The thing that fuels me is interacting with and helping people, real time.
For some reason, this is easy to forget! Not all projects involve a great deal of human interaction, and I honestly don’t think I realized before how important it was for me to reconnect on a regular basis to something moving, breathing & human. I found some clarity on this when I told Larah that I needed a pickmeup, and it didn’t have to be a specific kind of work or brainstorming… all I needed was the conversation. I needed to ask questions and answer them. I needed the exchange of entrepreneurial energy.
This is why it is sometimes so energizing for me to just help someone else, even if I’m not getting any help with what I perceive is my problem… because the real time interaction and the questions and the solving all fuel me. There’s something about that activity, working with someone, that engages and lights up all the parts of my brain. And when I get off the phone, I have Important Things To Do.
And I do them, instead of making vague productive noises and checking my email again.
Is there something specific that fuels you? Something intuitive (or not) that makes everything suddenly… click?
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Megan Elizabeth Morris (aka MEM, Megan the M.) is a bonafide professional catalyst and adventurer. She's the Ideaschema instigator, orchestrator and autodidact, and you can find out more about her by clicking here.Got an idea? Something we haven't thought of? Whatever you're thinking, we want to hear it. Please feel free to leave comments or email us by clicking here.
