New Year is just around the corner, followed by a bit of a break for everyone as we take time to recharge for the oncoming New Year which who knows what is in store for us then. It’s generally around this time I start thinking about what I accomplished and what I want to start fresh on in the following year. No matter how much baggage, how many mistakes you have made, where you are…
Perhaps it’s time to try something different, something off the beaten path when nothing else has been working? What else do you have to lose when you’re stuck with nowhere to go?
On a new project, things go wrong, all the time, because they are new. That’s what makes them so much fun, it’s like learning a new skill, you’re going to get stopped, you’re going to fall, you’re going to make mistakes. But the only way to get better and keep improving is to keep pushing ahead. If you stop pushing, stop learning, stop growing, you’ll become stagnant and the first question we all ask ourselves…
There is a force that pushes you to create your best work. Whether it be a habit, a process, a warm-up, a song, a mantra, whatever – it is the force that pushes you, when you are down or need a kick to create your best work possible. It’s not about being in the zone, it’s about getting started. Find that force and harness it, protect it and reproduce it. Because while you are doing…
I didn’t think this would be a message that I would be receiving this week but there it was with the follow-up question – “Is there anything there that you need?” All I could remember was my unopened box of ramen noodles. A place I haven’t been at in over two years is being reconstructed for whenever I might return. I wonder if they’ll save my noodles.