Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Parts of life are not like a glass of water. It’s not visible when the glass is full.
A full glass…obviously, can’t take on more water.
Easy enough to dump some water out to make room.
Less easy in life.
The hack?
The faster you can move things, the more space you can create.
(It’s not about closing a door. It’s about finishing a room and then closing the door.)
Stay Positive & Knock Knock
You can spend a lot of time figuring out a differentiator or creating one if you don’t have one.
If you want to dominate the market, you need at least two differentiators.
One is easy, though. Give a damn more…Care more.
“No one cares about you as much as us” goes a longgggg way.
It does one more thing: it forces you to have an incredibly special other differentiator because giving a damn encompasses a lot of actions that others would deem a differentiator.
If your goal is market dominance; this is the way.
Stay Positive & Give The Biggest Damn…Then What?
It’s quite simple: if you can look back and feel fulfilled about what you did…that’s productive.
If you can look back and feel you should have done something else…that’s busy.
Coolest part about this evaluation?
You don’t need to wait for it to be in the past. You can play the scenario out in your head and know before you even start the work.
Stay Positive & What’ll It Be Today?
The act of following up on something somehow triggers the lizard brain more than normal.
“They’ll read it when they read it.”
“I don’t want to bug them.”
“They probably don’t care.”
The list could go on and on.
Yet, following up is equally the easiest action to take to get momentum again.
Stay Positive & Nudge Nudge
If you don’t like what you’re feeling. Why? Where’s the source? Can you change it?
If you don’t like the way the team is working together (or, ya know, not working together)… can you pinpoint the source of the tension? Can you change it?
It’s incredibly hard to change the direction a boulder is rolling at the bottom of a hill.
It’s worth looking up to see where it’s starting and see if you can alter that.
No amount of finesse, polish, or last-minute work can correct a project or relationship that’s wrong at the source.
What you’ll find at the top of the mountain is that it’s actually easy to redirect the boulder before letting it roll.
The climb up however, is what sets you apart from the others.
Stay Positive & Make The Climb, Change The Source
I’ve never heard anyone complain about having a second pair of eyes on any of their work.
Maybe they didn’t like the talk track that came with it, but that’s different than having someone engaged in helping you with your work. The simple act of asking someone for their eyes is the level of accountability one needs to get to “good enough.”
It’s a curious measurement: how much work do you get a second pair of eyes on before you ship?
You probably don’t need four eyes to see that it could be more.
Stay Positive & See More, Ship More
It’s a simple goal for any relationship regardless of context: sales meeting, happenstance interaction, friend group meetup… you name it.
Stay Positive & There’s More With You Than You Realize
