Your opportunities will be capitalized by how well you recollect where you’ve been and what you’ve previously seen.
Business is a daily pop quiz and the good news is you can use your notes.
Create a product. Shift. Create art.
Compete. Shift. Dominate.
Manage. Shift. Lead.
Read the news. Shift. Be the news.
Wish. Shift. Will.
Sell. Shift. Serve.
Make noise. Shift. Make music.
The fortune, fun, and fulfillment is found in the shift.
We spend 22 years, give or take, trying to fit in and being told to operate as the group operates.
But now getting noticed and growing your brand depends on you being unlike the group and/or crowd.
When we just see the crowd, and can’t find you in it, we tag and label you like everyone else in the crowd. Not good.
Where are ya Waldo?
If you’re bored it is probably due to a lack of opportunity to be creative or an overdose of routine in your life.
But I think to see today as a lack of opportunity and as routine is a choice.
Today can be new. Today can be different from yesterday…much different. But you have to choose “different.”
Today when you hold your pen, cell phone, mouse, notepad, and iPad think of them as paintbrushes and microphones.
See that? You just moved from worker/employee to artist/musician. Huge shift. Now there’s an abundance of opportunity and routine is gone.
If you see your job/role/career as a way to express yourself you can probably find some passion – which is typically the missing link on your road to fulfillment.
Economy of the soul lesson: As passion decreases, boredom increases.
Cheers.
Steve Jobs once said, “it’s easy to connect the dots looking backwards.”
In other words, on this side of success it’s easy to see the thousands of small things that got you to success.
But we don’t celebrate the small do we?
We should more often.
Today, may we celebrate taking a chance that no one saw.
Today, may we celebrate just one day without __________ (what’s holding you back).
Today, may we celebrate 10 pages of a book read.
Today, may we celebrate a walk around the block.
Today, may we celebrate one page written for your book.
All of these small dots, blips, and little/unnoticeable actions will get us where we long to go.
Fall in love with the dots. Rest assured, they will love you back. It just may take 10 years, a career, or a lifetime to notice.
Ashton.Gustafson 