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Garnering attention!

By Bamboo In The Wind

It is a good thing to be able to attract attention! After all, not everyone can get it. Apart from personal charm, you are able to get that only with solid accomplishments that yield from a lot of grunt work.

You get something spectacular, something to stop and take note of,with a lot of invisible hard and intelligent work that we can relate to. 

When your work takes roots it is because you made it applicable to your surroundings. How do you know? They shared their mind, told you what was missing, asked you to change what you have, and provided feedback. When you hear from a few, you can be sure you have the ears of others. And trust is building slowly and steadily. 

Trust builds because of consistent, meaningful, applied engineering of desires and expectations of others through your work. Knowing the desires and expectations of others we are interested in is the holy grail of knowing which problems to solve!

Keeping at it for the core of its creation is often the way to go. You will usually be lured to trying to catch attention faster and peddle what you have, even when you have no takers. You will be ridiculed for not following the norm on every nook and corner of public cross-routes!

Forced attention is transient. It stays as long as goodies and things drive up self-importance.

Garnering attention is a slow, long process involving mattering! Mattering to self, someone, and others who need what we have.

It might be a while before someone asks for you! We must stick our necks out and do what is close to our hearts. As long as we can!

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  1. Anonymous20 January 2023 at 14:59

    Good read, motivates to follow our passion!

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