A few months ago I received an email from the editor of The Conference Board Review inviting me to submit an article for the next issue.

The Conference Board Review is the quarterly magazine of The Conference Board, the world’s preeminent business membership and research organization. Founded in 1976, TCB Review is a magazine of ideas and opinion that raises tough questions about leading-edge issues at the intersection of business and society.

And not just for the online version, but to appear in the actual magazine.

I often go back and read stuff I wrote days, months, even years ago and it never ceases to surprise me. I read the TCB article online (no longer available) and that was cool, but today the magazine came and I read it again. The thrill of seeing something I wrote in a slick magazine like TCB Review was great, but when I reread it I was blown away.

Not because someone else says something, but because revisiting, but because something we did a week or a month or longer in the past and we see it from the outside—and we are blown away.

We look at it and marvel; the quality and execution impresses; the inherent value surprises; and we revel in the fact that it is our creation.

It doesn’t matter what it is, big or small; whether it was produced at work or elsewhere; it doesn’t even matter if anyone else will ever see it.

We look and we are amazed.

I hope you will take time to read it and come back and comment.

One more thing, just for the thrill of it, review things you did in the past and I’ll bet some of them will blow you away, too.

Image credit: The Conference Board

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