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Creativity is all about simplicity.

It’s about how easy or more efficient work can be made. It’s about creating more value for someone with less. It’s about putting in the emotional labor and mental gymnastics with an unwavering destination.

If the goal of the work changes or the target of it does; it’s no longer being creative.

It’s a new project.

The bummer is that new projects often feel easier to complete than working to be more creative.

Creativity is more of an attitude than anything else and it’s on us to push through toward simplicity.

Stay Positive & Use That Coffee For Good

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Two realities ring true.

No one ought to be ashamed or angry when something isn’t for them.

No one ought to be ashamed or angry when they realize that what they are offering isn’t for someone.

Gone are the days that we need to connect with everything and gone are the days that a business needs the masses.

It’s okay to let things go and let people go in order to focus on the core, the tribe, the mission.

Stay Positive & Lose The Crust

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At the end of the day, we have to manufacture our own meaning, our own purpose and existence.

At the end of the day, it’s on us to do the work that fulfills us, the emotional labor, the hard work.

At the end of the day, we need to work toward the change we seek to make and control only which we can control.

At the beginning of the day, too.

Stay Positive & All Day Every Day, Really

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The imagination can truly be stretched. It’s the same as you work any muscle. Push it to the boundaries today and you’ll be able to push it further tomorrow.

The sad part is that there are very few teachers out there who coach or encourage one to truly stretch the imagination.

For kids, it comes naturally. In school, you may have a professor or two that gets you to imagine where wind comes from or what life in Andromeda might look like. And recently, Andy from Headspace encourages folks to imagine sunlight spreading as far out in the world as we can imagine (have you tried to picture what it looks like beyond space?!)

While those are big ideas, it’s worth giving our brain the mental workout of thinking about the little things differently, too.

What are ways we can show empathy that we’ve never shown before?

What can we say to someone to make their entire week, not just day?

What does it look like when we combine loading a dishwasher with the lessons learned from studying architecture?

Stay Positive & Ssssstreeeeetttcchhhhhhh

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With my journalistic upbringing, I often categorize movements in three ways.

There’s those creating the change. Those writing about the change. Those working through the change.

When the change becomes a cycle and consistently hits all three groups; THAT’S when true change occurs.

Those who don’t fit into any of those categories typically don’t fare well. Inaction is still a choice and it doesn’t protect one from shifts in culture.

Go create. Go write. Go work through the change.

Stay Positive & Keep Going

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Prosperity in all aspects of life, really, only requires one thing.

To keep your head on while all those around you are losing theirs.

Stay Positive & It’s Hard, But Worth It

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When we feel defeated, it’s a lot like facing a huge risk or challenge. Our mind goes into flight or fight mode. (Which is really just either us shutting down or becoming enraged.)

There is another option, though. The one where we rise, re-focus and take things one at a time.

That path is always available.

Stay Positive & It’s A Choice (Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like One)

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