A case of the bad carrots
Oh, hi friends!
Here is a painfully simple and/or tortured metaphor, but it actually cleared up something in my brain, so:
I grabbed the plastic bag from my trash can and, as my final act, opened the refrigerator to see if there was anything I should throw out.
For the sixth week in a row, I looked at the bag of baby carrots in the crisper.
There were no longer a viable snack. Not moldy or anything, more withered and sad.
And yet, for the sixth week in a row, I let them sit there.
Until something snapped in my brain: Why?!
It’s not like one Tuesday I was going to wake up and go “Mmm, these carrots look GREAT.”
Maybe I was being lazy or optimistic or both.
But sometimes you have to throw out the bad carrots to make room for the fresh ones. You know? You know.
“If you wish you had more comments and likes on your social channels, comment and like on the social channels of people you admire. If you wish that more people came to your events, read your writing or listen to your songs, then go to events, read contemporary books, and listen to new music—and spread the word about them. Be the fan you wish you had.”
This is from Creative Calling, a new book by Chase Jarvis. (He’s also the founder of CreativeLive, which has thousands of free online creative classes.)
Plus, if you share work that you find valuable, people will associate that kind of work with you and will think of you when they see something you might like. I love when people (often people who don’t know me in person) email me a quote or book or podcast and say “This feels very ‘Brass Ring’ to me” — and they’re always right! Surround yourself with more of what you like.
Today’s fake-link is …
In other words, dot dot dot.
(Which is actually the name of a short play I wrote a few years ago, about two people having an interrupted conversation with a lot of iPhone...dot dot dot...text bubbles.)
But it’s also a necessary pause, a teetering on the edge. A dot dot dot can take you anywhere.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara