A Word About Preparation

Prepare like you know what might happen but go into it knowing you don’t know what’s going to happen.

Doing the first part but forgetting the second leads to your arrogance and anxiousness being just around the corner you don’t see coming.

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Charging For The Chapel

Would Michelangelo have painted the Sistine Chapel if he hadn’t been commissioned by the church, being paid along the way?

Probably not.

It’s ok for you to charge (lots of) money for the thing you’re good at too.

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Antique Store Wandering

Great songs and great art don’t happen by wandering around in darkness and then finally lightning strikes. It’s not that dramatic.

It’s more like walking around an antique store during the day. Everything is fully lit with plenty of bad lighting. The rows are completely unorganized. It takes forever and everything’s been used. Just lots of things to look at and you having to make decisions about what’s worth buying and displaying.

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Maybe Not, But

Did it work out? Maybe not…but it didn’t kill you.

Is it going the way you hoped? Maybe not…but there are some really good parts.

Is this your only chance? Maybe not…in fact, probably not.

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The Serving Bowl

The chips are the same whether they’re grabbed from the bag or the serving bowl.

But the serving bowl makes them better when we’re in the mood for the serving bowl to make them better. Holidays, birthdays, special occasions, a family dinner…the special bowl makes for a special feeling.

And if something as simple as a bowl can do that, why not use the bowl?

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Limiting Focus

Our number of options grew at an exponential rate compared to the discipline of our focus.

For your profession, it used to be you did whatever your parents did. No need to discipline your focus because there wasn’t much else to focus on. The focus was singular (which is powerful) without ever having to keep it in check. The beauty and freedom of limited options.

Now the options we can focus on are limitless. We can deep dive into every whim and thought. We can hear about what everyone in the world is doing and decide to change what we’re doing. And then add to that everyone else’s whims and thoughts of the day, ready to be scrolled.

So we have to learn to discipline and limit our focus…because our effectiveness depends on it.

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