Related to making, creating, and sparking discovery through creative endeavor.
I’m hard at work on a project.
Working hard on something I love makes me happy!
(Give me a few weeks and I’ll share details with you!)
For today’s post I wanted to share a great video for a song about happiness and an interesting graphic I found.
Tell me what surprises you the most about the info on the graphic.
by WebpageFX.
I’m mulling over some things.
I’m beginning to wonder if those of us with a large degree of ambition, or drive, or even longing have a distinct disadvantage…
Are the skills and traits helpful for achievement also a tripwire discharging unabated discontentment?
Achievement, of course, is not negative. Nor is the desire to achieve, in itself…but I wonder about the byproducts. I wonder about the trappings or downsides.
Is the “content person” someone who tends to be less ambitious and is therefore more satisfied at a core level?
Or, could the experience of a more lasting satisfaction also be reached through a pruning process of maturation and holding the two in a difficult, but possible, creative tension?
How do you see it? I’m throwing it out their and hoping for extra insight.
I’ve been thinking about perspective and mindset. The next post will followup with a look into a framework for mitigating or ameliorating the issue. I created a visual to serve as a guide for the next post. You won’t want to miss it.
It, like me, is a work-in-process, not a final solution.
What about you?
Want to weigh in?
• Given that discontentment isn’t necessarily negative: Are you more content or discontent, in general?
• Do you sense that it’s connected with your ability or desire to achieve? (Why or why not?)
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-Lisa
If you are using some of these words, you may want to rethink your profile bios on Facebook, Twitter, and the rest.
Avoid being hackneyed. Freshen. Liven it up.
Here are my FIVE Tips and a cool slide share I found on overused words.
May you really enjoy it!
1. Show the real you. (Are you fun, classy, funny, nerdy, crafty? Let it show in your bio.)
2. Be memorable. (Stand out in a good way. Be the highlight of someone’s day.)
3. Reverse-engineer what someone else is doing well and add your twist.
4. Limit the Obvious (It’s just dull.)
5. Remember your Target (Who are you hoping reads it? Speak to them, first.)
Critics are people who think they know better.
Haters are people trying to bring you down.
Listen to the critics, but only if they have earned your trust through genuine expertise or through a bond of friendship.
Haters, well, first of all don’t be one, and second of all don’t feed the monsters, if you find them. They’re incurable.
James Clear wrote a good piece on it here and I made a quote he over heard into a snazzy inspirational thingy.
At the Buffer Blog one of my favorite writers there Belle Beth Cooper posted an article called
She included a cool graphic (adapted from a creation by Hugh MacLeod, see below) that gave a keen picture of the difference between knowledge and experience. (Cooper inserted knowledge in place of MacLeod’s information and experience in place of knowledge, in her version.)
COOPER’S SUMMARY:
• Experience works like rods–connecting the dots that are the bits of knowledge we gain. Don’t you love it, too?
That means, people who are good at connecting (knowledge bits) dots are creative types.
It got me to thinking and using my creativity, thus defined as “connecting dots”.
It’s like my brain had a baby. Here’s what I created to go a step further than Hugh and Belle Beth:
Tell me if it makes sense.
I’ll call it THE PROWESS WHEEL
Skills are knobby tires for the wheel. Traction, baby!
You can embed the graphic by copying the code below, if you’d like. I’m happy to share.
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-Lisa