Here's a recent lesson I learned on choosing the right words and a lesson on the importance of taking new perspectives.
Over the last few weeks, my business partner and I have experienced some bumps in the road at getting our business up and running. After a couple of free trials that didn't end up being converted into paid clients I was feeling depressed and deflated. And with summer fast approaching, I decided to pull back from our work.
Or that's what I thought. After talking with Bert about my feelings, we decided that I wasn't pulling back at all. Pulling back gave the impression that I was not interested in Kpedia. But the opposite is true. It's just that I was too close to the project -- my nose too close to the perverbial grindstone and it was hard to see anything else. I was trying to force an outcome. So, after talking, we discovered that, in fact, the better word for what was happening was I was pulling up.
I found it liberating, encouraging and relieved to choose a word that more accurately described my feelings. You see, by pulling up I can get a better perspective on something that I was previously just too close to. Let's see how that new perspective helps create new ideas and emotions. Stay tuned!
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