Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Success is always late. It shows up in the after hours. It arrives after the party. It reveals itself when you’re run down and ready to call it quits. It shows up to those who stay up late but aren’t night owls.
Success will show up, but always long after you think it will.
Stay Positive & Success Isn’t Fashionable, Thus Never Fashionably Late
Garth E. Beyer
Businesses that price high and skip connecting with their customers will be sticking around.
People are gullible, they want the credibility that a well-known business has over private owners, no matter how exciting it is to interact with private owners.
My advice, when making a purchase of any sort (a motorcycle for example?), visit the businesses that overprice their material first. Get a feel for the product and ask the technical questions, then leave to visit a private owner.
That way you are more knowledgeable about the product and will see how much of a price difference people sacrifice to have the (illusive) credibility that a big business offers.
Buy from those who sell, not from those who manipulate.
Oh, and the best price comes from those who care about what they are selling, not just about selling it.
Stay Positive & Go Personal
Garth E. Beyer
I took the bus today and asked the driver if the bus he was standing by was the bus to Rockford. Without looking at me, he said, “yea, we’re just waiting on a passenger to get seated.” Now I’m on the bus waiting for it to take off and I’m nervous that I’m on the wrong bus. I don’t have trust in the driver.
Not because I think he’s lying but because he didnt’ convince me, he didn’t make it personal, and he didn’t take the time or attention that a passenger (equally, a customer) deserves.
I paid for the ride, but I also paid to be assured I would reach the destination I need to in the time I need to. It just so happens that I wasn’t.
Update: 20 minutes into the ride and he just got on the speaker to make an announcement for where we will be going, thanking us for being passengers, and filling us in on what we need to know while riding (safety procedures).
My question is: why not make the connection before a passenger gets in, not after?
I sat with slight anxiety thinking this may turn into more of an adventure than I had planned. While I have that attitude, many do not. When you have customers paying for you to keep your promise, it’s better to show them that you’re keeping it as early as possible. Saves them worry, anxiety, and nervousness (no matter how little).
Stay Positive & If You’re Customer Is Early, You Better Be Too
Garth E. Beyer
There’s marketing. And then there’s war.
Stay Positive & Let It Begin
Garth E. Beyer
Found this. Enjoy.
Click the picture twice for better focus on the print. Then save it to read again later.
Stay Positive & I Never Thought It Could Be Summed Up In 13 Ways
Garth E. Beyer
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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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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