Working on.
What are you working on today?
Working towards.
What are you working towards today?
Two different answers…make sure they’re always in sync.
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How can we make this a little bit better?
That’s often a better question to kick things off with. Especially if you’re voicing the question to a group.
‘How do we make this a million times better’ is often too intimidating, too out of reach or quickly goes down the road of wishful thinking.
But a little bit better? Yeah, we all know how to make it a little bit better.
And isn’t it the little things that make the biggest difference?
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This is the time of year for secret recipes.
The extra special, season defining recipes.
Where the whole point is to simply enjoy the secret…no need to question the secret, no need to not know the secret yourself, but to simply sit back, smile and indulge.
The two that come to mind that go back to my childhood are the cookies my mom makes with the raspberry jelly and the wild rice soup that my dad has made for countless Christmas get togethers.
It’s a joy to accept a secret recipe and joy to give one.
So whether in eating or in business…I hope you’re on both the giving and receiving ends of the secret recipe.
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You and one other person.
What does this look like?
Writing a song and fully producing it for one other person and only letting them hear it.
Hand making a Christmas card and handwriting the message for one particular friend.
Making (or at least attempting :) a delicious, luxurious dinner for your spouse.
Clipping together a video of you visiting the attractions in your town for your grandma who won’t ever be able to make the trip.
It’s not creativity for the masses.
It’s not creativity for you alone.
It’s special, specific, non-scalable, non-efficient creativity on behalf of one other person.
Try it. It will better inform and breathe life into the journey.
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Although it’s been said many times many ways…
The problems you are facing (or that are getting you down) right now exist only as a result of solving the problems that came before them.
What a gift it is to be facing new problems.
New problems mean you’re moving.
So the thought of “we don’t have the answer and what do we do now” is in fact a guide post (although often disguised as anxiety, stress, depression, insecurity).
You’ve reached the set of problems you currently have…Congratulations!
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The audience is looking to you to assert your will over them. For your will to be professional and uniquely sculpted and entertaining and inspiring.
If this is you, then asserting your will is a good thing. Not a selfish thing, but an act of service. A welcome thing. Although still a scary responsibility to take on night after night.
We want to know that you know what you’re doing but we don’t need to know what you’re doing. That’s the exciting part.
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