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Ol’ Zig had the saying that you can have anything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want in life.

It’s a beautiful strategy, but lacks the tactic to support it.

It’s not about you running around and getting what someone needs, it’s about lending a helping hand in a way that makes it easier for them to get what they want. (The reality is they are the ones who need to get it, not you.)

Consider the phrase “I’ll take care of it.” You can give someone peace of mind on one thing so they can focus on getting what really matters to them.

The quickest way to move up is helping people, and you help people by making it easy for them in whatever way you can imagine.

 

Stay Positive & What Can I Take Care Of For You?

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How big do you want to get?

Do you want to get famous enough that everyone knows your name? Do you want to make just enough to happily raise a couple of children? Do you want to be well-known in a specific social circle or neighborhood?

Knowing the end goal makes it infinitely easier to craft the path to it.

 

Stay Positive & Get Big To Be Better, Not Just To Be Big

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Certainly it’s not your fault.

It’s not the manager’s.

Not the intern’s.

Not the receptionists, CEO’s or even the city’s.

Probably not your family’s.

Not your friend’s fault, either.

Probably not that one person whose name you can’t remember.

It’s not fate’s fault.

Your co-worker isn’t to blame.

Not your dog’s fault.

Not your neighbor’s dog, either.

In all the time you work to find someone to blame, you could have moved on.

 

Stay Positive & You Win The Blame Game By Not Playing It

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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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