I came in this morning brimming with Creative Flow – ideas for posts were bouncing through my head and how to fix some persistent work problems. I could have started by doing my other work, but the pull was too great and I started writing them all down, getting them all out as fast as you can. I’m lucky because I have a job where I can do that for an hour a day, others…
There are exceptions to any rule. The goal is to ensure that exceptions don’t become the norm. Because if they do, there is no point in having the rule. And if you don’t have the rule, then the norm is what you tried to stop. Unless of course the rule doesn’t apply anymore, in which case you don’t need to wait for the exceptions to occur. You can just tear it down in advance.
Just because I saw a cool post on how to make shelters out of logs and deep holes, doesn’t mean I want to do this full-time. It doesn’t mean I want to start eating ration packs, and filtering my own urine. It doesn’t mean I want to live by myself all the time. It just means, I saw a video of a guy building a shelter with his hands, thought it was neat, picked up…
What wakes you up in the morning? What makes you excited? What can pull you off of what you are currently doing? What makes you happy or brings a smile to your face? What enriches you? What pushes and challenges you? What calls you might be the end goal and the work in between is what is holding you back – but the end goal is worth it – all you need to do is…
Yeah, yeah, I know – there is always a team that wins. But when you lose… Did you get smarter? Did you get better? Did you get stronger? Did you learn what works and what doesn’t? Did you figure out what you would change for next time? Did you build a team? Did that team survive? You can lose and come out better for it.