Monthly Archives: June 2012

Jun 22 2012
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Creativity, Imagination, Let The Music Play

Success Defined (Pinpointed)

 “The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus … By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.”  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Making music, for purposes of this blog, is a metaphor for success. It is great news that music can’t be defined. No one, wants someone outside of them defining what success looks like for them. But it can be pinpointed.

Something inside of us is stirred when communication, instrumentation, rhythmic togetherness, originality, improvisation, passionate energy, and a message of hope connects and combines simultaneously.

Success, Letting The (your) Music Play, is that stir that I speak of.

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Jun 21 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination

Atrophy

Atrophy: A wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is a decrease in muscle mass, often due to extended immobility.

Planes diminish in the hanger.

Ships peter out in the harbor.

Use what you’ve got. Fly. Sail.

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Jun 20 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership

Never.

Never lose your sense of wonderment.

Never trade great for good enough.

Never overlook the good.

Never look around the bad.

Never pass on the chance to make someone’s day.

Hard as it may be, never fail to finish that thought, that dream, that idea, or that song.

Nevermind is the #1 cause of all dream deaths.

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Jun 19 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination

The Busy Badge

If there is a social badge we’ve adopted in nearly every circle, it’s the badge of busy-ness.

We tell our wives how busy we are. We tell our church group. We tell our confidants. We tell strangers at cocktail parties.

Newsflash – this is how it should be. We should all be doing, creating, learning, serving, and finding. Efficiently.

The problem arrives when we flash our badge of busy-ness to create to the illusion we’re being efficient.

Busy lives are dim.

Efficient lives shine.

Trading busy-ness for efficiency is going to require trading what you like to do for what you should be doing.

Make the trade.

Efficiency gets us closer to fulfillment. Fulfillment of goals and fulfilment of dreams. I think that’s what we’re all after…at least I am.

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Jun 18 2012
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Business, Change The World, Discipline, Focus

Skyscraping

If you’re going to be building a skyscraper career, be sure that you obsess over the foundation.

We applaud those that scrape the sky, but it’s the foundation that makes the scraping of the heavens possible.

The only way you will be able to go 100 floors high is if you are well founded 10 floors deep.

And don’t become jaded by others that are skyscraping in their careers. Stay with your foundation. Pour it and build it pillar by pillar. Live there for weeks, months, or years if you have to.

The most important part of your skyscraper will not be what is seen but what is unseen.

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