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		<description><![CDATA[I taped this note to my monitor this morning: Seems kinda lame that I would need to remind myself to do great work. It&#8217;s easy for me to write myself stickies and create Google calendar alarms for stuff like &#8220;Taxes,&#8221; &#8220;Book flight to NYC,&#8221; or even client deadlines. Am I really going to forget to...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I taped this note to my monitor this morning:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1282" title="note to self" src="http://sparkyfirepants.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/IMG_1026-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></p>
<p>Seems kinda lame that I would need to remind myself to do great work.</p>
<p>It's easy for me to write myself stickies and create Google calendar alarms for stuff like "Taxes," "Book flight to NYC," or even client deadlines.</p>
<p>Am I really going to forget to do those? Unlikely.</p>
<p>The thing I should be more concerned about is remembering to create the kind of work that matters. I get so buried in the day-to-day details of running a business that sometimes I forget to work on those great things I set out to do early on.</p>
<h2>Oh, look – here's some great work now...</h2>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/tzaddi" target="_blank">Tzaddi Gordon</a> and I are teaming up to create some great work. Tzaddi runs <strong><a href="http://thrivewire.ca/" target="_blank">ThriveWire</a></strong>, where she creates "kick-ass, grown-up web sites YOU can update." I love that and I was thrilled when we figured out a way to do something awesome together.</p>
<p>We're still in development so I don't want to spill the entire can of beans yet, but we'll be offering a semi-custom WordPress web site package. Every day that we work on it, things get clearer and, well, awesomer.</p>
<p>Collaborating on this work of art has been a great experience for me. Tzaddi and I are very different in our approaches to solving problems and creating ideas, which is just perfect. If we thought about everything the same, the point of collaboration would be lost.</p>
<p>See, Tzaddi is fantastic at culling our project notes into easily-accessible docs that we share on Google. I have a very strange way of drawing my notes in a sketchbook that's too big to scan. It turns out <a href="http://thrivewire.ca/blog/two-heads-really-are-better-than-one/" target="_blank">we need both methods (and two heads) to get this done.</a></p>
<p>Doing great work is why I started this circus in the first place. Creating it with really smart, creative people is a bonus.</p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><em>Stay tuned. Tzaddi and I will be letting people in on our <strong>work of art</strong> very soon. Stay tuned here, at ThriveWire, or follow us on Twitter: <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/sparkyfirepants" target="_blank">sparkyfirepants</a></strong> <strong><a href="http://twitter.com/tzaddi" target="_blank">tzaddi</a></strong></em></span></p>
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