Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
You can’t manage what you don’t measure.
There’s no point in measuring vanity metrics.
The quantitative data is missing the qualitative edge.
Your perception isn’t the same as the target audience’s.
Your target came in frustrated today because someone cut them off.
You’re trying to be better person, which means growing in your career, which means trying to manage your work better.
But you can’t manage what you don’t measure…
Stay Positive & Sometimes The Answer Isn’t The Point, The Thinking Is
Sometimes better is defined by bigger.
Sometimes when it comes to mistakes, more is actually better.
Sometimes better is better.
One thing is true about mistakes though: fewer is not better, smaller is not better, unimpactful is not better.
Stay Positive & If You’re Not Making Any Mistakes, You’re Not Pushing
Making it clear you give a damn is the best signal you can send in any attempt of progress or elevation or attraction.
You don’t have to be the smartest in the room.
Don’t have to wear the shiniest of jacket.
You don’t even need to be the one with the microphone to make a difference.
There’s simply no other emotional action that resonates with others as much as making it clear that you give a damn: about the mission, the future, them, yourself…. which is really the long way of saying that you give a damn about the moment.
Stay Positive & Do You Think They Know You Do?
One of the best feelings in the world: seeing someone you know.
It’s what powers conference attendance.
But it requires one thing: you have to have met someone already.
So the challenge of any organizer is to decide: are you building something that connects people who don’t know eachother? or connects people who do?
So the challenge of any attendee is to decide: am I here to connect with someone new? or to connect with people I already know?
Oh, how we forget that one leads to the other.
Let’s not.
And I forgot to mention another best feeling in the world: connecting two people who you know but don’t know eachother.
Stay Positive & What Connecting Will You Do Today?
Watching the sun rise results in more than your belief that the sun is rising. It’s uplifting, positive; it changes your perception of the day. You’re a bit more optimistic.
Seeing ant and cockroach chemical spray bottles from the drive through window did more than make me believe there was a pest problem; I haven’t been back to the coffee shop since.
A messy house sends a signal. A website sends a signal. The gift you send sends a signal.
And the thing about signals? They ignite emotion.
It’s on us to make sure they ignite the emotions we want.
Stay Positive & What’ll You Show Today?
How much you make doesn’t matter as much as how much you spend.
Brushing teeth for two minutes actually makes a difference rather than one minute.
Washing the car, vacuuming, polishing, regularly now will lead to a greater trade in or resale value later.
The thing about thinking and the importance of it is that nearly always what’s most important is some long game, future-benefit that makes the present action actually matter.
Stay Positive & Think Ahead
Reckless isn’t as bad as we’ve framed it up to be in our heads.
Sure it means a reckless person is unconcerned about the consequences of their actions.
But it’s not that they are unaware of them; it’s actually the opposite.
They are so aware that there is no concern. They’ve learned to dance with the fear and still move forward.
Stay Positive & Go Ahead, Be Reckless
