There's Always A Come Down

The chorus can’t last forever.

The tour can’t last forever.

The group can’t last forever.

The summer of love can’t last forever.

While you’re in it, enjoying it, it’s hard to tell that you’re inside of something you’ll later wish could have lasted forever. And of course once you’re looking at it in retrospect it becomes something different all together.

But maybe, if you keep your eyes open, you can spot it in real time. It won’t mean you’ll be able to make it last longer, but you will be able to experience more of the richness.

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I've Been Here Before

It helps when you can say ‘I’ve been here before’. Because you’ve been there you know your way around, you have better intuition of what comes next, you can show the new comers the lay of the land, you know where the puddles are and can keep your feet dry.

But the only way to build up your I’ve been here befores is to be willing to step into more ‘I haven’t been here befores’.

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Winter PSA

It’s winter. It’s cold. It gets dark early.

Don’t make huge decisions if you’ve been inside under a blanket for a month.

It’ll get warmer soon and you’ll be able to think clearer.

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Trying Your Hardest And Doing Your Best

It seems to reason that you do your best when you’re trying your hardest.

‘Go do your best’ has been around for a long time. And then when ‘best’ doesn’t happen, the follow up is ‘try harder’.

So more effort is put in as a means of ‘doing your best’.

But I venture to guess that when most of us have done our best…we’ve simply done our best. That we weren’t necessarily trying our hardest or straining like we’ve never strained before. We did our best when we showed up, did our work and the best happened as a result.

Maximum effort doesn’t necessarily yield maximum results. Especially in creative fields.

This is not to say you shouldn’t work hard or work till all hours of the night sometimes. But it is to say if you’re not getting the results you want, ‘trying harder’ might not be the ticket you need.

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Enforcer

Can you be your own enforcer?

The little things you know will make things better. Can you enforce them?

Saying hello, finishing something instead of Netflix, skipping fried food, leaving the house on time, reading the entire book, picking a release date and hitting it.

Sure, it’s fine if you don’t. No one is going to blame you.

But if you will enforce the changes and deadlines for yourself, when no one is watching, when no one is going to pat you on the back, and do it consistently…that is a skill that will change everything.

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What We Really Want To Hear

We don’t want to be told its good, or even great.

We think that is what we want but it’s not.

The only real satisfactory response when we show people what we made…

We want people to be in complete and utter awe, to fall off their chairs, to weep and hold us up as divine, their mortal bodies exhausted from such an enlightened creative presence.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Anything short of that is easily dismissible.

But just because it’s easy to dismiss anything short of that, doesn’t mean that you should.

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