We are pushing very hard right now in our business. Pushing the software, pushing the consulting, pushing the employees, pushing ourselves. Long hours, lots of flights, late-nights and early mornings get many people asking for a little time to "get away". Who can blame them? Everyone needs some time away from the job to decompress and think. An avenue of open possibilities and freed schedules is in mine and many other's opinions completely necessary to good mental/physical health.
Yet, here I sit in this hotel room outside Chicago waiting for a phone call, doing work, and preparing to catch the train into the city to present CultureWaves and neemee to another potential client. My get-away mentality is overcome by my Getting-Away-With-It behavior. I might be different from some of the readers out there, maybe I am just a lone crazy person in the net - but somehow I don't think that is true? I don't need a break, I need it to break wide open. I want to Get Away With It!
Imagine the first time Elvis stood on stage at the Ed Sullivan Show, gyrating his hips and making an otherwise unforeseen spectacle of the modern crooner. Oprah Winfrey, coming from a little market like Nashville and making herself into a dynamic business/brand. Billy Ball proving in major league baseball that you can build a winner using a small ball mentality. Barrack Obama spending money in states he doesn't think he can win in to prepare for influencing strategy in the future. Perry Ferrel starting an abhorrently bad idea that was HUGELY successful in Lollapalooza. Billy Graham with the promotion of Hearst papers took a three week revival to 8 weeks and became a recognized religious leader in this country. Cultural Revolutionaries.
I admire some of these people, other mentions are barely passable for Trivia Pursuit answers, but the point is the same for me. People who shot out of nowhere, did something unbelievable pure to themselves, and changed the fabric of our lives if only in minor ways. We all die, we all end, we all have to contribute or not - therefor I don't merely want to get away...I want to GET-AWAY-WITH-IT.
Many people want to be defiant, unstoppable, and accepted. Revolutionary thought and desire gain acceptance through reason. Emotion and passion carry the lion-share of the work though. These examples that I used might have been unconcerned with acceptance, but they were accepted anyway. That's the rub in my article however...being prepared for isolation and rejection, and still desiring to be accepted.
