Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence, and Simplify Your Life by Joel Zaslofsky

Author:Joel Zaslofsky [Zaslofsky, Joel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780991297306
Publisher: Personal Renaissance Press
Published: 2014-01-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9: “A” #2 is for Access

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. – John O’Donohue

Gentlemen and Gentlewomen: Use Your Engines!

What do a car without keys, a nail without a hammer, an alarm system without electricity, and a box without an opening have in common? They are important tools with no way to use them. And that leads to the fundamental law of access, the second “A” in FAOCAS: a tool is only as good as your ability to use it.

It doesn’t matter how awesomely you filter, archive, organize, and contextualize if you can’t access your curating currency when, where, and how you need to. That means you should always have the keys, hammer, juice, and opener for your Experience Curating system. Don’t worry, though. Access is easy if you obey the “Everywhere Doctrine.” This simple principle has only two rules:

1. Be able to take your experiences anywhere there’s electricity.

2. Let your experiences exist in multiple places at the same time.

Let’s do a quick experiment. Think about some of the things you need instantly during the day that you take for granted. Stuff like a calendar with all your commitments, the ability to call or text someone, or cash from an ATM. You might not know exactly when you’ll need them, but you’ll want access, pronto, when the time comes. So here’s the question: why wouldn’t you treat your most meaningful experiences the same way?

We’re all tired of having to say, “I left ‘it’ at home, work, in my car, or in my leaky brain.” But you’ll always have the combination to the safe with the Everywhere Doctrine. And back on October 2, 2014 – two hours before the first-ever SimpleREV event, perhaps the biggest conference of my life – I really needed the combination to the safe.

It was 5:00 p.m. and I was walking through the howling wind, pouring rain, and 40 degree weather in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. With my out-of-town conference co-organizer, Dan, and his wife, Vanessa, following my lead, we hustled to the weekly Farmer’s Market in the heart of downtown. I figured we could grab some dinner from one of the market vendors, happily enjoy our Paleo-friendly meal inside a warm building, and have plenty of time to beat the twenty-five conference participants due to show up in two hours at a nearby coffee shop. I was the local, so you’d think I knew what I was doing, right? Bad assumption.

There was no dinner in sight, unless we wanted to eat handfuls of raw broccoli and wash it down with rain from the sky. With my friends dreaming about 90 degrees and sunny back home in San Antonio, I was a cold man on a hot seat. So I reached into my pocket and pulled out my smartphone.

Within fifteen seconds, I had my “Reviews” spreadsheet open and the “Restaurants” tab up. I turned on the filter feature, selected restaurants I had already eaten at,

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