Treat Work as Your Ultimate Form of Self-Expression

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#1. Treat Work as Your Ultimate Form of Self-Expression

Work is a great place to show up how you want to be.

It’s your chance to make your soul sing.

It can be your ultimate dojo for personal development and your arena for your best results.

If you want to be an artist, do more art on the job.

You’re an individual with a unique set of strengths, weaknesses, and experiences. 

Maybe only your closest friends know your true strengths.

Maybe you don’t show your strengths at work.

Why not? No matter what the task is, you can leave your mark.

When you live your values on the job and you give your best where you have your best to give, you are operating at a higher level.

Well, that’s my roundup of 50 of my best life hacks.  

I hope they serve you well.






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Be Your Own CEO

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#2. Be Your Own CEO

Apply business skills to life.

Business can teach us a lot.  

The most important thing they can teach us is how to be sustainable.  

You can use the same tools that create a strong, sustainable business, to create a strong, sustainable life.

If you know your vision, mission, and values, you have a strong foundation.  

Strategy skills teach us how to make the most of what we’ve got in terms of time and resources.   

We can innovate in our lives to do things better, faster, cheaper, much the same way we innovate in business.   

We can also reflect on and improve our performance in more objective ways, much the way a business does.






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Take the High Road

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#3. Take the High Road

Don’t get sucked into other people’s drama.  

Don’t get sucked into your own drama.  

Don’t spiral down into name calling, and blaming.

Step away from it.

Seek higher ground.

Don’t get pulled down, or stoop to their level.






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Live Without Regrets

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#4. Live Without Regrets

Go for it.

“It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. Find your passion and follow it.” — Randy Pausch

“Did I live, did I love, did I matter?” – Brendan Burchard

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You get this one moment to regret all the things you said you’d do but never did, and then it’s over.  

You die or you live.  

If you live, the look in your eyes is never the same.” — Gabrielle Bouliane




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Root Yourself in Your Mission, Not Your Position

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#5. Root Yourself in Your Mission, Not Your Position

 

Jobs change.

Missions are durable.

If you lose your job, you can find other ways to live your mission.

For example, if my mission was to help people live healthier lives, but if, for whatever reason, I couldn’t be a doctor, I would find other ways.




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#6. Find Your Arena for Your Best Results

For 45 minutes, a violinist played his heart out in a subway station.   

During that time, thousands of people walked by.   

No applause.  

No recognition.

Two days earlier, that same violinist, Joshua Bell, one of the world’s best musicians, sold out at a theater in Boston where the seats average $100.

In the one arena, nobody appreciated his performance.  

Nobody expected the world’s best musician to be performing right there in front of them in a subway station.

Change the arena, and suddenly Bell’s world-class performance is recognized and rewarded.

As my one mentor put it to me, “You can’t be a preacher in your home town.”

Sometimes you have to change your container.

You might be the world’s worst boxer, but the bar’s best bouncer.

Maybe you’re a lousy novelist, but the word’s best children’s author.

Maybe you’re a second-rate teacher, but one of the world’s best entrepreneurs.

The ugly duckling wasn’t so ugly when he found out he was actually a Swan.

Don’t be a fish out of water.

When you’re in your element, it’s night and day.




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Do the Opposite

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#7. Do the Opposite

 

Sometimes the best thing you can do is to “do the opposite” of what you’d normally do, to periodically surprise people and have them see you in a new way.

It’s easy in life to fall into routines that don’t serve us.

The fastest way to change our game is to rattle our own cage and shake things up.

If you’re always late, try being early.

If you’re always slow, try changing your pace.

If you’re always fast, then try slowing down.

If you’re the person that always says, “No” to things, try saying more “Yes.”

If you always find what’s wrong with things, try finding what’s right.

If you lack your confidence, try strutting more of your stuff.

Doing the opposite of what you normally do, might lead to your next best breakthrough.

Worst case, you’ll learn more about you, you’ll learn more about balance, and you’ll put more options under your belt for how you show up or how you respond in life.



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Build Better Habits

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#8. Build Better Habits

As the saying goes, “First, you make habits, and then your habits make you.”

Your routines and rituals can serve you well.   

Your daily little actions add up over time for the compound effect.
Do something once or twice and it’s a one off.  

Do it three times, and you might be on to something.  

Do it for 21 days in a row, and it just might stick.

Be careful in your little choices.   

The thoughts you think, the things you drink, the stuff you eat, and the little things you do.  

Habits can be insidious and act like a slippery slope.



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Break the Loop

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#9. Break the Loop

Our little loops can make us or break us.

Whether it’s an action or a thought, if it doesn’t serve you, break the loop.  Don’t dig the ruts deeper.

When the loop starts, catch yourself and choose whether you need to start, stop, or continue something.

It’s easier said than done, but awareness it the first step.



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Use Mentors as the Short-Cuts

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#10. Use Mentors as the Short-Cuts

 Mentors are the ultimate short-cut.

 Find mentors who have “been there, done that.”   

They can shave years off your journey and help you avoid dead ends.

The best mentors will know how to tailor their experience and insight in a way that helps you play to your strengths and accelerate your success.



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