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You ignite a distinct dynamic teacher-student relationship when you are ever attentive and forward about your effort to learn.

Once teachers (not just public school, but friends, fathers and alike) begin to teach, it’s a short leap to getting frustrated and just doing it themselves.

When you come out of the gate and regularly remind the other that you’re trying your darnedest to learn, you simultaneously break down unnecessary (and often hindering and hurting) barriers to the process of teaching.

Sometimes you need to be as aggressive of a student as one may be a teacher.

 

Stay Positive & Nothing Keeps Another Humble Like Hearing “I’m Trying My Best.”

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Though fewer people are watching television, it’s becoming more valuable due to ones ability to share and connect with others around it. It is so much more than your family sitting around a TV, chatting during commercial breaks of Friends. Now it’s you and 50 of your closest friends texting, snapchatting, and tweeting about the real-time Game of Thrones plot-twist.

Less use doesn’t always mean less value. Sometimes it means more.

 

Stay Positive & Don’t Be So Quick To Hit The Power Off Button

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As often as I don’t care to imagine a negative outcome, let’s do it as an exercise.

Let’s say your idea is pitched with 19 other ideas. Only five get chosen. For the 15 who don’t get chosen, they have three options.

1. Run. Give up. Throw in the towel.
2. Figure out how to support the five who got chosen.
3. Choose yourself. Go make it happen without a voted approval.

Which do you choose?

If you guessed a combination of two and three, then you’re on point. The thinking that you can only choose one is often what leads entrepreneurs to choose the first option. They don’t realize the potential of themselves or those around them.

As ol’ Zig said, you’ll have everything you want once you help enough other people get what they want.

 

Stay Positive & Sometimes Choosing Yourself Means Choosing Others

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The less you’re attached, the more likely you’ll switch, and the more you’ll experience.

This is every marketer’s challenge: to convey a remarkable experience that doesn’t die down.

Dyson makes pulling out the vacuum an enjoyable task. Every. Damn. Time.

Flipping through songs on your iPod never gets boring.

Having a dedicated mug to yourself makes drinking beer (any beer) more fun.

So much is marketed as a one-and-done product, an item of instant gratification, a service of use or lose, and all to the dismay of the maker when she sees customers changing their minds, upgrading, and converting to her competitors.

However, it’s not always a matter of an inferior product or service. More often, it’s that we’re not telling the story right. We’re putting too much emphasis on the “try this” part than we are on the “every time you use it you will feel ____” part.

A remarkable product makes a customer feel like they are part of the change, and, that alone will halt them from trying something else.

 

Stay Positive & Does Your Customer Know What Change They’re Part Of?

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We’re supposed to be living in a connected world, right?

This is, after all, the connection economy.

I wonder, then, how many people you reached out to form a connection with yesterday?

How many virtual handshakes? How many gifts of your time did you give to someone new?

The only way to go up is to help (and be helped) by others.

I’d say it’s time to start connecting more. Wouldn’t you?

 

Stay Positive & It Starts And Ends With A Connection

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Your imagination isn’t something that’s simply unlocked and then your drowning in remarkable ideas.

It’s not a condition in which a task becomes easy to accomplish or, by sitting there and thinking, you’ll eventually find a new way of doing a job better.

Your imagination is a series small gifts that get opened as a reward of taking an action.

Once you begin to write a few sentences of a novel, your imagination rewards you with an extremely exciting sentence.

Once you begin DIYing a project, that’s when you begin to notice the ways you can deviate from the Pinterest guide you have open and really make it your own.

Consider that your imagination runs on a reward system–the more times you reach for the crayon, the more color your life gets filled with, but you have to reach, you have to take action.

 

Stay Positive & Waiting For Inspiration Is Worthless

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There’s an expression in the construction world of measure twice, cut once.

If you fail to double up on accuracy, you’re often cutting more wood, wasting time and resources.

Same goes for social metrics, KPIs and ROIs.

Usually in our haste to discover whether our hypothesis is correct, we miss a variable or read a measurement incorrectly.

Thinking “if something is wrong, someone else will catch it,” isn’t a valid reason for not measuring twice.

 

Stay Positive & Haste Makes Waste Too

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