’t meant to be broken.
If you’re ready to develop a set of new habits; habits that will ultimately benefit all areas of your life, then sign up for this small, discussion and activity-based event I’ll be leading in Madison, Wisconsin.
It’s an hour and a half long and we’ll be digging deep into the activities that can benefit us most; the ones that if we show up, consistently, day after day, there’s no way we won’t win.
Sign ups are here.
Stay Positive & Scratch The Itch
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It’s ridiculous how many pages there are on the Internet that tell you how to control your emotions.
With so many, it must be possible to control them, right?
And feeling like you failed is just that–an emotion.
Something you can make appear, make disappear and ultimately control.
As for actually failing?
There’s not a guide out there that teaches you how.
Plenty that bring awareness to mistakes, that help you learn from missteps and miscalculations, but actual failure? Nope.
That means like the feeling of failure, it’s perception; it’s the mindset you have before during and after your stumble; it’s what you decide to feel and do after you noticed you feel like you failed.
Like most things in life–it’s a choice.
Stay Positive & You Choose, No One Else
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Taking feedback and resolving feedback are two different moments.
Resolving feedback restarts the loop of getting more.
Once feedback is resolved, it goes up for trial again.
If it’s resolved too soon, it often breaks down the motivation of the one resolving it.
Often times it’s better to prolong the loop and simply write the feedback down.
Take the feedback. Sit with it. Let it marinate, decant, and ferment.
In every room, you have the choice to take the feedback or resolve it.
Rarely is resolving it right then and there the best action to take.
Stay Positive & Patience Is A Feedback Virtue
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Screw your wants. They shouldn’t matter.
Your desires are dismal compared to what others want from you.
In the list of priorities, what you want shouldn’t make the list. It’s unreasonable to consider what you want to be more important than what others want from you.
Forget the school you want to be picked by (and definitely forget picking yourself) and go with what others say.
Drop the significant other, don’t leave your cog job, and definitely stop pursuing that dumb art that will never turn into anything because that’s what someone you respect told you to do.
Today and everyday, you’ll have to decide if I’m joking or not.
Stay Positive & Stand For Something
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