I love debugging. Press F5 and walk step by step through everything you have just created. It’s awesome. Could you imagine debugging your life – pressing F5 and figuring out what is wrong with you? “Oh looks like you had a huge lunch and are now tired.” “Trying to do too much and need to slow down or drop something” “You’re stuck in an infinite loop because you can’t solve that problem” And on and…
Find the music you need to get that mountain of work done. Play it on repeat for 4 – 5 hours. Lock into it with your headphones. Play it over and over again. Get it done.
What would you do if you stopped doing everything you’re doing now for One week. If you took One week, to fix up your business, your team, and your personal progress. One week to not be tied to a sprint or delivery but to do the things that would push you forward. At my first company, we needed this for a week, we took an old app and spent the week repurposing it into a…
What happens if you paused the current sprint? The current sprint that was in trouble. That was broken. That wasn’t working. That was churning and churning with nothing to show. The sprint that was filled with bugs because requirements were missed? You know the sprint. You’ve lived that sprint. Now what if you hit pause and figured out what you want to do next, turfed what wasn’t working, kept what was, fixed the team issues…
We all have creative inside of us. We all do not know what it is. That’s the goal, find your creative, find what makes your work yours and no one else’s, and put it into everything you are doing. Your Creative Flow is what will differentiate you from everyone else, but you have to invest the time to find it and have the patience and commitment to put it into the work that you do.