Don’t you move my cheese.
Or my coffee cup; or my toothbrush.
I like constancy; predictability; certainty.
You probably do too.
It feels safe. Secure.
Comfortable.
Except… comfort is a lie.
Leaning into discomfort, creating something new, can be… uncomfortable. I can help. Email me: [email protected].
The Great Resignation is real.
People are quitting their jobs in droves.
They don’t want to go back to the way things were.
Because, frankly, things weren’t really working even before the pandemonium.
The long commutes.
The worries about childcare.
The hermetically sealed offices.
The cubicles.
The draconian styles of leadership.
At this moment in time, there is an opportunity.
To become an inventor.
To re-imagine work.
How you work.
Where you work.
When you work.
If you work.
Seize this moment.
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It’s big news.
Facebook has re-branded itself as Meta.
And… its focus is the Metaverse.
Which sounds interesting and exciting.
Except… it’s a lie.
Because…
One of my very favorite stories of all time is The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real by Margery Williams. The central character in that story is a stuffed rabbit, a small boy’s constant companion.
At night, in the nursery, the rabbit converses with the Skin Horse and shares his hope of one day becoming a real rabbit. The rabbit wonders about the process of becoming Real.
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”
“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.
“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real, you don’t mind being hurt.”
“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”
Time passes and the rabbit, dearly loved by the boy, becomes old and worn.
One day, the boy falls sick with scarlet fever. The boy’s doctor orders all of the germ-laden toys destroyed. The rabbit is consigned to the trash heap where it is to be burned. As it awaits its fate, the rabbit cries a tear of despair. Rescued by the Nursery Magic Fairy, the rabbit is carried to the forest where it is transformed into a real rabbit. The following spring, as the boy plays in the grass, he sees a rabbit at the edge of the forest – and is reminded of the toy he so treasured. The story ends, “But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real.”
The Journey to Real is filled with struggle and heartache, sadness, and darkness.
And Joy and Wonder. And Love.
Get Real.
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The journey to the Real that you imagine can be a lonely go. I can help. Email me: [email protected]
There’s no way to sugar coat this.
People who quit are quitters.
There’s no glory in quitting
Quitters aren’t heroes.
The hero is the one who stays in the game.
Theodore Roosevelt said it well. It’s the person who “stays in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself or himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fails while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
That’s a hero.
And that desire to stay in the arena, to strive and strive and strive again… that’s part of our humanity… that’s in our DNA. And without it, our world would be a very different place.
But… like everything, there’s an edge to it.
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It can be challenging to stay in the game…. especially when you’re creating something new, especially when you’re pushing into uncharted waters. And, for strivers, it can be a lonely go. (Not everyone “gets” us.) If you want help, email me: [email protected] or stop on by at my website: https://www.walthampton.com/
Conditions may vary.
They always vary.
They’re never right.
There’s really only one thing to do.
The time will never be right. Whatever you dream of or imagine doing, start. The only time is now.
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