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Embrace Friction
This was from the latest edition of The Optimized Report newsletter, a collection of actionable ideas to help small business teams improve their performance, profit, and potential without sacrificing what’s most important.
There are two types of people:
People who see a problem as a problem and love complaining about the problem. And people who see a problem as an opportunity and look for ways to improve it.
Which one do you want to be known for?
Now, on to this week’s optimized ideas: 👇
1/ Embrace Friction
“Resistance isn’t some mental toughness exercise; the best things in life come from friction.”
If it was, what would be the point? Without resistance, you don’t grow, and without growth, you swim in a sea of complacency. My best results have come from the land of difficulty.
As Steph Smith writes in her Tweet, “nothing worth having comes easy.”
Related: 3 Vital Lessons I’ve Learned By Embracing Friction To Achieve My Goals
2/ Supply Chain Woes
“China accounts for 80% of total raw materials for making medicine — and for antibiotics like cephalosporins, azithromycin and…
