How many times did you roll the dice last week?
Maybe you moved to Brighton to find more of your kind of career opportunities. Chances are making as much profit as possible isn't what excites you. You don't crave having power over as many people and resources as possible. Doing deals and making sales isn't what you want to be best at. You want to work differently and do business differently. That's how I felt when I started my first business in Brighton back in 2006 and most of the people I enjoy working with feel the same. You want to be purpose driven. You want to apply progressive business practices that put people first, support the wider community and prioritise the planet. You want your products and services to be so good they sell themselves. Sustainably making all that work isn't easy. Some people and businesses have a steady source of high quality opportunities and leads. Everything in business becomes easier when you have that. You can pick and choose who you work with. You can stick to working the way you want to work. You can decide what you'll do, when you do it and charge a premium. For the rest of us good opportunities and leads come seemingly at random. It's like someone rolled the dice and got a double six for you. You bump into a neighbour and discover they have a problem at work that you can help with. An old colleague emails you out of the blue. A client you've not spoken to in years recommends you to someone. What if you could significantly increase the number of times the dice got rolled for you... or you started rolling it more yourself? Here are a few rolls of the dice that have resulted in (direct and indirect) double sixes for me over the years:
They might not be the right things for you to do. But I highly recommend figuring out some ways to roll your dice a few more times each week. This post was inspired by a conversation I had with Ali Najaf last week. He rolled the dice by emailing me out of the blue. We'd not spoken for around 5 years. He's one of the best senior developers/technologists I know and he's looking for some new projects to get his teeth into. It would be remiss of me not to mention coworking at this point. Working in the same place as other people every so often can work extraordinarily well as a roll of the dice. In part 3 of our audio project a few members of The Skiff talk about the impact The Skiff has had on their careers: |
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