Same Shoes Different Color

If the shoes are brown and purple, I’ll pass. If they’re white and light green, I’m in.

If the car is navy blue, I’m out. If it’s black, I’ll take it.

If the guitar is bright red, it’s probably a no. If it’s a deep red, I’ll buy two.

It’s the same pair of shoes, car and guitar. Same quality, utility, and feel…just different colors. But it turns out color matters. What it’s wrapped in. How it’s packaged. If it’s done one way, we definitely don’t want it…if it’s done a different way we’ll do anything to get it.

The packaging might not be most important but it’s always important.

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Make The Call

We haven’t gotten better at making choices by having more options.

We get better at making better choices by simply making decisions. Not willy nilly. But not dramatizing and dwelling on the what-ifs. You have to do the best with the information you have, make a call and keep going.

I would argue we learn more from a wrong decision than forever contemplating the options.

»» This post brought to you by the three days it took me to order some gym shorts.

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The Sweat Box

Most have us have made the lists and checked the boxes for a long time. The hard boxes. The sweat boxes. The up all night boxes.

And then maybe a little money starts coming in. The more money that comes in the more you can pay someone else to do the sweaty stuff for you. And you should. But not completely.

Do something everyday that you don’t really want to do. The discomfort is good for the soul.

Check the sweat box.

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Where Are We Going?

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We want to know that when we hit play on a new song, that the artist knows where we are going. Or rather…that we can rely on the artist to take us somewhere we’d like to be.

Most every song has an arc. We hear those first few notes…and the first few notes are never the biggest best notes of the song…but…do we hear something in the very beginning that makes us think this artist knows how to take us there. The payoff, the twist, the climax, the hook.

»» And one of the reasons we return to the artists we already like is that we trust where they will take us when we click play.

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The Comeback

It’s one of the best things in basketball or in any sport. The team gets down early and then fights and claws and comes out on top.

It resonates with all of us because we know if we were ever declared victorious, we have all the scratching and clawing to show for it. We live in the scratching and clawing. A comeback win is perhaps the only type of win available to us.

The part of the metaphor that doesn’t really hold up for most of us is that no one is against us. So don’t get distracted by looking for someone to blame. Just keep scratching and clawing

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The Bar And The Bounce Back

When a good team is playing bad, they look like a bad team but they aren’t.

So where does the identity of a team come from?

Here’s a couple ideas…

The bar and the bounce back.

How good can you get your worst day to be? And when you get that low, how long does it take to bounce back?

The higher the bar and quicker the bounce back is a big part of defining a team.

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