TRAVEL, FLOSS REGULARLY, WIN THE HEISMAN
Jump to the text ↓Things I’d do if the good Lord above gave me a fresh start:
- Be the first one in the office for at least the first two years of my career
- Pay attention in art history class
- Take photography classes
- Travel every chance I got
- Keep a journal
- Spend 10 years as an art director, then decide if I wanted to be a creative director
- Once every four years, offer to work for free at a place I admire for a month or so
- Find a good place, and a good way, to teach
- Take classes to keep on top of technology
- Speak softer when trying to make a point
- Wouldn’t think my superiors knew less than me
- Constantly interview young people and hire the ones I like (even if it was hard to find something for them to do)
- Hire a nutritionist instead of a personal trainer
- Accept defeat and rejection as a part of life
- Lose more graciously
- Floss regularly
- Start golfing earlier than 30
- Come up with a better name than Perich Advertising and Design
- Have less of an ego so that #18 would really be true
- Write more thank you notes to clients, staff members and vendors
- Confront tough issues way sooner
- Buy a building instead of renting for 18 years
- Buy 100 of the same sketch books and save every one of them on a special shelf I’d have Norm Abrams build for me
- Insist that all of our office space be on one floor
- Try my darnedest to focus on people’s strengths instead of their weaknesses
- Listen to more music and watch more movies
- Draw more
- Win the Heisman
- Try and perfect my grammar and expand my vocabulary
- Perfect my conjugation of the verb, “to go”
- Address more people more often by their first names
- Take one of those classes on how to remember people’s names
- Keep my mouth shut about food so as not to ruin everyone else’s meal
- Have the smallest office in the company
- Spend more time walking around and talking to employees
- Stick to beer at the company Christmas parties and golf outings
- Realize there’s always time to do something about the things I regret not doing