I stumbled onto this list collated by Matt Spry about what he learnt from this year’s Do Lectures. This is great advice for anyone to lead their lives.
Here is the entire list as quoted by him on his post here.
1. Do less, but better
2. Consciously choose everything you do
3. Follow your curiosity, talk to more people, try things, tell your story
4. Set small experiments with low expectations
5. Always look to the edges for inspiration and a glimpse of future
6. Our work and values may not change but our response to changing context should
7. Draw more
8. See things as they are, but strive for the future you want
9. Long-term thinking and relationships still matter
10. Create considered content, not just more noise
11. Look for where your personal voice and commercial opportunity meet
12. Your work exists in a continuum, building on the work of others, and will exist after you’ve gone…what legacy do you want to leave?
13. What is the “from…to…” you want to create?
14. What is most interesting to you? Follow that
15. The “doorstep mile” is the hardest
16. Build adventure into everyday, whatever that means to you
17. Ask how can you put others in a position to succeed wildly
18. Remember that nobody knows what they’re doing! We’re all making it up as we go along
19. Take a long-term view of the change you want to make – how would that change the way you do things?
20. What does the world need now that you are uniquely able to deliver?
21. Find and celebrate the soul or essence of every organisation
22. “to know is to be in a prison, to not know is to be free”
23. We must have the gumption and guts to do what we know is right
24. Beauty and fun is often in the little things
25. what we nurture will grow
26. Space and environment matters more than we realise
27. Doing things the hard way can be more rewarding
28. Spend time with your tribe
29. Control what you let into your body and mind – our physical and emotional wellbeing is an expression of being in balance
30. Don’t settle – challenge, change, experiment
31. Ask what we can do to serve those closest to you
32. Keep things simple, always fight complexity
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I had made a similar list sometime back, a code to live my life by. You can find the same here.
Do you have your code or manifesto which guides your life and the choices that you make? As Matt shares, we need to be conscious and intentional about what we want to do and how we want to lead our lives in order to make a difference.
