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how to hone refreshingly honest political soundbites
© 2012 Dave Weinberg
how to make it more concrete
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how to downplay your success
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how to get beyond latex exteriors
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how to get beyond perceived brick walls
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how to make your own fun recycling found objects near the BQE
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how to be set in one’s views
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how to get in thru the back door of portland, maine
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how to deliver around the globe
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how to go to hell
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how to get something you really want but only cause someone else has it
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how to sift through the detritus to get yourself moving again
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how to find a sign that your 8 hour workday doesn’t work that way anymore
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how to know it’s time to revisit your customer re-engagement policies
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
how to excuse yourself while you kiss the sky
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how to expect any more bright ideas
© 2011 Jim Frederick
how to not blend in
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how to see things from monday’s perspective
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how to be anal un-retentive
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how to share a different perspective
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how to let things grow on you
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#cellphoneSketchpad: the ‘No Idling’ eBook cover collaboration with @worldmegan for @projectdomino
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
Thrilled to collaborate with fellow linchpin Domino Project Street Team members to produce ‘No Idling: 30 stories inspired by Do the Work‘. Also download Do the Work – free for the Kindle (apps available for non-kindle devices) until May 20.
The cellphoneSketch, NO IDLING was captured upon descent from the High-Line in NYC back in February, 2011. It seemed like the perfect image and message for an eBook based on Steven Pressfield’s recent – Do the Work.
Why? It expands on the theme of Pressfield’s work. The act of idling is what most of us are doing when we encounter resistance. We’re ON, there’s somebody home but we’re not moving. NO IDLING is a call to action and assertion to keep moving.
Why this image?
Symbols.
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1. Brick wall is a metaphor for blockage or being stopped dead in your tracks. It’s an obstacle. The sign is a challenge, an appeal and call to action to find a way to move through it.
2. The sign says ‘NO IDLING’ but at first glance it reads as ‘IDLING’. The ‘shadow’ covers the word ‘NO’ and isn’t it our shadow selves that can undermine our otherwise productive behavior?
3. The shadow cast is a particular moment in time. Had this image been taken 5 minutes before or after it would have had a completely different meaning. Resistance works like this too. It is fluid (or shadowy…). Not always there but seems to show up at critical moments in time that may prevent us from doing the work.
4. These stories are from real people who have and/or are struggling with and recognizing their shadow selves – seeing through the shadow to the ‘real’ message beneath and ultimately persevering and DOing the Work.
I also like the symbolism of capturing it (or it capturing me…) coming off the ‘High’ line – an incredible architectural, artistic, public, tribal project in and of itself.
The best part however, was collaborating with fabulous illustrator, Megan Elizabeth Morris who turned the shadowy NO into the people who do the work of YES!
how to leave no stone unturned
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
how to not fit in
© Dave Weinberg
unexpected origami
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the opposite of discouragement
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to move forward or not to move forward –
that is the question
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
Today’s post inspired by Poke the Box – from The Domino Project , powered by Amazon, the W 20th Street decent from Manhattan’s Highline, oh… and the sun.