For The Most Of Us

Garth Beyer

For some, they’re able to quit their jobs to focus completely on their passion. For some, they inherit work that is paralleled with their passion. For some, their passion has been all they’ve ever known.

But for most, we have to earn our right. We have to conform a little to be able to be our true selves. We have to do a tad of the safe work, the work we may not want to do, the work that we get paid by the hour for, all in order to be able to do what we truly want.

The trouble is, people get stuck. Safe becomes comfortable. “The groove” becomes their future. They take what they are given and buy the idea that they aren’t special with it. They buy the idea that they can’t work on creating their art (doing their passion) simultaneously while working.

It’s a great excuse – the job – to not do the work that really matters. A job takes time, energy, focus, muscles, brainpower. It’s easy to say that you spent all your willpower for the day on your job and pushback your passion to tomorrow, or the weekend or after you finish this big project at work.

This is where being stuck meets being confused. Those who are stuck confuse their passion with something they have to do, much like their job. Whereas, by definition, your passion is something you get to do, get to feel, get to create – not something you have to.

Being able to separate work and your passion takes practice, but it can all begin with a constant reminder that work is what you have to do and your passion is what you get to do.

No day is fulfilled without having done both.

 

Stay Positive & Fulfill More Of Your Days

Garth E. Beyer

There Are Only Two Types Of Work

Garth Beyer

The work that matters and the work that makes you happy.

If what you’re doing doesn’t fall into one of these categories then it’s not work, it’s drudgery.

 

Stay Positive & Hope You Realize That You Can’t Do One Without The Other

Garth E. Beyer

The Gap Between You And An Artist

Garth Beyer

Have you ever noticed that some of your best work was done a day or maybe even hours before the deadline?

You waited (procrastinated?) until the deadline was right in front of you and thrashed to complete what you needed to.

While deadlines may suck (they are never far away enough), the thrashing that they provoke is paramount.

An artist in any industry is really no better than you or me. The gap between us isn’t skill, it’s not the number of followers they have and we don’t, it’s not even the connections they inherited and we have not. What creates the gap is that they thrash more often.

Thrashing is that rush of complete productivity we get before being forced to have something produced, finished, shipped.

Most acknowledge this with a term paper that’s due tomorrow afternoon or that personal statement you have to write by April 13th – that you start on April 11th.

The difference between you and an artist is that the artist makes thrashing a habit, it’s done daily, and most importantly, it’s done without a deadline.

What do you say we start closing that gap?

 

Stay Positive & You Can Start By Sharing Your Art On Here (comments section below)

Garth E. Beyer

Let’s Start Schooling Dreams

Garth Beyer

Even though I’ve worked on writing this for nearly a year, and worked on researching this for 16 years, this may not work.

Just over a year ago Seth Godin asked everyone, “What do you think we ought to do about education?”

Well, here is my answer: Start Schooling Dreams (click the link to download)

Start Schooling Dreams is my 35,000 word manifesto answering the question. It’s completely free and I will be working on creating different formats of it to suit your liking – I simply couldn’t wait any longer to give it to you.

I want to make one thing clear before you open up and start reading. The goal here is to start asking questions and you’ll hopefully realize this very quickly as you read. This also means that I want you to ask me questions. Let’s get a discussion going, let’s connect, let’s change what school is for.

Feel free to print this out, email it to friends, family, teachers, random school administrators.

After you start reading, I encourage you to come back to this page and leave a comment giving a shout out to “that one teacher.”

Lastly, thank you for giving this a shot, for facing the obvious, for making time to act. I truly appreciate all you’ve already done, all you’re doing, and all you’ll be wanting to do. What do you say? Let’s Start Schooling Dreams.

 

Stay Positive & Yea, Things Are Going To Change

Garth E. Beyer

The Misunderstanding Of What Trial Is

Garth Beyer

Trial is not talking to a friend about an idea.

Trial is not writing the idea down.

Trial is not giving it to someone else to do.

Trial is doing, taking action, shipping, and putting yourself at risk.

 

Stay Positive & Worry About Errors Later

Garth E. Beyer

What’s The Rush

Garth Beyer

I walked into a café yesterday and as soon as I reached the counter I was asked what I wanted. I had yet to look at what specials they had to offer. Of course, the majority who walk into a café know what they want (despite the minute they take to look over everything on the menu just to order the usual). So let’s just say the barista wasn’t rushing me to order. However, he was rushing to take my order. The quicker he gets it, the quicker (earlier) he can start to fulfill it. But then what? An order done gets you a customer. But businesses – if they want to be successful – should not be going after customers, they should be going after friends. Friends are certainly going to buy more, visit more often, and bring their friends with them. Spare the minute rushing to take an order and use it to connect, to make a friend.

 

Stay Positive & People Don’t Order It Often, But Here Is Food For Thought

Garth E. Beyer

A Few Golden Words This Past Week

Garth Beyer
  • “It’s time we accept reality.” “But we’ve come this far…”
  • Everything that is real, was at first, imagined.
  • More people should sue for feet falling asleep, so people will stop standing around – George Carlin

Stay Positive & What Have You Recently Heard That Stuck?

Garth E. Beyer