I love it when I tap into the creative jet stream and pick up on a common theme or meme about something I’ve been thinking about. The latest: risk taking. Even as the economy stalled, especially here in Las Vegas, the collective mindset was to bunker down and wait. Then around January, I decided it wasn’t worth hiding any longer and started whipping up new projects and ideas. Quite a few others did too.
Chris Brogan, always a goto guy for new ideas, wrote this morning that nobody gave him permission to start his new projects and he didn’t think to ask. It was just something he concluded he needed to do for himself. I loved this thought, “There are No Locks and No Gates,” meaning nobody is keeping you from the project and there are no obstacles in your way. Just start it and see what happens.
The Bad Pitch Blog went a little further with its post “Have Balls; Mortgage Will Follow.” A bit more euphemistic certainly, but the salient points bounce out at you immediately.
Laziness equals self-importance during a crap economy. If you think somehow things will magically change overnight –look Ma, Dow moved a notch—then you live in a fantasy land and the faster you wake up and stop paying attention to the Gosselins and DO SOMETHING the better it is for and your bank statement.
Out of the Top Five list offered by Richard Laermer, I especially like #5: Be Known as a Bit of a Trouble Maker (Key Words “Bit Of”). Trouble makers tend to take immediate risks and not worry about the consequences. They also tend to forget to back down, which is likely why Laermer adds the advice to be a bit of a troublemaker. Know your limits, but all the same, it’s time to get out there.
