Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Idols are special. You hope one day to fill their shoes. Maybe you hope to be better than them!
Which makes me wonder, what if you ran into your idol today, would they be impressed?
Are you reading the same books they are? Practicing as much as they are? Connecting with all the right people like they are? Waking up at the same time they are?
On how many levels can you connect with your idol?
Stay Positive & Just A Get Check
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What can you do to increase the value of the experience, exchange or interaction with your customer?
It’s a far better question to ask (and answer) than what can you do to get more customers?
Adding more seats isn’t the answer you or potential customers want.
Stay Positive & Better Not Bigger
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To do better work, you don’t need spend energy on focusing harder. Doing so typically leads to burnout.
Better to remove more things, the clutter, the to-dos, the distractions.
It’s a lot smarter (read: easier) to remove what’s creating the frenzy than it is to try working within it.
Stay Positive & Remove To Improve
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When you’re randomly picked.
When you are public speaking.
When you need to present your idea.
When you’re opening yourself up to feedback.
Take a deep breath.
Nothing will keep you from being flustered as much as a deep breath or two.
Breathe even if you think you’ll look weird doing so. You’ll look a lot less weird than if you’re up there flustered.
Stay Positive & Breathe
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The reason things take time is because people take time.
It takes time to build trust and to get on the same page as another person, let alone more than a thousand people or a million.
It takes awhile of being around someone where you can start to work as a team and not get in the way of one another.
It takes time for customers to meet with 10 different friends and refer you to them.
There is no complete shortcut of time, but there is enjoying the journey more than the other guy.
Stay Positive & It Starts With Acceptance, Of Course
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When you have a challenging client, they push you to be better, to put yourself in their shoes, to ask (and answer) questions you would never think of asking (or answering).
In rising to the challenge, you build skills that will help you in future interactions, in other work situations and life, in general.
But what if your client, boss, coworker, spouse, friend, parent, neighbor and internet troll don’t challenge you?
The worst part about waiting for the challenge, is that it might not come.
Stay Positive & Seek The Challenge (Or Challenge Yourself)
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Asking questions will build your knowledge base, it’ll give you the assurance you need to make a decision, it’ll give you the confidence to see an endeavor all the way through.
Asking questions is a super power in my book.
Stay Positive & You Don’t Need A Cape
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