Apart from my email address and my website, these are the only words on my business card.

Many believe they are looking for something “off the peg” – What can you give me?

It’s the wrong place to look.  The answer is already inside you; the question simply offers an opportunity to speak it out.

Coming from within an infinite game,* the  question invites you to be more who you are and do more of what you must do.  You are embraced as a player, no longer an observer, your greater curiosity leading you deeper into the game – the aim of which is not to win but to play, and to play for as long as possible.

When you play, you give others permission to play, to identify their art, because it’s about being free to do what they want, rather than repeating what you do.**  Hugh Macleod offers:

‘The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far
more people than the actual content ever will.  How your
own sovereignty inspires other people to find their own
sovereignty, their own sense of freedom and possibility,
will give the work far more power than the work’s objective
merits ever will.”

The infinite game is an attitude, as much as anything else.  It’s baffling by how two people can exist in the same environment, and one can grow and develop their art whilst the other continues in the same old same old, until we understand it’s a way of seeing and playing life, answering the question: What do you want?

Then asking it of others.

(*James Carse’s book Infinite and Finite Games identifies the game as another way to framing the exploration of being Human – others are infinite stories and infinite businesses.)
(**It has been noted, when Humans have autonomy, develop skills, and live for a purpose greater than themselves, they flourish.)