If bad weather is on the horizon, we plan our day in an attempt to mitigate its effects. We hear the doom and gloom that keeps building to a crescendo until. It never comes. It wasn’t as bad as we thought. Sure it might have happened a little. But not to the extent that we thought it would. Such as everything you are doing, where sometimes what you forecast is worse than what really happened.
It’s still there, you simply turned off the tap. You let the workload get you down. You let everyone’s else’s demands supercede your own. You tried to make it happen, it didn’t and you became frustrated so you stopped. If you want to get the creativity back, stop thinking of it as some magical genie in a bottle and start seeing it as the labour of work and love that you need to put in…
It’s not easy to do when around you everyone wants something. They want what everyone else is doing and achieving. They want the overnight success that others are achieving. They want to reach their goals faster and sooner than the last guy. But they aren’t ready for it because they haven’t quantified the need. They haven’t figured out what they need to do before they can start wanting something. These are the hardest conversations with…
So after writing Measure Your Mark for 2017, I thought I should try and create some own metrics that I wanted to measure my year against. This isn’t about followers, likes, comments, subscriptions but rather everything I want to do. I wrote them all down, stick around and we’ll see how I do at the end of 2018 and maybe even hear how you did. Here are the guidelines/suggestions; Do more than what you are…
I’d like there to be a National Whining Day. Where for the entire day – there is no school, no work, no projects, no deliverables, no nothing. Everyone steps outside their door, family, dog and all and lets it out – says everything they need to say about everything that is bothering them at the top of their lungs. No snippy comments or sarcastic remarks just full on screaming at the top of our lungs…