Game Changer Series No. 3 - Ignite a Higher Caliber of Design

What is a higher caliber of design?

Higher caliber means achieving a greater level of quality, distinction, excellence, talent, expertise, and capacity. This needs to create a significant shift in the current manner of doing or thinking about something.

How does a person build a high caliber of design?

1. Create a voracious appetite to add to what you know regularly.

• Where will your significant shift be if you do this? (Quality and excellence.)
• "Sit with the winners, the conversation is different."
• "If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room."
• Expand your resources of learning.

2. Develop intentional anticipation.

• Where will  your significant shift be if you do this?
• "Anticipation is a wonderfully proactive and intentional word for seeking out significance." "People with anticipation plan to be significant." - John Maxwell
• Anticipation helps us generate good ideas.

3. Spend time in new places.

• Where will your significant shift be if you do this?
• Check your default mood before you visit.
• Make these places that have nothing to do with your industry.
• Look with fresh eyes. Listen with anticipation. A more astute observation can be subtle yet invaluable.

4. Find your verve.

• Where will your significant shift be if you do this?
• Practice approaching each day with zest, sparkle, fizz, dynamism, vigor, spirit, enthusiasm, gusto!
• What are your "aha verve moments" you can write down at the end of your day?

Create an experience that is so enticing that people look at it and say, "I want that"! Deliver the WOW! Resonate!

 

The Game Changer Series is a discussion-based series that I recently wrote and completed with a team of interior designers.

Sources: Intentional Living - Choosing a Life that Matters - Choosing a Life that Matters - John Maxwell, 6 Step to Creating a Game Changer - Mike Myatt (Forbes), The Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin, Start with the Why - Simon Sinek, Visual Intelligence – Amy E. Herman, The Trendmaster’s Guide: The Trendmaster’s Guide from A-Z – Robyn Waters, 3 Questions to Ask Yourself About Everything you do – Stacey Abrams