Founder's Flow: The Art of Wandering

Hey there,

The Fine Line of Wandering vs Being Lost

I commonly see a bumper sticker in the mountains that reads "Get Lost." It always strikes me how negative those two words have become.

We have built a culture terrified of being lost. Everything is measured. Everything is tagged. We always know exactly where we are, where our people are, where our phones are. And somewhere in all that triangulation, we lost the skill to simply wander.

Here is my POV on the art of wandering: being lost and wandering take the same effort. Being lost implies something is wrong. Wandering gives space for something to go right. Same landscape. Different intention.

Almost nothing that has mattered in my life was on a roadmap. FluidStance was not a spreadsheet exercise. The Mountain Games was not a strategic plan. The relationships I lean on hardest were not planned. They wandered in.

But wandering all day blows up your life. So there is a ratio to this. A way to protect your commitments and still leave room for the unplanned to find you.

I wrote about that ratio in my founder's blog, and why your least optimized hours might be your most productive.

Read the full essay >> https://fluidstance.com/blogs/news/the-fine-line-between-wandering-and-being-lost

I was not lost. I was wandering.

Keep moving,

Joe
Founder, FluidStance

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