Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Gut check: When was the last time you sent a lengthy article or video to someone (that you consumed all the way through, too)?
We can get by with short and sweet, but we get ahead with the long and impactful.
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Is a sundae still a sundae without the cherry on top?
At some point, someone looked at a sundae with an interesting angle: let’s add a cherry on top.
That slight adjustment made all the difference.
It’s on us to think of the cherry.
Stay Positive & Look For A Few
There’s the leader (or leadership, really… most of the time it’s a group of people) that look inside the industry, at the balance sheet or merely at the horizon of the company to make decisions.
That works for some models… typically private equity, someone looking to sell quick, or an in-and-out leader. It works in the short run.
The long run, however, requires a leader (and yes, most of the time, it is just a leader and not all the execs) that look outside the industry, beyond the horizon to a point that it requires imagination, and a view of the balance sheet to determine how much of an investment the company can make.
Stay Positive & Which Leader Are You? Which Do You Want To Work Under?
They work well for organizing your kids playroom.
They work well for categorizing your work, too.
My favorite usage, though? Sorting your thoughts and emotions from the day.
Can you categorize them by who they are about? Can you categorize them into thoughts and emotions about the past, present, and future? How about sorting them into containers that are focused on your goals and a container for “everything else?”
It’s hard work to sort them not because sorting them into a container is hard; it’s hard work because of the actions we’ll have to take once we realize the containers our energy is going in.
Stay Positive & The Containers Are Our Choice
Giving with expectations is giving second.
Giving without expectations is giving first.
Giving with the hope of getting something back is giving second.
Giving with the hope they’ll get more out of it than you gave is giving first.
Giving where you both have more is giving first.
Giving where only you have more is giving second.
Giving because it says more about you than about them is giving second.
Giving because it says more about them than about you is giving first.
Stay Positive & That Gift You Wrapped? Is It First Or Second?
Restrictions can bring out the best work.
(Rather, what it actually does is eliminate the worst work.)
If you’re struggling to strike something remarkable, try adding a few more constraints around the project.
Do it until you’re just a bit frustrated.
That’s where the breakthroughs happen.
Stay Positive & There’s Always Constraints (It’s Our Job To Find The Right #)
There are two stages of making something better. The order of which doesn’t matter all that much.
What matters is that both are completed.
IMO, the project isn’t ready to ship until it has hit both stages.
They’re simple stages, too.
One stage is what you have done with the resources you own to make it better.
I can hand pick some better beers that go on tap at my bar, for example.
The other stage is what you have done with the help from others.
I can ask a brewer to come visit on the day we tap their beer so they can engage with our guests that are drinking their beer.
I’ve made it better and I’ve asked for help from someone else who can make it better.
That’s the one-two punch of betterment.
Stay Positive & Betterment —> Remarkability
