Let's look now at the final tip for Visionary leaders, and that is, find yourself a sandbox.
Somewhere that you can play and fly your Visionary freak flag. Why is this? So important because otherwise you're going to go crazy. If you don't do this. You're going to lose patience with implementing the other tips that I've given you because there's discipline in there, which feels constricting. And you'll need to find somewhere where there are really very few constraints where you can color outside the lines, which is what visionaries love to do.
Now, this needs to be something that's not related to your business or your organization. Something else, it might be a project outside of work, a person. It should be, you know, something that you feel strongly about a cause. Or a passion. Lemme give you some real world examples. I pulled some of the folks that I've worked with over the last year or so, and here's some of the things that came out more than one Visionary leader. This seems to be something that correlates with being a Visionary. Really enjoyed participating. Most of them with other people in Semit Extreme, in some cases, even extreme sports events. You know, the sort of thing that you're not going to catch me doing, involving heights and things like that.
One leader that whose work I got to know really, really well. Is that her world is in textile arts. That's where she flies her freak flag. Makes beautiful Batik just really, really gorgeous work. Fantasy sports League management was another one. Podcasting, YouTubing about lacrosse. Okay. What I would call maniacally experimental home brewing. With somebody else's. I have benefited from, benefit is maybe not the right word. I have consumed some of that. Home gardening was another one, so it doesn't really matter. These are just some examples.
The important thing is that you find yours, maybe something that you're already doing, that you're already engaged in, that becomes your Visionary sandbox, and maybe something that you know, you've been messing around with for a while, and now is a good time to reactivate it. Or accelerate it or invest a little bit more in it. Whatever it is, think about what it can be for you. Now, work out where your sandbox going to be, because trust me, if you don't have a sandbox, you're going to get very frustrated with implementing some of the other things that are recommended, and without that sandbox, what you'll end up doing is essentially inventing a sandbox within your organization, and that's going to undermine. What you're trying to establish elsewhere. So get out there, find your sandbox, and fly your Visionary freak flag.