Eat or Innovate

Mar 24, 2017
1 min read

I remember the first time I heard the word innovation. It seemed like someone was talking about a movie on mars, unrealistic. As I grew up and matriculated in professional circles I started to understand what people meant by innovation.

Even now, in our modern world of work, innovation is a hot word. Mostly, people use the word in a business, product or technology context. I use it in the personal context.

At some point along my journey while attending some conference, it struck me.

Innovating your life is hard to do when you're working two jobs, struggling to keep a roof over your head and raise your family.

Innovation takes energy, that is depleted elsewhere when the fundamentals of your life are skewed, cracked or broken.

If we get a chance. If we have the desire. If we live long enough and hold on to our hopes and dreams, we can do it, we can innovate our lives. Live the life of our dreams.

In one small word, we can have what we long for, if we...