Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Put your favorite song on repeat for 10-20 minutes.
The repetition frees mental space you can use to focus more on the task at hand.
Consider it a form of productive meditation. The best are doing it.
Stay Positive & Productivity Is Music To The Ears
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Uber doesn’t quite work without people to rate its drivers.
Apple wouldn’t be as successful as it is if people didn’t feel like they had an influence on the design of it.
The coffee shop downtown didn’t start serving bulletproof coffee because the trend had a remarkable profit margin. They did it because they listened to a few who came in and asked for it at a time they didn’t have it. They said (through their action), “You know what, customer. You’re spot on. We’ll serve bulletproof coffee because of you. Thank you for making us better.”
The best brands that you and I know are the best because they listen, because they make you feel like without you, the product wouldn’t be as incredible as it is, maybe without your input they wouldn’t have tried to do business–Yes, to them you matter that much.
Not every brand can pull it off. A handful try to call it social listening. Others (the remarkable ones) design their brand to revolve around their target. They make a conscious (and to a degree, unconscious) effort to make you feel part of the product.
It feels good to be part of something bigger than yourself. What are you doing to get others to feel part of your product?
Stay Positive & Listen, Act, Listen, Act, Listen…
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Most books you’ll read won’t lead you to action.
You may think of many ideas that you ought to take action on, but you won’t. You may feel energized and ready to tackle a new project, but you’ll do it…tomorrow.
Motivation isn’t the feeling of being invincible or able to achieve your wildest dreams, that’s just imagination. By definition, motivation is the feeling that precedes action.
It’s with that fact that I can confidently say that very few books are truly motivating.
It begs the question though. Is it the author who can’t write motivating content or is it the person who wants the feeling of motivation without the emotional weight of doing something that scares them?
Stay Positive & It Happens To The Best Of Us
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We don’t know what we don’t know.
Every day I interact with products and services that blow my mind because I never thought I needed or could benefit from what they were offering. Millions of people every day wake up with the goal of making something better.
In the past, they used to make things better for themselves. Someone got tired of wiping the snow off their windshield while driving, so he invented windshield wipers. Now, however, the obvious has been fixed.
Now it requires a whole lot more effort and focus on what others are experiencing. It’s noticing how to make processes smoother, products more user-friendly, and people to actually care about the windshield wipers they use.
Now it’s about focusing on others, less on ourselves.
Stay Positive & Time To Level up
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On the path to creating remarkable work, you’ll be accomplishing the feat with others, but unless a person co-thought the idea with you, they’ll require on boarding.
The logistical process may be different by project or by company, but what stands true no matter where or what you’re working on is that you must define the big picture for those you’re on boarding.
Simply stated: The big picture is a way to communicate the goal and the reason for it so those who are new to the idea can begin motivating themselves. It requires you to step back and answer “What is it we’re really doing? And what for?”
I’ve written before that there is no map, but that’s not to say you can’t manifest a guiding light.
Stay Positive & All Aboarrrd
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Yawns are contagious.
So is negativity, a cootie, and a smile…
More contagious than a smile, though, is the energy you bring in the room that everyone feeds from, assimilates to, and seems to duplicate.
Every project you work on can be exciting to work on, but that’s only part of the overall energy. The other half is the energy those you’re working with have about it. Are they as excited as you?
Whether you know it or not (you do now), your energy and excitement about a project influences the excitement and energy of those you’re working with.
Keep that in mind next time you enter a room with colleagues. You’re not the only one there and you’re not the only one your attitude and energy levels influence.
It’s incredible the level that you can bring a project up to when you bring the contagious excitement.
Stay Positive & Bring Out The Best In Others By Bringing It Out In Yourself
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Connecting with a fan, igniting a feeling that they’ve been understood – it used to be a surprise and delight tactic for brands.
Marketing used to be one-way. A brand would yell, mass market and blanket an audience with advertisements and that one moment you got to speak to a human or that time they started with “we listened and…” was special.
Now it’s a given. It’s expected. It’s the entry fee to a loyal fan.
If you can’t get your target to feel that they are being understood (and it’s not something you can fake), then there’s no way you’ll make it.
Stay Positive & What Are You Doing To Make Your Target Feel Understood?
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