1) What are you saying to the world?
2) What is the world saying back to you?
To answer these two questions, we must realize two truths:
1) To answer these questions will require awareness and vulnerability.
2) Every day is an art show.
A brick to be laid…tomorrow it’s a wall.
A dollar to save…tomorrow it’s wealth.
A idea to be learned…tomorrow it’s wisdom.
What small joy will you give up and what small pain will you take on today for massive joy tomorrow?
I’m glad I did > I wish I had.
Write about it.
Put a stamp on it.
Mail it.
Call on it.
Shake on it.
Just because the technology is old doesn’t make it useless.
Something unique happens when you name those things, feelings, thoughts, or ideas that you’re in pursuit of or that haunt you.
For instance, Steven Pressfield calls that nagging voice of distraction and disbelief the “resistance”. Now that you have a name for it and that name discloses what it does, you can now call it out push back against it.
For purposes of this blog, we’ve named the success we are all after as “our music.” By giving success the name music, we’ve opened the idea that success could be a timely collection of multiple factors that occur simultaneously. So we must gather instruments and insure they’re making music and not noise.
In creating names for these ideas and unseen realities, two things happen:
1) For the good things you’re after, now you and your tribe have something to point at.
2) For those things that haunt you, now you can call them out, silence them, and mute their plea. Caution: they hate being named.
False.
There’s an abundance of whatever you’re looking for.
Where things get scarce is with those who are willing to sacrifice the time, energy, and effort to draw and walk the maps to find the abundance of such things mentioned above.
The market will never take the blame – so we must.
If you’re thinking there’s not enough _________ in your world, perhaps the market is simply rewarding you with what you’ve been giving it?
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