You are a musician.
The music your life is capable is astounding.
It’s a choice.
It’s a choice worth making.
We need you, your conscience, your passions, your talents, and your gifts. Collectively, they are your music and your dent in the world.
If no one has ever told you anything like this, print this out and put it in your pocket.
#LTMP
The Wright Brother’s story of flight is awesome, entrepreneurial,
inspiring, and heroic. We all know they tried and tried and
tried…and finally created liftoff.
But did you know they actually started out manufacturing bicycles
before they made and thought about their aircraft? That’s right. A
dream to pedal more efficiently to the local super-market created a
dream that eventually got us to the moon.
Quick thoughts:
Don’t pedal so fast you miss your dream in the clouds.
If you’re bored on your Monday bicycle then find a way to put some wings on it.
Achieved dreams lead to other dreams.
Raise the vail…
Connect our dots…
Give us a metaphor…
Shine light on what’s dark…
Provide focus to what’s blurry…
Piece together the edges of our puzzles…
We follow and remember those that saw and got us to see.
Starbucks wins everyday with one great question – What can I get started for you today?
Sure that’s similar to “how do you like your coffee”, but that question only has two answers (regular or decaf). On the other hand, the question that Starbucks proposes has hundreds of thousands of options.
When is the last time you asked a customer what you could start for them today?
How often do you ask a customer his/her preference with things like phone calls, texts, email, surveys, tweets, etc.?
You don’t have to be a barista to see that even with something as simple as coffee you and your customer probably have varying definitions of why you’re connecting to do business.
Ask. Then cater to the response.
Your fancy cappuccino machine means nothing to a guy looking for a latte.
Gradually we pursue something.
Suddenly we’re asking ourselves how we got here.
Average steps gradually lead to an average life.
Scary, brave, interesting, and challenging steps gradually lead to the life we’ve always dreamed of.
Side by side and day by day it’s hard to distinguish the difference between average steps and the challenging steps. The only difference is when you suddenly see how different the places they take you are.
All things arrive to us gradually, but suddenly they’re noticed.
May we be the people that see what’s gradually happening around and in us. For this is the horizon of our hope.
Ashton.Gustafson 