Category Archives: Books

The Space

You have millions of spaces in your mind where you store all of the options that surround you.

There’s a space for hotels.

There’s a space for cars.

There’s a space for shoes.

There’s a space for insurance.

There’s a space for massage therapy.

There’s a space for a spa.

There’s even a space for a spa for your pet.

There’s a space for restaurants and then subspaces for a sushi restaurant, Italian restaurant, Paleo restaurant, etc.

There’s a space for anything that can be dreamed up and everything that is.

Are you what comes to mind when one thinks of that thing that you do, that market you serve, that service you provide, or a specific category of thoughts?

We tend to the think billboards, yellow pages, SEO, pay-per-click, and social media streams as the space where we must be, but we can’t continue to overlook this unseen and underestimated and underutilized space.

Own your space.

Become the expert for the space you should occupy.

The space is tight and the mind tends to not accept two when one will do.

Also, spaces of the mind that have vacancies can spot fake from a mile away. Be you. Be real. Be genuine. Say please. Write thank you. Care.

Crab > Krab

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What Draws Us

We are drawn those people and entities that offer:

Awareness – We follow those with a sensitivity to what has happened, what’s happening, and what’s going to happen.

Openness – We follow the learners and those that offer themselves to being teachable.

Belief – We follow those that are rooted in a core idea or belief and it appears that Faith has a twin sister named Persistence.

Collectively, your music must draw us into all three of these.

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Accelerate Serendepity

My favorite thought from last year was in an article on Tony Hsieh’s thoughts on ‘accelerating serendipity’.

The last thing we want from our days is for them to be consistently similar.

In the end, our lives and our businesses are ideas about ideas and more often than not our new ideas come to us when our paths have hints of randomness and serendipity.

Read the random book.

Shake hands with the stranger.

Take the long route to work.

Listen to the weird tunes.

This is how one accelerates serendipity.

And then you will…

See what you never saw and hear what you never heard.

 

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A Letter from 2014

Dearest Musician,

This is your time.

This is your canvas.

So gather your instruments, join your fellow musicians, and let your music play.

Know that you are a better teacher for yourself than any book will ever be. Listen to the mirror.

However, it’s not what you know that will fulfill you. It’s what you become when you do what you do and witnessing who that impacts that will fulfill you.

Keep a lookout for the unseen, untouched, and unloved people, places, and things. There is great opportunity in such discoveries.

And lastly, say no to karaoke and yes to something original.

Yours truly,

Two Thousand and Fourteen

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