Acceptance

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Episode 51: Support From Your Competitors, Comparison, Acceptance And More (Podcast)

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast we talked about your competitors helping you out, one tip for practicing acceptance, how to avoid comparing yourself to others, bad timing and unfortunate events. Enjoy.

Episode 51: Support From Your Competitors, Comparison, Acceptance And more

Series of Unfortunate Events – What do you do when you find yourself victim to a series of unfortunate events (mistakes that seem to be made one after the other)?

Competitive Support – Is it possible to get honest business support from your competitors?

Acceptance – One tip on how to practice acceptance?

Comparison – How do you avoid comparing yourself to others?

Bonus – What do you do when your timing is off?

 

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Keeping Sane

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  • Not everyone needs to approve of your work.
  • The “good” in a good idea comes from having passion, not from the actual idea.
  • You’re told to ask good questions, “can you help me?” is the best one.
  • Always have something fun planned two weeks in advance.
  • You’re enough.

It’s easy to go insane when your work load gets heavy. It’s hard to implement the habits above. You know how I feel about easy vs. hard.

 

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A List Of 30 Lists

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Lists

A list of…

  1. What you are thankful for
  2. The moments in life you felt most alive
  3. This week’s goals
  4. Goals to be met within five years
  5. 99 ridiculous things you want to do before you die (no limit on possibility)
  6. What is stopping you from doing what you need to do
  7. What is stopping you from doing what you want to do (yes, they’re different)
  8. Every book you have read (not a list of every book you want to read!)
  9. Sources of inspiration
  10. Places you want to visit (test: can’t be on the first page of a Google search)
  11. Websites/podcasts that you must visit weekly, if not daily
  12. Your top 10 bad habits to break
  13. All the contacts you have made and something special about them
  14. Songs that get you moving
  15. Every source you have been quoted or mentioned
  16. What you want in a significant other
  17. Ideas that have been rejected, laughed at, or you didn’t deem as “good enough”
  18. Things to feel okay about (here is a start)
  19. What you don’t need to make a list for (things you do naturally, habitually)
  20. What you want your kids to know that you didn’t know growing up
  21. Mistakes you have made
  22. What you learned from those mistakes
  23. Things to admit now that you will later, anyway (here’s some ideas)
  24. Hurdles that have stopped you in the past
  25. What you love
  26. How you are different from other people, what makes you a niche
  27. What is happening right now without your effort that is building your brand
  28. People you want to meet in the next 10 years
  29. Your personal bests (running, blogging, audience count, viewers, subscribers)
  30. What is stopping you from making these lists when you know it will only help you

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Two Types Of Art

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The first is risk-free. It’s the type of art that you can destroy without second guessing yourself; the type of art you can return, get your money back, or just give away to someone else because you’re not attached. This type of art is noncommittal.

But it’s still art. In fact, it’s invaluable art.

This type of indefinite art is about expression as much as it is exploration. We can peck at it, flip it, and stick the end of our tongue to it to see what it tastes like. This art is about discovering through creating what we don’t understand. This art is to be played with.

The transition toward the second type of art is made through what all art shares: facing unresolved issues – the meaning of life, why this and not that, where do I belong.

Popular art – the second type of art – is when a creation contains answers.* The second type is about sharing findings, sharing answers, sharing your conclusions – egotistic or not. This is the most difficult type of art. To creat the first type, all you need to do is turn rumination into something tangible. For the second type of art, you have to commit, you have to accept all the criticism you will receive before you receive it. What ruins art creators is when they underestimate the amount of resistance they will have to face, internally and externally. The second type of art is simply art shared.

*[Right or wrong, they are answers. Popular art becomes such through connection, acceptance, and reality. It may not be the right answer for you, and it may be the wrong answer for her, but, essentially, it’s an answer for someone.]

 

Stay Positive & Create A Little Art. One Type Or Another

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You Deserve The World

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But, it’s not about what you deserve. Remember the saying that Perks of Being a Wallflower so joyously reminds us of? “We accept the love that we think we deserve.”

But, in reality, it’s not just love – it’s money, it’s friends, it’s the education, it’s the surprises and it’s the weird life turns. That’s why I do my best not to think about what I deserve. Rather, life is better lived leaving it at wanting what you want and accepting what you get.

Forget what you deserve, what you think you deserve, or what anyone else thinks you deserve. If we would first stop limiting ourselves and refusing what other people or life offers us, then we could finally start being constantly amazed with life.

 

Stay Positive & Who Doesn’t Love Being Amazed

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Acceptance

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Acceptance isn’t being okay with what you get after you open a door.

It’s being okay with whatever is behind the door you’re going to open.

Or whether there is a door to open at all?

But if you accept there is always a door to open. There always is.

 

Stay Positive & Maybe Accept That Whatever Is Behind The Door Is Going To Make You Happier. It always is.

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