Bottle it up

We had a great meeting with a potential client this week. The kind of meeting you feel like you could sit at for hours and just soak in the passion and knowledge of the business owners and staff. It’s a Natural foods company, which felt familiar and a bit nostalgic for me. Prior to coming to work at TIV I worked at Traditional Medicinals, the herbal medicinal tea company, for 8.5+ years.The meeting this week felt like my first couple of years at Traditionals – where you are honored to be in the room with the participants and you feel like at every exchange you walk away with new knowledge, new things to try and the hope that you can make some small changes that will make you a healthier person whose choices can affect change in the world.It was inspiring. And I find myself now trying to figure out how to bottle that feeling. How can I instill that excitement and energy that I’m still buzzing with in all of my work? Is that even possible? Or do you have to save that feeling for the occasional instance otherwise it’s just the norm?The beauty of working at an agency is that you work with so many clients in such diverse fields that I feel like I am learning at every stage. So that’s pretty exciting. The other thing is ultimately our clients choose us but we also choose our clients – we know who we will have good chemistry with, who we will work well with, who will teach us but also learn from us – that’s pretty empowering.I’ve said it a million times in the past couple of months – I’ve really got a pretty awesome gig – but, I still find myself trying to dissect this feeling, this buzz and stuff it somewhere to keep for those tasks that are a little hard to motivate for. I haven’t figured out the secret yet, so if anyone has any leads on bottling facilities that you think can help me – please pass the contact info over ASAP.-Blythe Carrillo