Show Up, No Matter What

I’ve mentioned experience before and I’m sure I’ll mention many more times in the future.

Experience is good. I almost get offended when someone doesn’t want to experience something. Especially when I think it’s great. Surely if it gives me this much joy you will enjoy it also.

“Hey, have a bite of this salmon”… “No thanks, I don’t eat fish”.

“Hey, you should try Skydiving” … “No thanks, I’m scared of heights”.

“Hey, listen to this audiobook”…”No thanks, I don’t like books”.

“Well, have you ever tried any of them?” “Nah, they don’t interest me”.

People are different. Fair enough. Makes sense.

Fun factors aside, these people are missing out on huge amounts of experience. How else are you ever going to truly understand what these things are about? Experience is an essential tool to live. Living is experiencing.

A good friend of Experience is Determination. When the two get together you are almost unstoppable.

As a young man, serving a licence suspension, I remember riding a bicycle to the train station, going to the city and hopping back on the bike again to ride kilometres in 35 degree heat, with a heavy backpack full of sample designs, laptops and ideas to get to a meeting. I would arrive sweaty, haggard and looking somewhat unprofessional but hey, I got there, respected the client’s time and delivered as always.