You don’t get to pick when your work is wanted or your skills are in demand. If you (or we) could do that, there would never be unemployment, and for the most part, everyone would be an entrepreneur. You CAN see where currents are heading. You CAN see what is shaping an industry. You CAN extrapolate what is needed today and from that what will be needed tomorrow. The goal then becomes to get ready…
An Instagram post or a bullet list of what someone does for their routine takes about 5 seconds to digest. It probably took 3 – 5 minutes to write it out and throw some uplifting/inspiring music up against it. But to build the routine, to fine-tune it, to make it perfect, to get it to the point where it was no longer a list to be followed but a thing that was ingrained in everything…
The Trick – takes seconds to show, but hours, days, weeks, maybe even months to master. The Treat – is a quick ask – can I have something for nothing? The trick can get you a bigger treat than if you just asked because people will always recognize the work that went into it. Or sometimes you’ll get just the treat. You can ask for something and hope you get your worth, or show your…
Rain will fall on your parade. On the days you had so much planned to do, you anticipated the desire to have no rain fall. Rain will fall. That rain can be people being absent, leaving their jobs, resources drying up, pivots and turns you didn’t plan. The rain will fall, and some days it will be harder than others. You can always plan for it, but will you scream against it, cross your arms,…
You can stare at your screen and hope that inspiration comes at you – strikes you like a lightning bolt, fills you with the energy to move forward, and implement at never-ending speed. And you can wait for that idea that no one has (that you can’t prove that no one has). Or you can start working on what you have in your head now and see where it takes you. It might not become…