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Stop worrying about Getting it Right for all and start worrying about Getting it Right for One. One size doesn’t fit all. One approach won’t make everyone happy. What worked for one, will not work for the other. But maybe that one that you are focussing, will turn into two and that two into four and that four into eight, etc, etc, etc. But you’ll never know unless you focus on that one first, because…
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…