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You often review messages for spelling mistakes before you hit send, but an email without grammatical errors isn’t enough.

More than proofing copy, consider analyzing how the message will make the recipient feel and shift how you say something to get the emotional response you want.

What you’ll discover is that it’s difficult to miss a letter or comma when you’re writing from your heart, making an emotional connection, and writing to evoke a positive response. (And even if you do, it matters a lot less.)

 

Stay Positive & Rewrite On

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It’s rare when the majority of monkeys on your back are ones you placed there yourself.

More often, it’s someone else’s monkey.

“Can you provide feedback on this?”

“Here’s the report, will you pass it on?”

“Invites can’t go out until you select a date. Can you do that?”

The smartest of managers recognize that there is a threshold where one can no longer handle the number of monkeys on one’s back. The beauty of this is that you can count them and have a general idea of the number of monkeys you can handle.

Knowing your limit helps you better assess when to take on another monkey or when you need to focus on putting them back on someone else’s back.

 

Stay Positive & Manage Yourself

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Neither of you are right, either.

When it comes to the stories we tell about the actions we take, all that matters is if we are understood, not if we are right or wrong.

 

Stay Positive & Am I Right?

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There’s not much more empowering than understanding that you’re free to change.

To change your mind or the way you work. To change your worldview or the way you interact with your significant other. To change the groups you devote your time to. To change something that’s been done one way as long as you can remember.

Most change is for the better, whether we realize it right away or not.

 

Stay Positive & Always Change, Always Improve

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90% of what can be learned can be learned by watching, reading and thinking.

The remaining 10% can only be learned by doing. By making the mistakes yourself. By pushing boundaries.

Of course, the percentages aren’t accurate, but the point remains: You’re gonna have to fail to learn 100% of what you need to learn to be successful in your trade.
Stay Positive & Might As Well Fail Early And Fail Often

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No one enjoys being the bearer of bad news, but to run a successful business, you must.

Fortunately, there are ways to do it authentically, full of care, with complete empathy… and, of course, with a line of sight toward a better story. Sure, maybe it’s still imperfect, but it’s better.

No one will seek a solution until they understand their problem. Sometimes they realize it on their own. Most of the time, though, they need you to show they’re doing it wrong and that there’s a better way.

 

Stay Positive & Ready To Tell A Better Story?

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The only real requirement for one that wants to simplify a process, an interaction, a business model is that one must be willing to go against the grain, challenge the status quo and hold one’s ground as those around say “We’ve always done it this way.”

Confidence isn’t an option for simplicity, it’s a requirement.

 

Stay Positive & You Do Want It To Be More Simple, Right?

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