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What does your best work look like?

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‘Eruption’ by Philip Dodson

I attended a great workshop a few years back, facilitated by Judy Rees, and one of the exercises was if you had to visually illustrate what your best work looked like, what would you create? What would you draw?

what would you draw, paint, make or write to demonstrate you at your best?

Do we even stop to look at what factors combine to create our best work, when we are in complete flow, when we are ‘on fire’?

The more we work in a focused, deeper way, the less the shallow distractions occur and the better we can work.

The challenge for us all is that is personal. What creates the environment for deep work for me will be different to you.

However, we all have an environment and mindset that will come together to enable us to do deep focused and meaningful work.

Take a moment to work out where that is for you and then see how you can apply it.

In their shoes

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If we all took a moment to step into the shoes of the recipient, how different the world could be.

What if we looked in the mirror and saw what the others might see?

This could be applied on any scale, however, if we could take a moment and just consider how we would feel to be on the receiving end.

Would we shame people? Would we use fear to control? Would we bomb each other? What could we do differently?

On a more day-to-day basis, would we send that email? Would we do the same marketing? How would we communicate or connect with our customers?

Before pressing the send button, think what impact will this have? Before saying something, before taking action, could we make more of difference by looking at the world from the other end of the lense?