Every relationship I ever ruined suffered from the same dysfunction.
We got lazy with each other.
Somewhere down the line, we no longer bothered to bother. We no longer took a minute to make a moment. Caring became a chore, and complacency became the norm.
No wonder those relationships never worked out.
But not this time. Since then, we've adopted a new mantra. Something my dad said that echoed in my heart forever.
I kind of knew what he meant at the time, but it took a while for the idea to truly settle in.
Now that we've relocated to New York, what we're starting to realize is that the city isn't just a pile of buildings.
The city is anything worth blowing up for love. The city is anything competing for shelf space in our hearts. The city is anything in our lives that, without love, doesn't matter.
Career. Wealth. Ego. Pride. Whatever.
Let it go, let it crumble and let love take over every square inch of our lives.
To invite people to join me, to remind the world that face to face is making a comeback and to create spontaneous moments of authentic human interaction infused with a spirit of humor, playfulness and connection.
And if a picture is worth a thousand words, a nametag is worth a thousand stories.
Here are my most recent adventures:
DAY 4,099: Today I met a guy at a party who asked why I was wearing a nametag. I told him I just moved to New York and didn't know anybody. He said, "I've lived here forever and I still don't know anybody!"
DAY 4,121: Today the bouncer at the door examined my driver's license and said, "I guess your name really is Scott." Then we discovered we were at the wrong bar.
DAY 4,122: Today my yoga instructor thanked me for wearing a nametag. She said it made her job easier. Then, during final meditation, she sang “The Greatest Love of All.” Man, I’m really going to miss Whitney Houston.
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What's your nametag?
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To hit the target that matters most, we have to shoot with our own ammo.
We have to hire ourselves, fight for what we believe in and execute our own vision, on our own time and on our own dime, fingers stuck in our ears, ready to rock on a moment’s notice.
That way, it won’t matter if we win or lose. It won’t matter how many people don’t love us. We’ll still earn attention and respect for doing our own thing. We’ll still walk home happy. And we’ll still have the satisfaction of hiring ourselves.
Because in the end, it doesn’t matter if the world likes what we make.
It only matters if we own the story behind it.
When the story we tell is our own, we’re always successful, even if we’re not successful.
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What did you create yesterday?
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Because when we have a job, that means we can lose it.
On the other hand, if the work we do every day is our art, our passion, the thing that’s under our fingernails, the thing that means everything in the world to us, then nobody can take that away.
It’s ours, always, forever.
Not because it’s a job, but because we simply do our work in a creative, collaborative, passionate, and meaningful way, it creates value that makes people’s lives better, it’s why they compensate us accordingly, and it’s what enables us to live the life we want.
Who said anything about a job?
If we want security, we just hire ourselves and go to work.
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What do you do all day?
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Every relationship I ever ruined suffered from the same dysfunction.
Never the same speech twice.
