Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Of course we don’t want to let it go. It’s ours now. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad. We own it.
Letting it go means we would have to change, to be uncomfortable again.
Letting it go means there’s space for something new and maybe something worse.
So we hold on. We try to live with it. But over time. It weighs us down. We stand still.
And you know what happens to those who stand still.
Stay Positive & Let It Go To Move Forward
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Opportunities are out there. There’s no doubt about it.
Yes, even the very specific opportunities you would love to be offered.
Of course, opportunities have a bit of an ego problem. They’re not willing to come to you. Often times, they don’t even meet half way. In fact, they sometimes don’t feel like opportunities at all because you have to work so hard to get them.
But that’s the true opportunity. The opportunity to leap.
Most of the greatest projects you’ve seen people create have been because they looked around, reached out and took the leap.
I’ll be speaking at a few events in 2018 not because I’m sought after, but because I asked a few influential people if I could.
Stay Positive & Go. Leap. Pick Yourself.
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Frequency matters to people when it comes to keeping your promises.
Are you putting your energy into the things that you can do with frequency for a year, two, ten?
They need you to show up in the right place with the same message.
They want validation. You want trust.
You both win when you show up.
Stay Positive & Show Up Again … And Again … And Again
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It would be nonsensical to think manual labor can occur without hard work, sweat and the feeling of exhaustion at the end of it.
Yet, why would you think emotional labor is any different?
Stay Positive & Power Through, Doesn’t Make Sense Not To
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I was out with a friend earlier and was reminded of a universal truth.
“That’s life. You’ve gotta have the door slammed in your face a few times.”
In another moment with a president of a marketing firm, he was sharing the times in his career he was most proud of. Two of the four experiences he shared were door-slamming moments when he was dealt a poor hand and had to face adversity.
It’s true that some of the positive experiences we have have a positive influence on us. More often than not, though, it’s the negative experiences that have the most positive impact.
Stay Positive & Keep Knocking
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I’m going down memory lane this birthday and thought I’d share some projects I’ve shipped over the years. Enjoy and thanks for letting me share these with you. Plenty more to come.
Beer Beat Reporting – 2017 News Features
Blunt Reminders To Be Bold – 2016 Slideshare
Transform: The Seminar That Saved Me From Myself – 2013 eBook
Start Schooling Dreams – 2013 Manifesto
Sleeping Above Your Dreams – 2012 Poetry
Parents Cost Us Money Too: What We Wish Our Parents Would Have Told Us – 2012 Riff
Stay Positive & Enjoy
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The beauty of the phrase “people like us, do things like this” is that it makes it easy to rationalize what to do as well as understand why others around you made the choice they did.
People like us wake up early in the morning.
And when your coworker leaves work early in the day? You can be upset or you can understand “people like us put family in front of our work.”
The deeper, more meaningful and beautiful part of the phrase, though, is the extension and connections it provides to who you are as a person.
Because people like us wake up early in the morning, we’re also more productive, feel more fulfilled and often tackle the toughest task of the day right away.
Turns out those who are generous, are often sincere, caring and inspiring, too.
People like us do things like this. Plural.
Stay Positive & People Like Us Choose Your Lifestyle Wisely
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