What Is The Creative Process and Success?

One of my colleagues at work had this hanging on his wall. 

It caught my eye and I thought it was worth sharing.

The creative process (ah, not my style of working, however–I am too much of a planner and worrier): 

1) Work Begins – It starts with, “I have a bright idea” or a “go do” from some other genius. 

2) F*ck Off – Then comes some procrastination and maybe thought process about what you are going to do, but in the meantime, everyone leave me alone to percolate and brew. 

3) Panic – Of sh*t, time is running out, and where the h*ck am I on this project, better get my a*s in gear. 

4) All the work while crying – Hurry, hurry, hurry and get it done. Wa, I feel like such a crybaby and wreck, but I’m going to finish it, I am. 

5) Deadline – Made it by a hair…uh, the whole thing was easy, for me, as pie!

Another thing that I heard this week is that “success is failing to fail.”  

Think about that a minute.  😉

(Source Photo: here with attribution to Toothpaste for Dinner)

Making The Deadline

It was funny at work recently.

The team was having some “technical difficulties” getting something done. 

It wasn’t like it wasn’t going to happen, it was just taking a little longer than expected. 

I was riding herd on this, since we had made a commitment to get it done by a certain date and time and it was important to get it right. 

After a number of delays, I started to question whether we were really going to be able to meet the deadline, and one of my colleagues asks about how the boss will react if we don’t make it. 

Then all of a sudden, they blurt out, “Is he going to sh*t a brick if we don’t make it?”

I was a little taken aback at the saying, but then it was sort of a funny image of the extreme kvetchy face a person would be making in such a situation–trying to pass not a (little) stone, but literally a big brick. 

As it turns out, we made the deadline–although we had to use the buffer time we had carefully built in–and the team did a great job, so no bricks, no stones, and just kudos all around. 😉

(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)

Soften The Hearts

This last year has shown some difficult negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran.

 

It seems as if the P5+1 have been doing everything possible to get Iran to stop pursuing dangerous WMD, but that the response is just forever, “No.”

 

So the deadline for a deal was extended once again. 

 

Many are saying no deal is better than a bad deal–and that certainly makes sense. 

 

The key is for national and global security to take precedence over any deal for deal’s sake.

 

Everyone desperately wants peace, but it should be a real and lasting and verifiable peace.

 

Most people are good and want peace, but there are always those extremists who have an irrational hatred and seek nothing but power and destruction, and they says things like they want to “annihilate Israel” or seek to build ICBMs that can reach Europe and America. 

 

Oh L-rd, please soften the hearts in Iran to agree to a real and lasting peace that safeguards us, and that brings prosperity and betterment to the world. 

 

Maybe this next extension will be the charm–let’s hope and pray.

 

Note: The characters in the cartoon are fictional and do not intend any disrespect to anyone–simply the hope for a softening of hearts and minds of Iran’s leaders, and with that the attainment of a real and verifiable peace with this next round of negotiations. 

 

All opinions my own.