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We Need To Be Kids Again

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I know I haven’t posted in awhile, but good things come to those who wait. :)

This will probably be the most important post I’ve written on this blog.

Let’s start with a question:

Do you remember what it was like to be a child?

You wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a dentist, whatever…

Why aren’t you?

But that’s not the point…the point is you lived and imagined without limitations…without fear, without “experience” (because you didn’t have any yet).

And now, your “experience” gets in the way of being a kid again.

What happens when you start dreaming of the business you wanted to create (no matter how “stupid” it might seem)?  What happens when you want to try some unorthodox method of marketing your current business?

Yep…experience gets in the way of you being a kid.  You have an opportunity to truly enjoy life, to live by your own terms…and your damn “experience” gets in the way of doing that.

Fuck experience.

Do it anyway.

Build the business you wanted to build all along, market it the way YOU wanted to all along, be an astronaut, be a dentist…join the Peace Corps…whatever.

Who said your experience was always a good thing?  It seems like it’s saving you the trouble, that “wisdom” prevails…but what is it keeping you from doing?

Now, I’m not saying it’s a good idea to jump in front of a bus or anything, but is that experience talking?  Or was it instinct?  (Hmmm….)

Don’t do anything stupid…or should you?

Have you ever thought about experience this way:

Every time you have an “experience”, it’s like a sheet of paper, gently landing on top of you…and over time, thousands of these sheets of paper pour on you.

In the end, you end up getting buried in paper…right?  The real you, the child, the kid screaming to get out from under all of that paper…the “experience” you build up…the “wisdom” that supposedly is “saving” you from making a bad choice.

We have GOT to be kids again.  Sure, after you break your arm, you learn not to jump head first off of the jungle gym…but should that “experience” save you from jumping out of an airplane with a parachute?

It certainly tries to.

If you wanted to write that book, but you’re afraid of what the people in your audience will think of you after you publish…that’s experience talking again.

To be creative means you’re telling experience NO!

Now, don’t get me wrong, some experience does in fact keep you safe, like when you decided it was cool to try licking an electrical outlet in your house.  (not cool, and my tongue was numb for hours afterwards)

So, in the end, try telling your experience NO once in awhile…you just might be able to break out from under that pile of papers again.

We need to be kids again.  Have a Happy New Year everyone.


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