Why Try To Get Out Of Your Box, When You Can Use What's In It?
Charles Lorre left his breadcrumbs in vanity cards.
Others make throw-away Twitter accounts that no one ties to themselves.
Some create under a pseudonym.
Others journal about their journey and tuck the journals away in a closet to one day be found.
What’s special is that each breadcrumb is a personalized one. An unaltered, transparent, real bit of emotion and thought.
They are also remarkably freeing and IMO a necessity to enable growth.
Stay Positive & Leave Your Breadcrumbs
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Taking stock is more than just documenting that something exists.
It involves evaluating if it’s beneficial. If it’s out-of-date. If it’s worth keeping. If it’s worth showing off and highlighting.
With a new year ahead, we can fall into the trap of focusing on what to add, do and become.
While valuable, it’s more important than ever to take stock of the experiences, skills, mistakes, stories and lessons we already have.
If anything, to lose what no longer is helping us and make room for what’s to come.
Time to shed some weight and to find that shining armor we forgot we had in stock.
Stay Positive & Inventory Is In Your Control
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Everyone has a story of a major heartbreak.
They’ve got a story of a major work mistake.
They’ve got a story of a major win and major loss.
When something major happens the best action you can take is to own it as your story.
It’s making you who you are AND it’s going to better connect you to others down the road because inevitably you will share the story and hear theirs, too.
Stay Positive & Own Your Stories
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There’s a fork in the road. No matter which direction you choose, you’ll be wrong.
BUT. And this is a big but.
One path is a little more fun. A little more adventurous. A little more of a path that will change who you are.
The other path is simply the one you were on. No change.
Can you guess which path the artist takes? Or the remarkable marketer? Or the author?
There will be naysayers on both paths. And maybe. Just maybe either directions will be wrong.
Might as well choose the one that’s requires a slight leap.
Stay Positive & Onward
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Work that you’re unattached to.
Work that there is no reassurance around.
Work that’s made for someone else, not yourself.
Work you made from listening and responding.
Work that’s sent out on time, as promised.
Ship that kind of work and you’ll be set for life.
Stay Positive & Anything Less Is Mediocre
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Some of the best connections are the ones you reach out to make.
Songs that somehow resonate the most have sounds that are captured and inspired by what one hears and feels out in the world.
Some of the best books were inspired by conversations with another author.
Some of the biggest leaps the person you look up to has made were rooted in them reaching out.
Sure, there are some connections that might come to you. But not as many. And not as great of ones either.
Stay Positive & Reach Out
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It could be a good thing. Not being needed can mean that you’re doing work that matters and supporting others.
Not being needed means that you’re setting others up for success; that you’ve created momentum and having trained people so well that they could replace you.
Too often we want to feel needed. It’s a status and ego thing.
But there’s a better way to evaluate your value than you being needed, relied upon and vital to the work.
Would they miss you if you were gone?
You can not be needed and be missed if you were gone.
Stay Positive & That’s The Sweet Spot
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