On any given day how many silver bullets are you sold?
Thousands.
And they come in many forms: hamburgers, insurance, cars, movies, endless services, jewelry, Lap-Bands, and so on. All promises to make the frustrated you a more satisfied you.
Better question, what needs to be taken off of your plate?
The frustration remedy is more often than not more and more or less and less.
It takes instruments.
And it takes musicians to play those instruments.
Don’t fret about the stage.
It finds the music makers.
Here is this idea from three years ago…
Acknowledging fear.
Respecting freedom.
Learning from failure.
Or maybe the truly tough choice is in choosing the light in which you see these realities that are part of all that we experience.
We’re typically in the dark when we consider the fear, freedom, and failure we experience in our days.
Strike a match and burn three candles: acknowledgement, respect, and education.
Who doesn’t love a great story?
In 2010, I read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and was forever changed.
Finding the concept of story and living a life with meaning and purpose (like a story) was enough to take my life, relationships, and businesses to a whole new level. My wife and I even named our first child Story.
Moving on…
Grand stories are made up of small, easily over-looked stories. The call, the note, the joke, the stranger, the friend, the enemy, the meal, the travel, the action, the reaction, the response, and repetition of it all can be forgettable. The beat of life, relationships, and businesses goes and then and then and then and then…
And then there was today and then there will be tomorrow.
To create a life and a career that are out of the ordinary, we must continually create unforgettable moments and stories that normally would be missed or overlooked.
January 1st you’re asking ‘now what?’.
December 31st you’ll be asking ‘so what?’.
Success without fulfillment is failure. Anthony Robbins
Think about it.
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