It just hit me while on a call with my cousin Brian. I was telling him about the book Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend. The intention of the book is to help people with “when to say yes, how to say no to take control of your life.”

What about for the people who have control of their life?

What about for the people who know when to say yes?

What about for the people who know when to say no?

What if it read more like….

“when to say HELL yes, how to say HELL NO to get a little better at getting the life you want…”

Maybe it’s me but I notice authors marketing with the scarcity approach.

This idea that you don’t possess any of what they are teaching at all.

This idea that you are at rock bottom.

Maybe it should be called the rock bottom marketing approach. 😉

Going forward, I will pay more attention to this approach. I would rather start reading someone’s work with the energy that I am and I have than I don’t have….

After getting off a call with Jon Loomer I graded myself a check minus.

Our call was continuously disrupted by some household distractions.

After hanging up I felt defeated even though I woke up at 4:30 am, did an hours worth of work, 50-minute workout and connected with my cousin for our standing 30-minute weekly call. All of this before 8:00 am!!!

So back to feeling defeated. I couldn’t understand why it bothered me so, that I couldn’t think about the other accomplishments of the day until I asked myself “how can I turn this minus into a plus?”

Quickly I remembered that a cool opportunity, that I hadn’t shared with Jon, should be shared. I called Jon and told him and he gave me a pleasantly happy response.

So now I felt like I turned my frown upside down. The lesson I learned today that it’s never too late to turn your minus into a plus.

When is it a good time to use a band-aid?

Is it when you don’t want to see the pain anymore?

Is it when you want the healing to speed up?

Or is it when you want to hide seeing the progress?

When thinking about when to start doing something, get to the point you want to make…

If you want to avoid the pain then wait…

or if you want to SEE progress then put it into the world today..

Know your point and go after it….

…….FYI — I am not a band-aid guy…