Monthly Archives: August 2012

Aug 17 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

Reinvention

“Why reinvent the wheel?”

That’s a dangerous question that typically leads to nothing, no growth, and no action.

Sure you can’t reinvent the wheel, but you can reinvent how it intersects our world and culture.

Homes will always need to be sold, but ways for that transaction to transpire will always need to be reinvented.

Communication will always be needed, but reinvent the means of communicating. (Pony Express, Postal Service, Phone, Email, Text, Twitter – what’s next?)

You can’t reinvent the concept of a hotel, but you can reinvent what an overnight stay looks like.

Travel will always need to happen, but please reinvent the way your wheel gets you traveling.

Ask yourself this daily, “if I was starting my business today what would I do/create that didn’t do when I did start my business _______ years ago? – AND, what would I do away with that I did do 10 years ago when I started my business?”

Whatever that answer is will be how you should reinvent yourself today and everyday.

Just don’t convince yourself that your wheel is as perfect as you think it is.

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Aug 16 2012
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Business, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

Today’s Laws of Communication

If you can avoid the text and make the call do so.

If you can avoid the call and discuss in person do so.

If you can avoid the email and handwrite the note do so.

Your effectiveness and efficiency increases at the same rate your handshakes, eye to eye contacts, and note writing does.

You can’t be spammed – only your technology can be.

Across all lines of communication Human > Digital.

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Aug 15 2012
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Dreams to paper to pockets to realization. 2 Daily Actions That Have Changed My Life.

75 days ago my life changed.

I wrote down my Definite Chief Aim as Napoleon Hill encourages us to do.

Meaningful Specific > Wandering Generality.

I now read this allowed twice a day and carry it with me wherever I go.

I also met a guy named Grant Cardone who encouraged me to write out my goals and dreams twice a day at morning and night. It should be noted he encouraged me to write them in the present – as if they had already happened. This is action is full of power.

In the last 75 days I’ve seen more focus, more productivity, more fulfillment than I ever thought possible. Across all lines – family, life, business – everything has become richer and grown deeper roots.

When the dream leaves your mind and hits the paper it becomes physical. You no longer have to picture it – you can actually see it.

Now I’m finally getting clarity on where this train is headed.

I hope these steps can help you in the same way.

Godspeed in your music making.

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Aug 14 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Leadership Does…

There’s a great leadership scene in the movie Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams, (the teacher/leader), gets up on his classroom desk and says, “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”

Leadership takes its followers on a journey.

Leadership does not allow its followers thoughts and actions to remain idle.

Leadership doesn’t just like change – leadership creates and paves the way for change.

Leadership longs for its followers to experience discovery.

Leadership gets its fix on getting its followers from point a to point z.

Leadership provides the paint and canvas.

Leadership gives away the musical instruments, provides the music lessons, and then goes and find a stage for the follower to perform.

True leadership has its full focus on the followers and the movement they can co-create together.

 

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Aug 13 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

Further and Further

Now, more than ever, success is going to require that you get further and further from the pack,

further and further out of the box,

further and further from standard operating procedures,

and further and further from limited thinkers and dreamers.

The rat race is noisiest and most crowded place on earth. The problem is you don’t notice the noise or the mass competition of the race when you’re there. The rat race will convince you that “this is just how things are.”

Did Usain Bolt race this past week or just do his thing?

Was Apple ever in a race to creat the first cell phone?

Wherever you’re looking to go or whatever music you’re trying to create think the opposite of rat race.

From here on out, it will only be the outliers that move further and further from all things normal and average that will succeed on massive levels.

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