swishism

We all do it. It doesn’t matter whether what we’re doing is particularly messy work, if we’re wearing something with sleeves, we roll or shrug them up. Maybe it’s a sign to ourselves and to others that we intend to do work. Maybe just a habit. Either way I think it’s important to shrug sleeves for our own sakes. We live in times where it’s easy to paper-shuffle, clock watch, and well… sleeeve shrug because someone is watching/or because it’s expected.

I think something different happens when we consciously shrug them, we acknowledge that this could get messy or sweaty or paint splashed… that mistakes are likely.

For me, not being able to start the day, or a task with this kind of approach is  a serious loss. At least that’s my take. [Shrugs]

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swishism entry attitude, creativity, habit, preparation

I read Chris Guillebeau’s post ‘Why People Hate Marketers‘ and it reminded me of this oldie, but goodie swishism. I totally recommend you read it… if you think your time is too scare to read it… you really need to read it. The links he provides to his ebooks are seriously juicy carrots. If everybody read stuff like this, our phrasing for signing-off would be more like “I’m gonna make myself… abundant now.”

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swishism entry abundance, Art of Non Conformity, attitude, Chris Guillebeau, Marketers, scarcity