SPECIAL FRIDAY EDITION!!!!!!

"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
--Pablo Picasso, per Katie Westin's Facebook Profile

So our very own wonderful DEBI PASI has a fab new team member, KATIE WESTIN who has a bunch of really great quotes on her Facebook profile. She obviously is going to fit in really well with we of the pink positivity!

This quote from Pablo Picasso was one of them, and I absolutely love the "Duh," factor of this statement. This is the type of thinking we all need to do; it's the little mind-meld that separates those successful people we've all heard of from those talented ones who live in obscurity. Of course, we don't want to meld our minds quite so much as good ol' Picasso did -- I like my ears intact, thank you -- but perhaps we need a little of his bravado to get us closer to our goals.

When you offer the MK opportunity to people, how often do you hear, "Oh, I could NEVER do that!" How often do you say it to yourself about suggestions your director gives you, or ideas we hear at Career Conference and Seminar? I often work with people who have trained for the jobs they hold -- they are teachers, nurses, graphic artists. I wonder, would a nurse try to insert an IV before she'd been trained? I hope she would NEVER do that. But after she is trained, she can do it. She couldn't do it -- until she could. Are you getting my drift?

What is it that we think we can't do? I watch my son; he has no idea that a 7 month old really shouldn't be standing yet. Yet every time I turn around I find him perched precariously on his tippy toes as he hangs on for dear life to whatever inanimate object he's used to pull himself up. Like the bumble bee, no one told him he can't, so he just does.

Does he sometimes go off kilter and flop? Yep. I've considered taping a pillow to his head, because that's what seems to take the impact most of the time. He cries for a minute or two and then with a kiss from me or a tickle from Daddy, he's back to being our smiley little daredevil again. Oh that we in Mary Kay could be so resilient!

How long do your tumbles keep you down? Do you lie there for days, immobile by a "No" or a cancellation? Or do you pull yourself back up?

What do you think would happen in your business if you go out today and painted a masterpiece with the things you "can't" do? Do you purposefully seek out the things you "can't" do, or do you stay comfortable in the safety of the crib -- cuddling into the blankets of all the things you know well and have done before with little or no results? Art requires risk. Learning to walk is scary.
Have you ever thought what might happen if, when you were 7 months old, you never even tried to pull yourself up once? You'd still be scooting around on the floor on your bum. But at that time in your life, you, like Picasso, just did things you couldn't do.

After all, that's how you got to do them.