The first rule of clearing out your closet is: If you haven’t worn it in the past year, throw it out. If it once looked great, but doesn’t fit anymore… If it’s torn, stretched, stained or faded… If someone gave it to you but you never liked it… If you got a great deal but it was never really you… Get it out of your closet. It’s taking up space! Use It or Lose It The same holds true for dreams. If 2013 has slipped by and you didn’t achieve what you dreamed to do, get rid of...
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What are you harvesting in your life? What do you feel you have to put out into the world? And when you finally reach the point of putting it out there, what do you do? The first step of these 12 was to tell the truth, to be honest with yourself: What are you passionate about? What must you have in your life to live? Each step you’ve taken in this process has brought you closer to this point now, where you’re able to sit back, look at the results of the creative...
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How do you get from good to great? Okay so you’ve created your product. You’ve got a first draft or a prototype or a template, or some first something going on. You’re excited about it. You want to put it out in the world. But you’re not sure if it’s quite ready. You have to decide once again what you’re committed to. It might be enough for you to bring your project to this point and let it go. You might recognize: “This is something good, but it’s...
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Do you ever wonder why when you create something you can’t seem to make it successful? Are you stopping short of completion? Are you expecting too much too soon? When it doesn’t fulfill your demands, do you give up in disappointment? A few years ago, I participated in an Innovation Conference in Sophia Antipolis. One of the key points of the conference was that most companies require new products to succeed immediately. They do not allow – financially or...
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What do you do when you achieve something? What does it take for you to stop and appreciate who you are in your world, on your street, in your chair and what you bring me into the world just by being you? When do you have the hardest time sitting still? I myself have plenty of difficulty here. It’s always easier for me to just keep moving, keep pushing, keep reaching for the next thing. Keep creating. But that’s a bit like reaching for more food when I’ve not eaten what’s...
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Where in your life do you not trust the process? Where do you feel something needs to be happening that’s not? Something’s wrong. Something’s missing. Where is the hardest part of your work to simply sit back and wait? There are times in every creative process when you look around at the field where you planted the seed and see only dirt. Nothing’s happening. And it looks like a failure. This post is #8 in a series of 12 which takes you through the 12 stages of the...
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