DO YOU STOP LONG ENOUGH TO ENJOY WHAT YOUVE CREATED? I speak with so many entrepreneurs who are beating themselves up because they are not accomplishing IN THIS VERY MOMENT all that they want to. Meanwhile, they get amnesia about the successes they have created. Here is a fabulous story and reminder from author Neil Gaiman shared during a commencement speech: When I agreed to give this address, I started trying to think what the best advice Id been given over the years was. And it came from Stephen King twenty years ago, at the height of the success of Sandman. I was writing a comic that people loved and were taking seriously. King had liked Sandman and my novel with Terry Pratchett, Good Omens, and he saw the madness, the long signing lines, all that, and his advice was this: “This is really great. You should enjoy it.” And I didnt. Best advice I got that I ignored.Instead I worried about it. I worried about the next deadline, the next idea, the next story. There wasnt a moment for the next fourteen or fifteen years that I wasnt writing something in my head, or wondering about it. And I didnt stop and look around and go, this is really fun. I wish Id enjoyed it more. Its been an amazing ride. But there were parts of the ride I missed, because I was too worried about things going wrong, about what came next, to enjoy the bit I was on. That was the hardest lesson for me, I think: to let go and enjoy the ride, because the ride takes you to some remarkable and unexpected places.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 22:52:19 +0000
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