Most of the time it’s us…drawing the lines that supposedly can’t be crossed, building the boxes we say can’t be escaped, and sharing the words that cut the cords to possibility.
A massive leap towards success happens when you gain the awareness of the dialogue, right or wrong, that is happening with yourself hundreds of thousands of times a day.
Personal Responsibility > The Blame Game.
When availability of data explodes and information overload becomes the norm, it is insight that we need and long for.
That time has come.
Don’t tell us what you’ve read…tell us what you’re seeing between the lines.
Don’t tell us what you’ve heard…share with us the beat, the tempo, and the rhymes of the song that is ringing in your ears.
Don’t tell us what the guy in the cubicle next to you found…share with us the feeling you’ve found in your gut.
Leadership in the days ahead will belong to the onion peelers, the sheet puller backers, and the insight pirates of the information ocean(s).
Ahoy.
Where can I contribute?
Am I contributing?
Did I contribute?
Everyone asks question #3 in the end.
Don’t forget to be asking questions #1 and #2 in the beginning and the middle.
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…
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.
Ashton.Gustafson 