{"id":64,"date":"2024-10-16T05:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T05:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:11:41","slug":"your-best-work-is-beyond-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/your-best-work-is-beyond-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Best Work Is Beyond Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your Best Work Is Beyond Influence<\/p>\n<p>Watch this:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H9NruIjkGEw\">Roger W. Smith \u2013 Watchmaker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roger Smith is a watchmaker who lives in the Isle of Man, Scotland. He doesn\u2019t just make watches; he makes works of art. He does it because he enjoys making beautiful watches created from his imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I like what he says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe influences just aren\u2019t around, and I can just get on with my days work and just make what I want to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Influence can be powerful when it broadens our understanding and helps us think beyond our current perspective. However, it can be a distraction and lead you away from the work that you love.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my favorite things are hearing how others approach business, and the second is hearing what people enjoy in life.<\/p>\n<p>Doing this broadens my mind beyond my current level of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Learning and being influenced is a wonderful thing; just don\u2019t do it too much. Leave some room for your core ideas of what you want to create in your business and life.<\/p>\n<p>If you do so, I believe you will enjoy the journey much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Smith is a watchmaker who lives in the Isle of Man, Scotland. He doesn\u2019t just make watches; he makes works of art. He does it because he enjoys making beautiful watches created from his imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-beaux-pilgrim","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iablueprint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}