Monthly Archives: September 2012

Pick Your Side

On this side of fear it tells you:

  • It’s going to be complicated.
  • It’s not worth it.
  • It didn’t work last time.

On this side of fear it asks:

  • Who cares?
  • Are you serious?
  • What will people say?

On the other side of fear you see:

  • The award.
  • The joy in the complication.
  • 99 fails = 1 success.

On the other side of fear people say:

  • We care.
  • He/she was serious.
  • Wow.

Pick your side.

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What’s Your Sport?

What’s your sport?

Sales? Web-design? Marketing? The culinary arts? Book writing? Song writing? Leadership?

Take a minute to step back and look at your career or areas of life where you want success and think of them in terms of being a sport.

If you look at those around you who are having success, and you allow yourself to see them as athletes, it’s easy to see why they’re winning.

Dream. Train. Prepare. Execute. Measure. Repeat.

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Compose.

Profits are synonymous with music. They’re a byproduct of doing the right things over and over and over again.

Love is synonymous with music. It can’t be pinpointed to just one thing. It’s patient, it’s kind, it’s forgiving, it doesn’t want what it doesn’t have, it doesn’t strut, it keeps going in the end, and more.

Success is synonymous with music. It’s the byproduct of the right strategy, taken with the right measures, at the right time.

The same goes for raising a child, living your life, and, really – anything that is worth doing. Not only can it be musical, it is meant to be musical.

And here’s the thing – your road to music and your instruments may differ from mine. After all, there’s dancing at both the nightclub and the honky-tonk, right?

Chances are that “thing” you’re seeking after is some metaphorical form of music –  you just may have never heard it put this way.

Greatness in all aspects of life takes on some form of composition.

So where does one go from here?

Compose.

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