Stop self-sabotaging and step up your game.
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Your ego is their competitive advantage.
Your complacency is their competitive advantage.
Your procrastination is their competitive advantage.
Your impatience is their competitive advantage.
Your laziness is their competitive advantage.
Your inflexibility is their competitive advantage.
Your jealousy and the decisions you allow it to make is their competitive advantage.
Your bitterness from clinging to a grudge is their competitive advantage.
Your glorification of busy is their competitive advantage.
Your “no new friends” rule is their competitive advantage.
Your red tape is their competitive advantage.
Your lack of process is their competitive advantage.
Your lack of wedding market research is their competitive advantage.
Your preference for short cuts over healthy organic growth is their competitive advantage.
Your inability to prioritize your time is their competitive advantage.
Your micromanaging is their competitive advantage.
Your refusal to do the boring, unglamorous, tedious work is their competitive advantage.
Your insistence on putting all your marketing eggs in the Instagram basket is their competitive advantage.
Your being ‘too good' to attend that event is their competitive advantage.
Your habit of indulging your FOMO (fear of missing out) rather than strategic JOMO (joy of missing out) is their competitive advantage.
Your refusal to ask for help is their competitive advantage.
Your staying within your comfort zone is their competitive advantage.
Your never raising your hand to ask questions is their competitive advantage.
Your nostalgia for the “good old days” of working in weddings in 1984/1994/2004/2014 is their competitive advantage.
Work smarter. Work harder. It’s not an either/or scenario, and hasn’t been for a long time.
Originally posted October 2018
Written by
LIENE STEVENS
Liene Stevens, the founder and CEO of Think Splendid, is an author, speaker, and award-winning business strategist. Armed with $2000, a healthy work ethic, and an undeserved dose of privilege, Liene bootstrapped Think Splendid from a scribble in a notebook to a successful wedding business consulting firm with a client list spanning 94 countries.
