Your biggest advantage is in your weirdness…your difference…and not in your similarities with others.
We’ve often discussed here that Customer Care > Competition Concern.
I assure you this is true.
When you’re always looking over your shoulder and concerned with the competition, more often than not, you become what you never wanted to be…more like them.
Here’s the best news of today. There’s something about you, that’s…well…you.
And that’s all you need.
My wife has created the coolest play area for our girls at our home. It screams think big, think differently, think in color, and let your music play.
On one of the walls in this room is a vintage alphabet with each letter individually framed on the wall. While spending time with one of my daughters in this room this weekend, I decided to learn the alphabet backwards.
I’ve attempted this before, but have not had any luck. Nevertheless, this time was different. I had the full picture of the alphabet in front of me.
After 10 minutes of stuttered chants and eyes locked on the wall I could do finally it without a pause or flaw.
We need the full picture don’t we?
Only then can we go from start to finish or from finish to start and never feel like a fish out of water.
When we arrive at what we saw we can always see further.
I have to think that even atop the mountains we climb, something pulls at us to go climb their neighbor.
Praise be that we don’t have finish lines.
We have journeys that birth journeys and the words etched on the gold found at the end of our rainbows read ‘see. there’s more.’
Denial?
Disbelief?
Doubt?
Distraction?
Walk through one of these and it’s quite hard to get back into the room where you cultivate your dreams.
Why have any plan that distracts from plan ‘A’? You don’t want that temptation and your dreams don’t deserve that either.
When we’re talking about your dreams, an exit strategy is an oxymoron. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Or should we ask, “what are you pointing at?”
Are you pointing us towards something to tolerate or something to celebrate?
Are you pointing us at the seen or the unseen?
Are you pointing us towards the noise or the music?
We must constantly ask ourselves what are we pointing at, because that in itself will be the point we leave behind.
Our fingers don’t point back at us for a reason.
Get the point?
Ashton.Gustafson 