This is my passion. This is my dream. This is when I feel most centered. Starting this blog lit a fire under my ass back in November 2010 and I want to share the ambition with you all.
Grad Meets World is kicking things up a notch. New photos, new design, Skype sessions for newbie bloggers, crazy awesome videos and now A MEDIA KIT! That’s right, kiddies, I’m taking the Grad Meets World message as far out as it will go and while I was compiling the kit certain thoughts came to me like BOOM.
Below you’ll find some of the basic truths that have come up for me and many readers during the creative process of running this blog. I’m hoping it will start giving a clearer message of what this movement is all about.
7 Basic Truths of Grad Meets World
Traditional doesn’t work anymore. We want freedom, choices and the ability to create work out of our passions. Cubicle farms kill creativity – and the human spirit along with it.
Life balance is mediocre thinking, it’s a dichotomy that was originally created with the industrial revolution and hasn’t changed much since then – except in so far as the lines between work and life are now more blurry than ever. Life is not linear. Get comfortable with imbalance. Find what makes you tick and run with it instead of trying to balance it all out. Get outside of the box. You’ll be surprised at how much better you will feel.
We’re running business and society with incompetency. Competence doesn’t come from your ability to half-ass some SMART goal your boss handed you. Competence comes from finding what comes naturally to you and exceeding even your own expectations.
Experience is your best teacher in business. You can read all the books you want, get picky over your logo, and get every detail of your business plan written out – it still won’t prepare you. Just dive in and learn as you go along. Perfection is a myth – so stop chasing it.
Your intention is more important than your achievements. People can see through BS. They know the intention behind your services, products and words. Lying in a job interview? Managers can tell. Shoving a product to make a quick buck? Consumers can smell it. You want to achieve great things? Check your intentions daily.
Even baby steps are miraculous. The difference between a successful person and one who is not is that the former got off their bum and started taking baby steps.
Success means different things. Success to me may not be the same as success to you. It’s not the house, the fancy car, the romantic partner or the bank account. It’s how something makes you feel. If the big house makes you feel good – then maybe that’s success to you. But to someone else it could be traveling the world, creating art or simply hanging with their family.
Maybe this is just because this is what I needed to hear today, but I think this is one of the best posts on your blog. Thanks for the kick in the butt Amanda and for sticking up for all of us.
No, thank you for sticking by me! It’s because of you guys I can even write this stuff. I guess my muse was on fire when I wrote this lol.