You don’t follow best practices to stand out or the crowd.
You follow best practices to become a part of the ‘average’ crowd that strives to offer consistently above-average results.
Author: J Cleveland Payne
Respecting Your Authority
There is something to being an ‘authority’ that gives the opinions you have significant weight.
And there is something to just being conscience and having an opinion you are willing to give that has its weight, significant or not.
Walking & Chewing Bubble Gum
People do not fear being asked if they can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.
People fear being handed a trombone and then being pointed to a tightrope.
Backstories & Your Story Telling
Something I have learned studying more people who declare themselves ‘storytellers’ is that they use a lot of other people’s stories to convey their own messages.
And that is fine, as long as they are careful not to misremember and begin to claim others stores as their own.
Of course, I have found that I have to be careful not to fall so in love with another person’s story that I turn it from an example of what can happen that occurred to a person I know to an example of what happened way back when to me.
Similarly, you cannot have any of my backstories. You can use bits and pieces to fill out a few points in the stories you tell, but my history is my history. It is possible you could have a similar history or have been right there beside. Even so, your story will differ from mine because two different people lived the event.
Besides, you’ve got plenty of backstories to pull from ready to use right now. You don’t need to poach from anyone else.
Two Consistent Questions About ‘Unfinished Thoughts’
There are two consistent questions I field about publishing these ‘Unfinished Thoughts’ on this blog.
One is a question about my commitment based on the inconsistency of publishing these messages. The other is a question of the value based on the infrequent of true epiphanies published.
The first question is valid, and my main answer is the chaos of life and my inability to monetize my creative work (primarily based on the chaos of life).
The second question is total BS and tells more about the stupidity o the one posing the question than the skill and talent of the one requested to answer.
While these quick messages are meant to motivate and inspire, if a person truly needs a statement that will genuinely shatter the foundation of their being every day to function, they have a severe addiction, and not even fentanyl can quench it.
And I don’t feel sorry for a single person who needs to ask the second question.