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Episode 10: Verbal Commitment, Purpose, Moving On And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we talked about the mental battle of doing something new, how important verbal commitment is, why people settle, the purpose of life, holding on to your pass vs moving on, and more on self-worth. Enjoy

Episode 10: Verbal Commitment, Purpose, Moving On And More

New/Change – what is the biggest impediment to someone doing something new or changing?

Verbal commitment – How permanent or official should a verbal commitment be?

Settling – In one sentence, why do people settle?

Purpose – What is the purpose of life?

Moving on – What’s your take on moving on versus holding your past with you?

Self-worth – How can someone increase their self-worth or solidify it?

 

Stay Positive & Your Worth It

If Given The Option

Garth Beyer

It’s better to be up than down. Optimistic attitudes, smiles, and focusing on what works is contagious.

It’s better to be on than off. Quit plainly, if you’re on, you’re functioning. Off days are the worst.

I bet you will agree with these two, but push back on this… It’s better to be out than in.

In feels safe. It’s your comfort zone. In means you’re analyzing, you’re consuming information, you’re gathering opinions, preparing for the out, the risky, the accountable actions.

In feels good.

Yet, you wouldn’t let yourself stay down, right? Nor off, correct? So, why in?

In a world of infinite knowledge, infinite emails, infinite blogs posts to consume, we feel the need to digest more before we can regurgitate something creative and original.

I’m all for yin and yang. An off day here and there makes the on days way better, but too many off days in a row… nothing good comes from it. Nor does anything good come from always taking things in.

Today, show out some love. Do something risky. Write something new.

 

Stay Positive & Get Out There

It’s A Science, Well, Sorta

Garth Beyer

Building your business and brand is a lot like baking brownies or brewing beer. You can get all science-y. You can have everything perfectly measured, perfectly timed, and at the perfect temperature. It takes a ton of work, attention, and, arguably, stress. But it can be done.

The catch is by following the rules so closely, you don’t produce anything new.

Sure you can brew an incredible beer and build an incredible business, but nothing is as remarkable as something that is both incredible and new.

When you know where you’re going to arrive, it’s best to try new ways of getting there.

Certainly learn from science, but don’t stick to it.

 

Stay Positive & Skip Science, Try Art

Cut The Thread Or Make It Work

Cut The Thread Or Make It Work

Garth Beyer

Make It Work

There are those who need to be fired. Certainly those, be they individuals or groups, who you need to cut the thread to.

The majority of time, I would argue, you can gain much more from making it work.

What no one may have told you about “making it work” is you do not need to make it work in the way you had originally imagined it working.

Making it work, by definition, involves moving variables, involves changing expectations, dates, deadlines, numbers, email responses. It involves facing a new direction from where you stand when you decide to make it work rather than to cut the thread.

Often times “making it work” means turning the efforts into a one-man show.

Often times “making it work” means trying something different, something never done before.

Often times “making it work” means taking the risk you should have taken at the start.

 

Stay Positive & The Show Must Always Go On

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Good Out Of The Gate

Good Out Of The Gate

Garth Beyer

Good Out Of The Gate

Not many are.

Typically, the only person who expects you to be good out of the gate is you.

I might be wrong with that statement. Some may expect good out of the gate from you, but they’ll never check.

They won’t read your first book and if they open it, they won’t read all of it. They won’t follow your blog and check in every day for the first three months you blog daily. They won’t watch your YouTube bit detailing your new invention. 50 Instagram photos down the line, they’ll never scroll down to see what your first 5 were.

Don’t focus on being good out of the gate, focus on feeling good.

You’ve started something. You’ve finished and shipped something. You’ve practiced. You’re troll-free because no one is paying attention yet. Enjoy it. Relish it. Leverage the opportunity.

 

Stay Positive & No One Is Watching, Why Not Experiment?

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Where The Friendly People Are

Garth Beyer

I love the city, don’t get me wrong as you read. Downtown Madison, New York, Boston, Chicago, they are perfect. But I also love the country. Actually, some might not even consider it the country, it’s more the edges of town. That’s where I really love to be.

You don’t need to go too far from the heart of something to find people happy to see you venturing out on your own.

It’s the same story if you were on a motorcycle traveling from downtown Madison to the edges of it as it is if you were traveling from the safety of your current workspace to the just-a-bit-uncomfortable edges of it.

It’s ironic, really. We’re fed the idea we need to be in the heart of something to get the most out of it. Yet, no one waves to you as you pass by; no one pays you any attention; no one takes a moment to chat about your day or offer you something strictly out of selflessness and gratitude. It’s the people already at the edges that are there for you. The edges of your work, the edges of innovation, attitude, education.

They’re waiting for you.

 

Stay Positive & Don’t Make Them Wait Any Longer (this is what happens)

Being Accepted

Garth Beyer

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In a pitch for an executive board position, one candidate said, “You can tell by my personality.”

I don’t advise you say that… ever. Saying that (or something similar to that) let’s everyone know that you will change, that if you get rejected, you’ll alter your personality until you make the most people you can happy.

Worst of all, no, I can’t tell by your personality.

Personality is who you are, not who you can be or how you say you are.

If you’re new, if you want to show that you fit in or stand out, focus on sharing what you have done, what you have created, what you failed over and over at. THAT tells me more about your personality than what you can say your personality type is.

And if you have nothing to show, either say that or go back to the drawing board and build something to showcase.

 

Stay Positive & Go In Swinging, Not Just Saying You’re The Batting Type

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