“What’s The Opportunity?”

Garth Beyer

We can rant about a lot.

On an almost daily basis you can hear me ranting about original content, stealing ideas, and poor marketing, but I follow it up and challenge others who rant to me to, at the end of the rant, state what the opportunity is.

Work scenario

Rant: There’s not enough Back To School content online to repin, stupid 80/20 rule on Pinterest

Opportunity: We can own the Back To School realm of Pinterest by creating 50 pieces of original Back To School content

Life scenario

Rant: It’s so difficult to make friends!

Opportunity: I can’t be the only one who feels this way. I suppose I can work more on being a friend to people instead of trying to find someone to be my friend.

Next time you catch yourself complaining, ranting, angry about a situation, ask yourself, what’s the opportunity?
Stay Positive & There’s Always An Opportunity

In The Box Podcast

Episode 20: Not Knowing, New Info, Focus vs Multitasking And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we chatted about effectively managing time, how one comes to terms with their own mortality, if we operate better while multitasking, how to come to terms with not knowing and how to shed old worldviews.

Episode 20: Not Knowing, New Info, Focus vs Multitasking And More

Time – How do you effectively manage your time? (One tool/tip)

Mortality – What is one way you come to terms with your own mortality?

Focus vs Multitasking – Is our power/intellect at its prime when we focus on one thing or does multitasking require more skill?

Not knowing – How can we come to terms with not knowing? ex: not knowing if it will work, not knowing if we should try, etc.

New Info – How do you critically engage new info that is different from a previously held strong belief?

 

Stay Positive & What’s One Way You Mange Your Time?

You’re Not The Only One

Garth Beyer

You’re not the only one who is self-conscious about your work.

You’re not the only one stressing about a similar (or the same!)  project.

You’re not the only one pressured with a deadline.

Fear isn’t singling you out. It’s targeting everyone. Being afraid doesn’t make you special like I once thought it did.

No. You’re not the only one, and acknowledging it now offers you peace of mind. In fact, recognizing you’re not the only one facing a struggle gives you all the more reason to face it, not only for yourself, but for all those who are near giving up.

 

Stay Positive & Do It For You, But Also Them

Looking For Help

Garth Beyer

Crows look for certain gestures of other crows for signs of danger or food.

Prairie dogs pop out of their holes to find the dog on watch duty.

Dung beetles, when lost, look to the milky way for help.

I look to Seth Godin and local PR agency presidents and directors for help.

Where do you look?

 

Stay Positive & You Are Looking, Right?

Tracking Changes

Garth Beyer

tracking changes

I’m a sucker for the tracking changes function of a word document, who doesn’t love to leave their mark on something?

I wonder what would happen if you woke up 5 minutes earlier or exchanged your cooler-talk at work to leave your mark on the Internet instead. One blog post.One bread crumb. One foot print.

This is a bit out there, but you’ll get the point: People are fascinated by dinosaur foot prints. Did you think dinosaurs cared what people thought when they walked around leaving their giant, menacing, quite ugly foot prints around? No.

If they did, they would have likely made them look better, would have stepped a bit lighter, would have covered up the faults in their foot prints so no one could see one talon was longer than the others, but in doing so we wouldn’t care about dinosaur foot prints anymore.

In the long run, what makes people (you!) remarkable is two-part: you share what’s happening in your life in some form AND you don’t concern yourself with what people will think about it.

Hard to do… that is, unless you’re a dinosaur.

 

Stay Positive & Rawr

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What’s Next?

Garth Beyer

I get giddy every day when I can ask myself the question. To me it’s like asking a cute girl to boogie with you at a high school dance (apologies for using the word boogie, I didn’t want to write “dance” twice).

But, instead of a girl, it’s really opportunity. Even better. It’s a chance to make sense of chaos, to refocus on something different and valuable, to own your next endeavor.

Those I see unhappy at the workplace are those who are petrified when they’ve got to answer the question of what’s next. Shouldn’t your boss be telling you? Where is she? You better go ask her.

Being faced with endless choices is tough, but exciting, no? Don’t sell your opportunities short. What you see in front of you may not be all there is to choose from.

If you’re not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity. – Seth Godin

 

Stay Positive & Go Ask Her To Dance