No?
Well you better make it one.
Stay Positive & I Have Faith In You
Garth E. Beyer
Re: A Manual For Daily Adventure
You’re in rut. Maybe you agree, maybe you don’t care. But you are.
I can’t say that I am or was in a rut, but I could ALWAYS use more adventure in my life. Lucky for me, and now you, Michelle Welsch created a list of 80 ways to get started. She calls it her manual for daily adventure.
I was not going to accept the challenge at first, but after fighting the lizard brain, I said “What the hell? Let’s do it!”
I’ve done four out of the eighty ways to get started. I’ll keep you posted later in the week with more accomplishments.
Stay Positive & Adventurous
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Going After Growth
Plants are better than us. They grow taller, they accrue width, they are in the sunlight more than us, they stand stronger and admit it, when they lose a leaf or a branch they grow it back quicker too. Actually, I once wrote a haiku that went like this,
If A Tree Stays Standing in the Forest, And No One Is Around to Hear It
they sway in the wind
never break from much pressure
we must stand like trees
Trees or plants in general go after growth. They don’t wait for the sun to shine on them, or for it to rain, or for something to be thrown near it to feed off its nutrients. It goes after it!
The plant spawns its roots as far as it can to get as much carbon dioxide and nutrients as possible. It extends its leaves as far out as possible. It builds itself to acclimate, whether that means growing a thick strong stem that nothing can bring down or one that sways with the wind.
It’s in their genes, their programming, their ancestry – it’s what plants do. Us on the other hand, were given a tragic gift.
We can choose to live like a plant or not. And that choice makes all the difference.
So let me ask you, are you a Bonsai Tree or a General Sherman?
Stay Positive & Unlike Plants, You Have The Ability To Grow ANY Direction You Want
Garth E. Beyer
Enlighten Others
Coming To Terms
We all know what we need to do at any given time, during the rough patches and the smooth. No number of people we ask “what should I do” is going to help.
It’s the doing part that causes us to stop, makes us question what we are actually supposed to do, and search for the easy way out.
The thing about the doing is that it’s what you have to do. Not anyone else. You can question people what you should do all you want, but you can’t ask someone to do something only you can do.
The quicker you come to terms with it, the quicker you quit ignoring the action you need to take, the quicker you get in the habit of just doing what you need to do right away, the greater the acceleration of the quality of life you will have.
Stay Positive & The Only Direction Is Forward
Garth E. Beyer
W. Clement Stone, who built a hundred million dollar insurance company empire, would make all his employees recite the phrase, “Do it now!” over and over at the start of each workday. W. Clement himself would repeat it fifty times each morning when he would wake up and fifty times before he would go to sleep. Go with Nike or go with Stone, whatever it is, Just Do It and Just Do It Now.
Enlighten Others
There Is Always A Guarantee
People get nudges, hunches and feelings in their stomach that they are 100% right about something, without a doubt, it’s guaranteed.
That impulse, that intuitive response is what every PR Specialist must produce for every client. Whether it is a small guarantee of reaching a specific person in the audience you are reaching out to or as big of a guarantee as increasing profits by 67% within the first week and a half of implementing the new customer relations strategy you created.
There is no trust between you and your client without a guarantee. For a PR Specialist, that connection must be there because the success rate of your “guarantee’s” is what defines your credibility.
Making a guarantee is an act of colossal responsibility, and with this responsibility lies a power which is often abused. That power being the construction of a guarantee of outcomes in sectors of the strategy which you have no control or influence over.
To make a successful connection between you and your client (financially speaking as well), you must work to discover the largest guarantee you can make.
To make a successful PR Specialist, you must do this with every client and know that crossing the line even once can set you back further than where you began.
While you may believe that you will simply provide small, simple guarantees, you need to accept the fact that your credibility, your status, your repertoire is only as substantial as the guarantees you make and live up to.
Enlighten Others
Are You Encouraging Or Discouraging?
Right now, you are doing one or the other. 20 minutes from now, you will be doing one or the other. Five years from now, you will be doing one or the other.
There is no middle ground, there is no hideout or escape from it.
It is very simple; if you are not using your highest potential, if you are not trying your hardest, then you are discouraging others. When people look at you, they may judge you and stereotype you, but at the same time, they are either encouraged by you or discouraged.
“Either they draw inspiration and want to do likewise or they draw discouragement because they see us not doing the most with our ability that we can be doing with that ability” – Zig Ziglar
If you’re not discouraging, then your encouraging. Simple as that.
Stay Positive & If You Can, They Can
Garth E. Beyer