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Stay Positive & I Never Thought It Could Be Summed Up In 13 Ways
Garth E. Beyer
Keep A Job
Maybe it’s not your current job, but keep a job while you follow your passion and make your art.
If you hate your current job. Find another that you can bear, that you at least like, that gives you flexibility with time. For two reasons.
1. You need the flexibility of time to work on your passion. You may even discover that you can use your job time to do the real work of your passion.
2. When your focus is to excel in your passion rather than your job, a surprise promotion, raise, bonus, or even donuts on Friday morning are ever the better.
Don’t think you need to drop everything you have to focus on your passion. That’s just dumb. And if you think that’s what it will take for you to succeed in your passion, you may want to reconsider the passion you have.
Stay Positive & You Can Do Both (what pays the bills + follow your heart)
Garth E. Beyer
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Popeye’s Error
Sadly, Popeye is becoming less popular. It’s hard to come by someone younger than 20 who thinks of Popeye when I say, “I yam what I yam!”
While the fading memory of Popeye as a character is saddening, what’s worse is the decumbent understanding of Popeye’s Error.
It’s easy to figure that Spinach profit was long and prosperous after Popeye hit the television. What few ask though: why Spinach?
Why couldn’t Popeye eat nails, or grit, or gunpowder?
In 1870, the German chemist Erich von Wolf tested the amount of iron within spinach and in his reporting, he incorrectly placed a decimal point so that it read that there is 35 milligrams of iron in Spinach rather than 3.5. As a result of the high amount of iron in spinach, Popeye was given it to become strong and mighty – a true sailor.
This fact – Popeye’s Error – is one we must continue to remember. Success takes critical inquiry and the story of Popeye is the outlier, the rare case when making a measurable error leads to something remarkable.
It hurts to fail. It hurts worse to fail and have others succeed by feeding off your failure.
Stay Positive & Unless It’s Intentional (in that case, I think we should talk)
Garth E. Beyer
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Comments
Quick note about my earlier post. It’s fair to read the comments if you follow two rules.
1. Read the comments that are helpful. Skip the ignorant ones.
2. Do not read the comments on your own work unless you can handle being intentionally torn down.
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Worth A Read
What Size Would You Like
I’ve had it with all the different cup size names (e.g., trenti, kid, venti, grande, sixteen, large, extra-large, power, original, regular).
Here’s a quick solution: Let people pick out their cup as they get in line.*
Sometimes being creative is a set-back. It’s fun to make different names for sizes (whether they make sense or not), but not everyone can keep up. If you had the option to appeal to all customers and lose some or appeal to all customers and keep all, it’s clear which is the better choice.
Yet, in an effort to stand out, businesses sacrifice some customers that, if time would be taken, could otherwise be kept. Note, the best kind of creativity is the uncomplicated kind.
Stay Positive & Have Fun But Keep It Simple
Garth E. Beyer
*The take-it-too-far part of me would insist that you could give customers markers to color their cups while they wait in line. Have them write their own name on it too. Starbucks never spells it right anyway. (But they do when I say Voldemort. -sigh-) And yes, there will be a line at a place where you don’t have to figure out what cup size to order, ending up feeling like an idiot when you order it wrong.
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Cutting Time
There’s beauty in spending an extra two minutes to make a connection. There’s beauty in ignoring your watch and making someone’s day. There’s beauty to extending a deadline to double-check your work.
Equally, there’s beauty in cutting time.
To do the painstakingly hard work of caring more than anyone else – about your work and about those closest to you. Sometimes they conflict and that’s okay so long as you’re doing one of them.
Stay Positive & Do The Hard Work
Garth E. Beyer