Minisode Monday #66 | Doing the Hard Thing Is Easy

The Art of Charm

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🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Minisode Monday, where we kick off the week with something quick and actionable -- to make you more magnetic and effective -- that you can implement right away. This time around, we discuss how going just a little out of your way to make someone else's day better has more mileage than any minor inconvenience you may experience in that fleeting moment. Let's get to it! The Cheat Sheet: It's easy to ignore small tasks that someone else usually takes care of. But what happens when we take a minor detour from our own routine to help lighten someone else's load? As we soon discover, doing the hard thing isn't usually that hard. As Jocko Willink might agree, this is a form of taking ownership (though perhaps not as extreme as some of his own examples). Doing small favors takes little effort, but results in big appreciation. Find an opportunity to go above and beyond this week -- whether it's cleaning up after a clumsy pet, washing the dishes, or sweeping the neighbor's walkway -- doing the hard thing is easy. To learn more about social dynamics and productivity hacks, take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text AOC to 38470. Also be sure to check out our Social Capital Intensive here! Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response or write to Jordan directly: jordan@theartofcharm.com (he actually reads everything)! Full show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/minisode-monday-66-doing-the-hard-thing-is-easy/ Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text AOC to 38470. We'll take you step by step to becoming better at making personal and professional connections, becoming a better networker, increasing your personal social capital and charisma. This is for both men and women! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Looking for a new podcast (in addition to The Art of Charm rather than as a replacement, we hope)? Check out Mike Dillard's Self Made Man here! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jordan Harbinger here from the Art of Charm welcome to mini-sod Monday
0:04.2	I'm here with my producer Jason to Philipo many said Mondays where we give you a little quick shot of personal development espresso and kick a week off right here
0:11.7	And we're happy to be here with you given you something quick and actionable
0:15.2	You can implement right away that'll hopefully make you more magnetic and effective now Jason this week
0:20.5	I was thinking about it. I call this do the hard thing and I don't always do this unfortunately because doing the hard thing is often
0:27.5	Also a hard thing, but what I mean by this is it's kind of like general and Dunwoody who we had earlier on the show never walk past a problem
0:36.2	And what I mean by that is well here's an example the other day I was going down the staircase from my studio in the house here and I saw like
0:45.9	a perfectly cat but whole shaped dot
0:49.7	One actually two dots one on the carpet and one on the wall and I thought like
0:56.7	Are you kidding me? You know obviously the cat had done a little bit of had a little bit of a mistake or like an accident or whatever
1:04.4	Oh, I know making your momo who knows right and so I went and I got a rag and a sponge and I it was dried on
1:12.8	Nicely so I cleaned up the thing before Jen woke up and she stepped down the the wet spot in the morning
1:18.3	She goes hey, what what was the wet spot? I was like you'll never believe it
1:22.0	There was a cat you know a little poop stains and she laughed and she's like oh thanks for cleaning that up and then
1:27.3	Later on that week or the next week. I can't remember now
1:30.0	There was a bunch of stuff stuck on the dishes and she had cooked us lunch and just ran out to do errands and
1:37.2	Whatever this the salmon or whatever what had like the skin just stuck so hard on the dishes
1:42.5	And so I started scrubbing those all off I scraped all that off I put that in the compost bin
1:47.7	You know and I scrub the plates clean and I threw them in the dishwasher because I figured you know this stuff is only gonna get worse when it's dry
1:54.2	You know bone dry and I ended up cleaning out the tea kettle and just other stuff that normally she does that you know
2:01.0	I don't even normally touch and then I saw that garbage was full so I took that stuff out now this sounds like
2:07.2	Table stakes for any of relationship
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