Need encouragement to do your thing?
We found plenty last summer at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The ING bank had bannered the sky bridges with that well-known ‘do your thing” phrase pointed in many directions.
This one, especially, spoke to me.
Dreamers, do your thing.
But there was encouragement for everyone:
Sisters, do your thing
Timezone hoppers, do your thing
Wavemakers, do your thing
Innovators, do your thing
Free spirits, do your thing
Pioneers, do your thing
Soulmates, do your thing
Superheros, do your thing
Instagrammers, do your thing
Deep thinkers, do your thing
Techies, do your thing
Movers and shakers, do your thing
Trendsetters, bucketlisters: the call to “do your thing” whatever that might be went on and on, sky bridge by sky bridge. As a group, they speak to how much humanity needs the fresh ideas of each individual.
With the help of photoshop I would add one more banner, for those of us toiling away at our desks and drawing tables:
Storymakers, do your thing. That’s part of the storymaker’s job description: figure out what it is that you have to say and shape it into a story. Happy creating!
Ann Dalton
Bonny Becker
Julie Paschkis
Julie Larios
laurakvasnosky
Margaret Chodos-Irvine
Books Around The Table 
So important. Many of us can’t do our own thing because of some form of criticism from the young age and lack of encouragement to be ourselves.
I like Dolly Parton’s take on it: something like, figure out who you are and do that 100 percent.