If you would have told me a year ago that I would be facilitating most of my trainings online... and that I'd actually be enjoying it I would have laughed so hard! This year has been full of what I'm calling, 'Creativity by Constraint.' We've had to figure out quickly how to be the experts in a space most of us have intentionally avoided for, oh, EVER. (Or at least I have!)

There's something to be said about Creativity by Constraint... For me, I need deadlines to keep me moving forward. I have what I jokingly call, Shiny Object Syndrome... loads of fun side projects that I could spend my time doing, (house renovations, gardening/farming, designing new games/products, video shoots, camping, fly fishing, volunteering, etc.) so if I don't have goals or events that motivate me I can easily get distracted. This newsletter is a great example of Creativity by Constraint for me. I know that by Tuesday of every week that I need to know what I'm writing about, what I want to put on sale and then make time to populate my newsletter template. I will admit that there are weeks that I wake up on Wednesday and go, "Dang it! It's Wednesday!" and quickly head to my computer to be creative in the moment. I swear some of my best newsletter articles have been the ones that I sat down and created in the moment, rather then planning and thinking about it too much.

This week Chris and I focused our Podcast Episode on a similar topic, and the question we tackled was: 'As Team Builders, How Do We Consciously Keep Things Fresh?'  Give this episode a listen!

Best wishes for an intentionally full and creative week!