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2022 Blog, 8 robinsons - March 22, 2022

DAY 073 – Your Imagination Is the Blueprint to Your Dreams

It is so easy to use our imagination as kids. It flows effortlessly almost 24hrs per day. As I got older, it became harder to tap into that side of me. Introduce a family, jobs, and bills and everything changes. As of lately I’ve seen more of my dreams become reality. I talk with my business partners (brothers) and we recall everything being done as parts of our earlier imaginations.

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2022 Blog, 8 robinsons - March 21, 2022

DAY 072 - Proximity Changes Your Perceptions

Sometimes, it takes experiencing things firsthand to fully understand them. Everything seems so distant these days with so many people spending the majority of their time confined to their homes. A pandemic made it easy for our perceptions of life and each other to run wild with our imaginations. I’m encouraging people to make eye contact.

DAY 071 - Be Confident

I’ve never been an overly confident person. It is admittedly not the best trait to have for someone navigating life’s journey as a creative leader. I have had to adapt over the years. I’ve watched people come behind me and negotiate better salaries, all because I was raised to accept what I was given with no complaints. Countering a job offer felt like “talking back” in many ways. Highly skilled people from poor and humble upbringings must know that they are valuable. They often must be told about their worth and coached to be confident. But the real world doesn’t work that way. Jobs and contracts quickly go to those that are often less skilled. The larger salaries go right along with them. I remember learning that I could have negotiated not only salary but vacation time as well. I’ve seen cash bonuses become part of negotiations when salary desires could not be met.

DAY 070 - What You Start You Should Finish

I try my best not to carry disappointment in myself for too long. The one thing that really gets under my skin, is when I start something and fail to finish. I love that I see this in my brothers as well. This past weekend we hosted a beautiful art exhibit curated by Angelo Robinson that found us spending a lot of long days and late nights. There was lots of driving around picking up art and the price of gas could not be a hinderance...

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2022 Blog, 8 robinsons, Mario Robinson - March 10, 2022

DAY 069 – Small Details

Many small details create the bigger picture. Most teams are comprised of those who are visionary thinkers working alongside those that really enjoy digging in the day-to-day operations. I learned that I was both, only when I get stressed, I become very detail and facts driven. We would all love to get to the end goal as quickly as possible. Those that know the process, understand that there is no successful end goal without 1000’s of small, detailed task that must take place.

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