One Apple A Day #271
In the last days I’ve been using a set of cards made a dear friend of mine. These cards are special. Each one is a piece of art. Not just in the sense that they are beautiful, and they are, but because they make the invisible visible. Each card is a fragment of the life journey of someone who shared her story with Vanessa. But when you pick a card, that one becomes also a fragment of your life. At least, this is what happens to me.
Each card is the prompt of new story. In most cases, a story that is hiding somewhere within, waiting for someone or something to crack the code and liberate it.
But the cards are also challenging. They may ask you to look in those corners that you keep avoiding, for the fear that with the story, an inner monster would come out.
I decided to use the cards to prompt my morning writing. I felt it is a great opportunity to make this little morning practice, my apple a day, more meaningful to me.
This morning the card says “renewing of the relationship that are already there”.
Renewing, already there.
What does this card want to tell me?
Innovation. To innovate means to change something that already exist. To renew something that is already there.
We naturally associate innovation with technology inventions, big changes, research and, in the end, business and organisations. But what about me? What about my life?
I’ve been reading and studying, and writing about innovation for months now. I believe that innovation must start from the being. That the new challenges of this world require a new mindset, and new heartset more than new methods.
But if it is a new mindset I am looking for, shouldn’t that mindset apply also to my life? To my relationships?
Here’s the invitation of the card, then.
To be innovative also in my relationships, to seek change and movement, to be open to the unknown, and to fall in love with the mistery, not only with the story.