In The Box Podcast

Episode 14: Systematic, Free time, Online Shopping And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we answered the question whether there is such a thing as a dumb question, if we thought we had more free time now than 10 years ago and what is special about dust. Weird, I know, but there is a reason.

When you listen, you’ll also hear us discuss how to present information to people you know who will disagree with you, how to go from a want/should to a will/do, and quite a lot about online shopping.

Episode 14: Systematic, Free time, Online Shopping And More

Asking questions – Is there such a thing as a stupid/dumb question?

Free time – Do you think we have more free time now then we did 10 yrs ago?

Information – what is the best way to present info to folks who disagree with you?

Systematic – How do you go from a want/should to a will/do?

Online shopping – is online shopping worth it?

Dust – What is something special about dust, what gets you excited about dust?

 

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Correction Respect

Garth Beyer

Sometimes words come out our mouths before we think about them. After spewing them, we think what we should have said instead.

If you want to be respected, don’t think how you’ll say the right thing next time, don’t think how this won’t happen again, say what you should have said.

Correct yourself out loud.

When you fail in any shape or form, it doesn’t make you better to not make the same mistake twice, it makes you better to correct the mistake you made in the first place.

You’ll be surprised by how others respond and how you feel.

 

Stay Positive & Don’t Wait To Say The Right Thing

Starting With Shirts

Garth Beyer

A startup in town started by handing out shirts with their logo and website on them to people who have never used the startup’s service.

A summer camp in my hometown started as a summer camp and got t-shirts the second year of camp.

The difference is critical to recognize. The former sought advocates without converting strangers into customers – a sort of blind advocacy, if you will.

The latter promoted inclusivity by providing a way for camp attendees to label themselves as part of a tribe that has gone through the same experience together.

Let’s not confuse handing out t-shirts, online badges, and bracelets with building a tribe.

 

Stay Positive & Tribes Connect On Experiences, Are You Offering That?

They Did The Work

Garth Beyer

I’m not sure why so many people seek out shortcuts to being successful in the field they’re interested in when it’s so obvious there isn’t a shortcut.

“How did you become such a great writer?”

“How did you become such a successful improv actor?”

“How did you become so muscular?”

They read and wrote. They practiced improv on a regular basis. They lifted a lot of weights.

The closest thing to a shortcut you will get is figuring out how to be more passionate than others, more willing to fail than others, more motivated to write, to act, to lift.

There are no shortcuts to being great at some form of art, but there are shortcuts to being more passionate about it.

 

Stay Positive & Ask How They Got Passionate About Their Practice

If You’re Going To Do It…

Garth Beyer

I grew up with my dad telling me that if I’m going to do something, I better do it right.

I’ve since expanded on it, and began sharing the view with others.

If you’re going to do something, do it so it exceeds expectations. Do it better than right. Do it in a way the receiver, viewer, client, customer wouldn’t have imagined you to do it.

You can make something right, but you can also make something wrong for all the right reasons.

 

Stay Positive & Take The Chance To Do Things Better, But Differently Too

Make Friends And Be A Better Marketer

Garth Beyer

It’s easier to make friends when you be a friend.

Easier to sell to a prospect when you’ve been in their shoes.

Easier to experience the world  of marketing when you permit yourself to be wrong.

 

Stay Positive & Do The Uncommon Thing

The Voices In Our Heads

Garth Beyer

Are not the ones we want to let do the handwork, the grunt work, the creative work for us.

Caring a lot about doing good work doesn’t mean you need to listen to the voices in your head critiquing your work, constantly whispering that it could be better, that you might as well give up because you won’t get it perfect, and it should be perfect.

Real creative work – the valuable stuff – comes from shunning the voices in your head and speaking as a human, just putting yourself out there.

You may not create something remarkable on your first shot, but it gives you a better place to work from than if you think too much about it (and people who think too much are really saying they’re talking with the voices in their end, trying to reason with them, and there simply is no reasoning with the lizard brain).

We have 60 seconds before the lizard brain speaks up when we’re faced with a decision to purchase a product or not. I’ve noticed the same time frame when pitching on the phone and writing creative posts for clients.

60 seconds before we begin to lose our human touch and the lizard brain takes over.

Follow your heart when purchasing. Don’t think about all the scenarios that can happen once you dial the phone, just pick it up and go. And most importantly, write right away. You can always return the product, give someone else a call, and revise your writing.

The point is to start and speak from the heart, not the head.

 

Stay Positive & Don’t Let The Voices In Your Head Stop You