To your body
To your family and friends
To co-workers
To strangers
To nature
To new stories
To old stories
Don’t talk. Listen. Ask a question, then listen for the whole answer without interjecting. Hone this skill and just like having patience or gratitude you will be rewarded.
Make it the best day!
-K
We all start with a foundation. A base on which to build and become who we are. We also have foundations in our learning and in our health. These foundations help us get further in our career and improve our health and strength.
We must revisit our foundations to make sure they are stable. This can be with continuing education courses, reading the newest research, challenging our pre-existing ideas and evaluating to see if there should be a new route taken.
Our foundation started some time ago. However, it should always be revisited to see if it can be improved upon.
Life is about adaptation and challenging yourself to grow.
Make it the best day!
-K
Has there been motivation lacking in your daily routine? Has your inner fire subsided?
Re-ignite that fire. Find your passion again. What is something you do every week that makes you excited? What makes you jump up and down and get giddy?
Sit down and think about this. What puts the smile on your face?
Find that and create around it. Re-ignite your fire in the area that you desire. Even if it only starts once per week, build on that. Make your life exciting again. Create the life you want to live and live it everyday to the fullest.
Make it the best day!
-K
Are you traveling or have a late night at work and you need food. But, you want to eat healthy for under $10, impossible?! I say no!
Chipotle is a great choice and option for eating healthy and cheap with almost unlimited customized options. The below meal cost a total of $7.09!
Burrito Bowl
1/2 brown rice and 1/2 white rice
1/2 kidney bears and 1/2 black beans
Add fajita vegetables
Protein of your choosing ( I got chicken, so it was a little cheaper)
One scoop medium salsa
One scoop hot salsa
Corn mix
Add lettuce
Tortilla on the side
Enjoy!
Affordable, tasty and healthy.
Make it the best day!
-K
Be informed. Read articles from reputable sources. Check those sources.
Knowledge will help you be prepared for future discussions and will help you plan your next move.
We can progress with new knowledge. Yelling and fighting will not progress anyones cause. No one likes to be told they are wrong.
Approach situations with a willingness to discuss. Be prepared to talk, not argue.
Learning new information will always benefit you, search it out.
Make it the best day!
-K
Anything is possible if you ask. Have a question? Ask. Want to see if you can get the same promotional deal you had at the start of a service? Call and ask.
Never hurts to ask, and you usually come out on top!
Make it the best day!
-K
When we look at any chart or our lives we see ups and downs. Very rarely, if ever, are people or businesses on a straight trajectory up. Constant gains, always acquiring clients, never experiencing downtowns or hitting your numbers every month is hard to sustain over a two to five-year time frame.
How we deal with the lows, determines how quickly we get back to our even or back to our upward movement. Some lows are harder to come out than others. No matter how long the lull may be, it is important to start back up with a plan.
A plan that can start small and increase over the coming months. Make sure your short-term and intermediate goals are achievable, knowing that you would prefer a longer term, upward moving positive trend. That will be more beneficial over the sharp upturns, which ultimately lead to the same speed of down turns.
There are always highs and always low. Celebrate them all, but always have a plan when the lows come. It will make the journey back to positive that much more enjoyable.
Make it the best day!
-K
If you’re reading this, you woke up…YES!!
Now it’s time to get to work. The sun is up and we have a checklist of things to accomplish, personally and professionally.
This may not be the ideal situation you wanted to be in at the beginning of the week, or the beginning of the month. However, here we are.
Let’s lock it down and be the change we want to see in the world. Follow you passion. Make your voice heard in the most productive way possible. Encourage a movement to make progress. As a citizen of this great country we can make a difference. Social media makes it easier to mobilize and make headway in your cause.
Take our individual fires and create greatness for today, tomorrow and permanently moving forward.
Make it the best day!
-K
No matter what happens, we need to live with love and gratitude. The only way we can see change in the world is to treat everyone better.
If we are divided, then we can not move forward.
Treat everyone with respect, love and gratitude. That will go farther than hate, name calling and grandiose verbiage ever will.
Live with love.
Make it the best day!
-K
A band that I enjoy listening to recently decided to put out another album. However, they did not want to go through the record labels and all the shenanigans that come along with that. They decided to do a crowd funding campaign to pay for their studio time and it’s really neat.
This is the second band I follow to do this. They started this movement yesterday and they are already at 75% of their goal. That is the power of fans and a unique marketing angle.
What makes crowd funding an interesting concept?
It’s not the fact that people donate money and get a cd. Anyone can do that, it is about the cool features that you get if you help fund the artist.
A quick example, is you can get a signed guitar from the band or you can get up on stage and play a song with them. If you are so inclined you can buy a package and they will name a song after you!
Those packages just scratch the service, but it hits at a larger point.
They create unique experiences and price them as such. Create a limited supply and post them on their crowd funding website.
Unique experience – check
Limited supply – check
Reward fans for loyalty – check
Maintain artistic freedom when creating a new record – check
Thinking outside the box to drive loyal customers to your product – check
They didn’t take the usual, trampled, crowded and beaten road to “success.” Maybe we shouldn’t either.
Make it the best day!
-K