I don’t think I need to say anymore. You know what to do.
Stay Positive & Go Do It
Garth E. Beyer
The Quick And Short Way
Robert Frost never got to finish his sequel. His sequel goes something like this: “After taking the road less travelled, I soon found myself at another fork in the road.”
When one stops looking for the quick and short way, and instead goes the route of challenges, obstacles, and facing fear, the long and rough shapes itself into the quick and short.
Most people realize this, however, its “tragic” because now you have to do the long and rough more often.
Stay Positive & It’s Scary, But Not A Bad Thing
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The Best Time To Start
The best time to start is when you have all your ducks in a row.
Th best time to start is when you are fully invested for.
The best time to start is when you have a safety net.
The best time to start is when someone waves the green flag.
The best time to start is when success is a guarantee.
The thing is. The best time to start isn’t the only time to start.
It just so happens that the way to bring the best time to start in your life is to start when things are ambiguous, when they are uncertain, when it’s not safe, when you feel uncomfortable, when it’s a heartfelt risk.
Stay Positive & Start Now
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Now
is always the best time to start.
There’s a wonderful reminder that I’ve worked up to counter the most common reason to not start now: you’re already behind.
I call it the One Bite Away reminder.
Imagine you start a diet (maybe you are currently on one) and things are going great. You’ve lost a few pounds, built some muscle, and even feel better. But then you begin snacking over the weekend.
Now you’re behind.
And since you’re behind, you might as well toss the diet plan. You messed up. You failed. Forget it. Maybe next year. Maybe in the summer. Maybe when you get enough motivation to ask someone to do it with you. Maybe when you build up to it again. Maybe when you get your feelings hurt.
Why we don’t realize that being slightly behind is a lot better than continuously getting further behind, I don’t know.
What I do know is that when you are behind, you’re only One Bite Away from getting back on the diet, back in the groove, back in the zone.
Seems pretty simple when you put it that way doesn’t it? One bite – not one hundred bites, not a week behind, not five pounds. One bite.
That’s how it is with any “diet.”
Stay Positive & Don’t Beat Yourself Up. You’re Just One Bite Away
Garth E. Beyer
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Two-Pronged Tactic To Change
To change your life in whichever way you want, you have to change your thinking, your view, your thoughts, your mind – change what you think. You have to change what you see, and the quickest way to do that is also the fastest thing you can do: change what you think.
With hundreds of thousands of thoughts every day, changing your mental pictures isn’t difficult. I always take respite in knowing that the single most sure way to stop any negative feelings is to stop thinking about what is causing those feelings.
- To change what happens on the outside, just change what happens on the inside.
The second tine in the two-pronged attack is the real battle: changing our actions to reflect our thinking.
If I am feeling lonely (everyone is) and I start thinking about hanging out with friends, the change in thought and feelings are only temporary. I have to then perform praxis. I have to do the action which is the result.
Praxis is about boldness and boldness is the willingness to initiate action without guarantee of results. And you can’t be bold until you come to terms mentally.
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“What we do comes out of who we believe we are.” – Rob Bell
Stay Positive & The Two-Pronged Attack Is Actually A Cycle
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We Are All Self-Employed
so what are you President of?
Stay Positive & Jobs, Bosses, Pay Checks Change. We Are The Only Constant.
Garth E. Beyer
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If Shipping Is An Event
If shipping is an event for you, you’re not doing it like an artist.
Events are for gatherings, huge interactions, and personal conversations with someone willing to contribute as much, if not more than you.
Events are for seminars and being the star of a publicized interview about your latest art.
Events have less to do with consistency, and more to do with the spontaneity of acknowledgment.
The actual shipping of your art is a habit, not an event. It’s meant to be a constant and predictably unpredictable action. Risk, over and over and over again leads to success. Risk once in a while just keeps you alive while you stand still.
Stay Positive & Make Your Art Into Your Sweet Disposition
Garth E. Beyer