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There’s a solid correlation between how much a person feels they have skin in the game and how much effort, energy, care, and attention they put into the work at hand.

Then, as a leader, is it your responsibility to simply tell people what needs to be done, perhaps with a detailed job description and checklist? Or is a leader’s responsibility to make someone feel like they’re part of something?

Two totally different leadership models.

Sometimes they might even get the same results, depending on the goal.

But one is pretty damn obviously more fulfilling for those being led.

Stay Positive & What Leader Will You Be Today?

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There’s really no other relationship worth getting into other than a win-win.

The best leaders, marketers, and friends are the ones to evaluate if they’re in a win-win situation the fastest. If they’re not, they move on. No point forcing it and no point in waiting around to see if they’ll ever get their win.

Stay Positive & The Way To The Top Is Together (With The Right People)

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Ah, the next thing is so damn shiny. I get it.

But what if you took a little extra time to try to make this thing more fun?

How about more remarkable?

How about tweaking it to make it for someone else you didn’t originally attend?

There’s so much that we can do with what’s in front of us.

Hell, it might just be something better than the new thing we wanted to jump to.

Stay Positive & Better Is Better, After All

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Maybe you don’t see that light at the end of the tunnel.

That’s no reason not to keep moving forward.

Maybe you don’t see the destination on the map yet.

Maybe you’re just not sold on that final transaction.

In an effort to stay safe and comfortable, we often convince ourselves that we might as well stay where we’re at since we can’t see that end spot that we want to be.

The same goes for waiting for the right answer or the perfect person to help or that winning lottery ticket.

There are a few hundred or so reasons to stay put and hold off.

Acknowledge them, sure, then keep going on.

Stay Positive & Forward Is The Goal

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It’s pretty hard to justify this statement when it’s put up to scrutiny.

Jumping on a forum thread might not be worth your time, but if it converted one sale and that sale was $1,000 – was that still not worth your time?

It’s a very fine statement to make when we’ve done the emotional and mental labor of truly evaluating the ask, the work and the potential results (and then being okay with those results).

It’s a very terrible statement to make when we do it to hide, mitigate our workload or shrug off a potential customer/audience.

More often than not, if you spend an extra minute thinking about it, it’s worth your time after all.

Realizing that worth also makes the doing part easier, too.

Stay Positive & Worth Taking A Moment Before Disregarding The Action

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You’ll never be the target you’re after.

No matter how closely you identify with them, you’re not them.

You can be an intermediary for them, though.

You can listen to the words they use and share them back.

You can listen to the narratives each one is telling themselves about your product or service and adjust it accordingly.

You can listen to the emotion behind the words they use when they talk about your brand.

You can listen and, with empathy, direct them on the path that leads to a win-win for you both.

Doing any marketing without listening, though? Ha.

Stay Positive & Meet Them Where They Are

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Champions win awards. They wear the belt. The spotlight is on them.

But none of that is what makes them a champion.

What makes them a champion is that they’re looked up to; people are inspired by them.

We don’t need champions because we want things done for us. We want champions because we want help believing we could do it ourselves if we put our mind to it.

Stay Positive & Will You Be A Champion Today?

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