WEBVTT - Revisit your old work

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of My Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to revisit your old work. If you

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<v Speaker 1>have any past work products, or projects, take a little

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<v Speaker 1>time to review them. You might get some ideas for

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<v Speaker 1>new projects or insights into your life in general. I

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<v Speaker 1>have been unpacking boxes of books lately, yes, more than

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<v Speaker 1>a year after moving into this house, and at least

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<v Speaker 1>some of those books have been my own. So I

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<v Speaker 1>have taken a few minutes to read what I wrote

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<v Speaker 1>in the past, and not all of it is amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>Some things I might put differently now, but sometimes I

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<v Speaker 1>still smile at a turn phrase. And while some topics

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<v Speaker 1>don't seem nearly as pressing as they did a decade

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<v Speaker 1>or more ago, some things are still relevant. That last

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<v Speaker 1>truth has meant that I found some new ideas for

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<v Speaker 1>newsletters and blog posts and podcasts taking bits of my

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<v Speaker 1>old work and reinterpreting them for today. I suppose it

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<v Speaker 1>is modestly more apparent how this would work with say,

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<v Speaker 1>old books versus other types of work. But I do

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<v Speaker 1>think that many of us are sitting on a great

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<v Speaker 1>many things that could be repurposed or reinterpreted. Doing so

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<v Speaker 1>could liven up your current work. For instance, maybe you

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<v Speaker 1>have written some professional articles or posts for your organization's website.

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<v Speaker 1>If you read through these, is there anything that might

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<v Speaker 1>be reusable now? Or perhaps see worked on a project

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<v Speaker 1>you rather enjoyed for a large client a few years ago.

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<v Speaker 1>If you revisit your notes or presentations now, does anything

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<v Speaker 1>stand out as relevant to current problems. If you approach

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<v Speaker 1>your past work with an open mind, all sorts of

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<v Speaker 1>connections might present themselves. For instance, I often see I

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<v Speaker 1>interviewed someone interesting who I haven't thought of in a while.

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<v Speaker 1>This provides a nudge to reach out. Maybe you note

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<v Speaker 1>a colleague who you mentioned in your notes who has

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<v Speaker 1>since moved on to a different job. What a great

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<v Speaker 1>reason to reach out and see what's going on. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>guessing at least a phone call or a lunch or

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<v Speaker 1>something will arise out of this and lead to some

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<v Speaker 1>interesting possibilities in the future. Or perhaps someone mentioned a

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<v Speaker 1>resource like a video or a book that you couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>check out at the time. Maybe now you've got a

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<v Speaker 1>little more capacity so you can Or someone came up

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<v Speaker 1>with an idea for a new kind of project you

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<v Speaker 1>could do but you never pursued it. Maybe there is

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<v Speaker 1>a germ of an idea in there that you could

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<v Speaker 1>pitch to a new client. It's really hard to know

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<v Speaker 1>what you'll find, but our past work represents what our

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<v Speaker 1>past selves spent a lot of time thinking about. If

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<v Speaker 1>you are a hard working creative person, now most likely

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<v Speaker 1>you were a hard working and creative person. Then we

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<v Speaker 1>tend to move on from things once we finish them,

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<v Speaker 1>but ideas might have a longer shelf life than we

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<v Speaker 1>give them, and pieces from one thing can often be

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<v Speaker 1>used for something else. So today, go find the files

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<v Speaker 1>and results from some past project. Spend a few minutes

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<v Speaker 1>looking through them. See what memories come up, what people

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<v Speaker 1>you think of, what ideas come to mind. Maybe nothing happens,

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<v Speaker 1>in which case you've only spent a few minutes on this,

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<v Speaker 1>the equivalent of a random email check that didn't have

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<v Speaker 1>to happen. Or maybe you will come up with something brilliant,

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<v Speaker 1>in which case this was time well spent. In the meantime,

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<v Speaker 1>this is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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