Constraints bring out innovation...
Matthew Donnell
Founder of Educ'ish | Co-founder @ Workeneur & SwapVend | Platform Builder and Speaker
Magic brushes won't make you a good artist, but a good artist can create magic with any type of brushes.
The idea that you need the best of everything to start creating something is the greatest sense of failure! Often we find creativity bursts into life when we are not able to solve a problem with traditional methods that are easy. Comfort will not help you find the motivation you need to truly push through adversity and along the path of greatness...
It is in this unbalance that magic is born!
Embrace the challenges:
So, instead of bashing those with unlimited resources, blessed by their fortune or support, it is a change of mindset needed to fully take advantage of this logic.
If we can convince ourselves that constraints in any shape or form, are an opportunity to see a problem differently - then we are already 10 steps ahead of the ones that are supposedly blessed by fortune. As a guarantee, those that are given everything will never create something exceptional - because convention and comfort breeds "industry standards". This is the ceiling for anyone fully resourced as they will simply look at the best and try to emulate that level of competence - No ingenuity, no innovation, no surprises!
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Yes, your path will take a lot longer, it will hurt your body and mind much more than you wished, but you will make it further than anyone else could have predicted - and light years ahead of the competition...
Shift the energy:
Adjust your mindset to one that welcomes constraints, in all shapes and sizes. Whatever hand you have been dealt, lean into it and find the positive in a dark place! All it takes is a seed of faith and optimism and nothing is going to break down that fortress of perseverance...
Because by the end of our lives, we don't want to be known for being "industry standard", i for certain want to be remembered as a changer of games!
Focus on your problems and turn them into your biggest strengths!!!
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