TRAIN YOUR MENTAL GAME

The surprising power in everyday creativity

Do you have a creative outlet, something other than what you do for work? If so, you’ll relate to today’s post. It’s about a silly little creative project that just lit me up. If not, watch it twice! :-) The more creative things like this you can have in your life, the better. Either way, enjoy! SUMMARY A fun story of everyday creativity. How it’s been lost in our modern lives—and what it costs us. The important difference between creativity and entertainment. Watch/listen to get the full message. HOT NEWS & DEALS! 1) The David Levin Show podcast is now available. Subscribe at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-david-levin-show/id1401013964 2) Free guide: "Three Things You Can Do Right Now To Start Loving Your Work (And Life) Again.” Visit davidlevin.com to get yours today! 3) COMING SOON: Limited Edition Raise Your Inner Game Medallion. Carry it in your purse or pocket. It’s an UP button for your Inner Elevator! Watch for an announcement. WHAT I’M READING “Nemesis Games.” James Corey. Just finished this, the 5th book in the Expanse series. I LOVE these books. Great sci fi. Trying to force a break before picking up the next one. :-) “Getting to Yes.” Roger Fisher, William Ury. Heard about this book over and over. Figured I should finally pick it up. “Spy Master.” Brad Thor. Might not finish this one. Don’t care for the writing. That’s me being polite. :-) Not sure why I bought it. We’ll see how it goes. ENJOY THE PODCAST [ transcript ] Hey, it’s David Levin. author of Raise Your Inner Game, co author of QBQ the Question Behind the Question. Founder of Raise Your Inner Game ACADEMY. Do you have a creative outlet in your life? Something other than your normal work? I hope so, because having one makes a HUGE difference in your life. Let me tell you a little story. My son Peter and I were planning to go to the big airshow in Oshkosh Wisconsin a couple weeks ago. If you don’t know, the Oshkosh airshow, it’s called AirVenture, is I believe the biggest airshow in the world. It’s just huge. It’s not even really an airshow in the way you normally think of it. It’s a gigantic convention, like hundreds of thousands of people, over a full week, totally devoted to aviation. It’s like the biggest state fair you’ve ever been to, but only for things that fly. It’s really too big to get your head around. You have to experience it for yourself. Great if you like airplanes. Maybe not so much if you don’t. So anyway, I’ve been many times. Peter and I have been at least once before. And knowing how exhausting it can be, I really wanted to have a good system for taking care of ourselves while we’re there. Basically, I wanted to use this folding wagon we have to hold all the stuff we’d want with us on the grounds. Stools for sitting and taking a break. There aren’t a lot of places to sit there. Umbrellas for shade, there’s very little shade, and you know, the last week of July, it can be hot. Water bottles. Snacks. Sunscreen. Just all kinds of things I wanted to have with us, and I didn’t want to carry them in backpacks because that just adds to the effort, having to lug all that around. So a wagon works great. But when we go there, we have to camp. And the show is so big, that the camping, which is really just basically tens of thousands of people — and I’m not kidding — all crammed into basically just a huge grass field that’s like a mile square. It’s insane. Anyway, the camp area is over a mile away from the show itself, so the question is, how do you get all that stuff there? They have shuttle busses, but those can take a long time, be pretty frustrating and stuffy, also I didn’t think we could get all the stuff on the bus. So I decided the best plan was to take bicycles, to ride to and from the show, and to figure out a way to pull the wagon behind the bike. So now we get to the creative project. How to connect the wagon to the bike?