Guidelines for moi
Over at Uniquely the Epitome, Marc Rapp asked a bunch of creative types (including me) to write down some laws that they follow. Here’s Marc’s original post: IT’S THE LAW ( AT LEAST FOR TODAY ). I don’t know if I could say the below nine points are necessarily laws so much as they’re guidelines that I try to follow for the most part. You may have even read one or two of my points somewhere else originally. There’s probably another ten or twenty that I could squeeze out, but then the list just becomes a list that is skimmed over. Thanks for the invite Marc…
1. Keep an open mind, don’t be that expert that isn’t open to new ways of doing things.
2. Mistakes – they’re going to happen. Don’t get caught up in being so tight to be perfect, it will strangle any good idea that may come out.
3. If in doubt, use helvetica.
4. Carry a digital camera at all times.
5. Say thank you.
6. Do something everyday that scares you.
7. Exercise.
8. Karma can bite you in the ass if you’re not careful, so try to treat people the way you’d want to be treated.
9. Blog, and blog often – you can never guess where or what something will lead to.
Nice set of laws. I follow all of these, well, apart from doing something that scares me every day.
Michael, thank you for taking the time to respond. A very humbling list.
Was recently tagged by Asgeir Hoem and now going around checking out others’laws, rules and guidelines. I like your point 6 best. If we don’t do something that scare us, we will forever be in our comfort zone and will always be where we are. For a better tomorrow, we must go into unknown realm, like it or not.
Thanks for all the comments – Vivienne, you might want to check out the post Malfunction as the Crucial Mode of Experiment. It kind of speaks to failure as opposed to fear, though in this context I think they’re interrelated.