Do The Weird Thing

I had a manager who once got cookies for everyone, but then said, "One for each, please."

Why are you trying to limit me to one?

Well, it was a nice gesture, you might say, but why limit to one!?

Now you may say, "Be grateful," however, don't you know there were so many cookies that they put the box out again the next day with a sign that read, "One each, please." I rebelled; I grabbed two. Shhh—don't tell no one.

I'm joking.

Maybe.

Who knows.

Here's the thing: give and be unrelenting with your giving. Receive and be unashamed with receiving. But don't do either with trepidation or reservation.

We tell people to do the weird thing and people read it to be this crazy, over-the-top thing, but no! Sometimes the weird thing is letting someone love you and being loved. Weird because you aren't used to someone telling you how much they love you and how much you matter.

Sometimes the weird thing is saying no, when you know people have gotten used to you always saying yes and taking on way too much.

Do the weird thing—the thing you'd normally not do because of upbringing, or reservations built in your own mind, or because someone jaded said, "You shouldn't..."

Go. Do the weird thing. This is the time to go be weird.

As you read this, know that success is reserved for those who are okay being considered weird. In fact, some of the most successful people we know were once called weirdos.

I've often told my daughters, after they've called me weird, “Normal is overrated.” Normal is the status quo, the regular, and for some of you, normal is the way it's always been done and anything else is, well, weird. But I challenge you to be weird, because normal is overrated.