Jun 09 2019
YOUR BUSINESS STAR… FILM INDUSTRY LESSONS
YOUR BUSINESS STAR…
FILM INDUSTRY LESSONS
Just brought my “think out of the box” business life and teachings back from the Cannes Film Festival.
The experience opened doors. New insights planted themselves in the middle of my pursuit path. The surroundings of this venture, highlighted by a breath-taking daylong drive from Geneva through the Alps to the French Riviera, were amplified by the seemingly endless clamber of the 12,000+ Festival participants who each in their own way sought the spotlights and camera lenses… often, while pretending not to.
The experience literally seemed to stun-gun my mind. What did I learn that might be good food for thought for every business and professional practice owner and manager?
Working smarter, not harder is no better than working harder not smarter.
Business success come only through a strong sense of balance.
A good place to start improving your business balance is to take inventory of your commitment to never cease searching for ways to improve your product, your service, your attitude, your story, your people, and the lives of your customers, clients and patients.
Serving as a makeshift Executive Producer for an emerging (pre-production) original feature musical film (LOVE IS… Click on logo above for the less-than-2-minute “Sizzle Reel”) has been a major chunk of my life since helping to launch the forerunner stage version three years ago.
I’ve learned –sometimes the hard way– that with every tiny aspect of a film –from words, music, and sound effects, to direction, production, gestures, budgets, lighting, cameras, film-editing, marketing, branding, promotion, legalities, you name it:
Everything changes every minute of every hour of every day of every week of every month of every year.
It is changing me as I write this and will no doubt continue to as long as I keep open-minded enough to accept that. It will change even as the movie is being filmed and recorded and edited and even after it’s done in the ways that it is branded and promoted.
WOW!, you might say, that sounds nerve-wracking!
Well guess what else I learned? Every business has the same dynamics. We have simply come to accept that many of the businesses and practices we own and manage never change. We often just accept that our businesses follow specific rules and that those rules limit change.
BALONEY!
Each of us changes every minute of every day in some way. We simply turn ourselves off to being receptive to that thought because it somehow threatens our existences.
Rising above that “being stuck in the mud” mindset is key to achieving record growth with our business pursuits and ourselves.
Think about all that next time you watch a movie… maybe even before that? It’s called renewing your own sense of self-awareness. What have you got to lose besides a false sense of self-security?
