{"id":10568,"date":"2018-09-09T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:33:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T20:33:51","slug":"putting-a-note-on-the-digital-fridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=10568","title":{"rendered":"Putting a note on the digital fridge."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October of 2012 I gave a talk at the CU Water Cooler Symposium in Nashville about the leadership lessons I draw on daily that I learned from my dozen years as an independent filmmaker.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0 none transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/25908341?html5ui\" width=\"608\" height=\"342\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\nI was really psyched about this presentation and when I came home from Nashville the ideas kept swirling around in my head. Between that October and the end of 2012 I started writing those ideas into a book I named after my talk:&nbsp;<em>Everything I Learned About Leadership I Learned From Filmmaking<\/em>. I put down the concepts I explored in my talk, plus a bunch more. I had a couple of incredibly productive writing months.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, as 2012 drew to a close I stopped adding to the book, and it sat abandoned. It\u2019s not like I didn\u2019t think about the book, quite the opposite I thought about it a lot, figured I\u2019d get back to it some day, but that day was never <em>today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2012 my career has progressed quite a bit and my leadership muscles have been stressed and tested and strengthened, and I think about those filmmaking lessons all the time. Recently, I began to feel that I need to revisit that book. Not at some vague time in the future \u201cwhen I have more time,\u201d but now, immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I brought the book up on my computer a couple of weeks ago, the first time in an embarrassingly long time, and re-watched the talk (above) and found myself making time in my schedule to expand on where I started. I put energy into the book for the first time in several years. It felt very very good.<\/p>\n<p>There is a concept I spoke about in my talk about putting a note on the fridge. When I used to make films there came a point where I knew I could continue to just talk about making a film, but if it was going to actually get made I needed to get serious. At that point, I would write a date on a note and stick it to the fridge. That date was the date when I would begin principal photography &#8211; when I would begin shooting my movie. And everything worked back from that date. I had to look at it every day, I would tell people the date &#8211; I couldn\u2019t escape it. I used my embarrassment of public failure and letting down those who believed in me as a way to get shit done.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C6B2CCC1-F58F-48CD-BFBA-ADCDB0DC1651-485x500.jpeg?resize=485%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C6B2CCC1-F58F-48CD-BFBA-ADCDB0DC1651.jpeg?resize=485%2C500&amp;ssl=1 485w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C6B2CCC1-F58F-48CD-BFBA-ADCDB0DC1651.jpeg?resize=768%2C791&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C6B2CCC1-F58F-48CD-BFBA-ADCDB0DC1651.jpeg?resize=994%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azaroff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/C6B2CCC1-F58F-48CD-BFBA-ADCDB0DC1651.jpeg?w=1791&amp;ssl=1 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><br \/>\nSo, here I am using my blog as an electronic fridge and publicly declaring that by the end of the year, I will have a first draft of my book done. More drafts will be needed, more notes on the fridge will be required for future milestones, and a whole lot of work lies in front of me, but I need an initial deadline to get a first draft completed. I am using you, anyone who is reading to hold me accountable for completing that first draft.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, I\u2019ll let you know how it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October of 2012 I gave a talk at the CU Water Cooler Symposium in Nashville about the leadership lessons I draw on daily that I learned from my dozen years as an independent filmmaker. ? 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