I'm creating my business a lot more like I created my career when I was 22. Here's why. When I was 22, despite having an undergraduate business degree, I didn't know what the rules of business were. Much more importantly, I didn't actually care. I knew what I knew and it was working for me and the businesses I worked with.
When I got to my thirties I started believing the stupid stuff people told me, and that's when I got burnout and my daily work became suckier than the company's biggest brown-nose. So... what did I know? And what do YOU know?
1. You know what you know. Back yourself. Even if everyone tells you you are wrong. If you know... you know. Most of the lies people tell you are so they can control you or compete with you. Trust YOU.
2. Be adventurous. Create the adventures in business YOU would like to have. I loved doing the things no-one else had done. And I chose my bosses based on whether they were willing for me to take some creative risks. (It worked great until they went onto greener pastures and were replaced with someone not quite as fun!!)
3. Play with your work. Find ways to be creative and to allow *YOU* to show up in your brilliance. I almost always expanded the marketing plans so that I could implement strategies that allowed my talents to shine.
4. Say no to mindless meetings that don't have a clear target. They're only useful for sucking the life out of you or creating a judgement-fest of what people haven't done or should do. What kinds of meetings would create more for you and the business? Create those instead.
5. Creativity and innovation always outcreate hard work. I had a lot of both going on, but the ideas that made the biggest impact always came from a creative space first.
Read my blog here:
http://www.creativitylab.tv/your_creativity_lab/22-brilliant-things-my-22-year-old-self-knew-about-business