This morning we launched our new 12 week course called Everyday Brilliance. At the heart of it, that’s what we all want, right? We want to be able to show up each day, spout off brilliant insights, create loads of value, and do it effortlessly and perpetually.
But it doesn’t work that way.
If we want to do brilliant work on a consistent basis we must establish practices in our life to keep us engaged and inspired. We can’t drift. We must be purposeful in the areas of time, energy, stimulus, focus and relationships. It’s tempting to believe that our best work will always be either a function of (1) sheer accidental insight or (2) sheer persistence. In reality, it’s neither. It’s most often a function of how we’ve invested our efforts to increase our capacity to do great work. Our greatest creative achievements will most often result from investments we made in ourselves days, months or even years ago.
Be aware of how you’re investing in yourself. Are you drifting, or are you being purposeful? Are you establishing practices around the kinds of stimulus you absorb and how you apply it to your work, or are you carelessly feeding your mind “junk food”? Are you setting aside time for important capacity-increasing activities? Don’t drift. Be engaged. And if you want to know what some of those capacity-increasing practices are, check out the course.
Todd –
sounds great! i’m having problems being able to purchase it using my existing user account though. when i’m logged in it’s still asking me to create a new account when i click on the “start now” link. i can’t seem to find a way to sign in with my current account info.
Ahh – if you have an existing AC Account you can log-in and purchase the course from your profile page. Login at:
http://www.accidentalcreative.com/amember/member.php
Love this reminder about investing in ourselves. I think we forget, that even we are “working for someone else” that we are still ALWAYS working for ourselves. Everything we do and in every way we must continue to invest in ourselves.
Agree Nancy. That mindset has made a huge difference for me as I am choosing how to go about my work and/or life as a whole. The key is to maintain something of a future mindset while still remaining able to enjoy here and now. (There’s an interesting book called The Time Paradox that covers some of this – pretty good read.)