Who could you call that is smarter than you? Call them.
What could you read to stretch your understanding? Read it.
As you expand you make more room to hold more of what we’re here to experience.
Ask.
Take notes.
Turn the page.
Flip the switch.
Keep going.
Expand.
The music needs its space.
We listen to the music, but we may just need a few lyrics.
We read books in hopes that just one line may speak to us.
We journal about the day to reflect on a moment.
Inches of enlightenment sprinkle across our miles.
That’s the pitch of everyone’s new idea for their industry or field of expertise.
This is beautiful. We live in a world where a team of people can redefine what a car ride is, and in doing so, it gets us all thinking about how we can do what we do better. As Leonardo da Vinci once said, “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Yes, one by one – simple car rides are beckoning us to simplify our systems, processes, and businesses.
Thank you Uber for getting us new lenses to see with.
Enjoy your weekend. Say a prayer for someone in need. Rest well. Monday is around the bend and we need you to be prepared to get us closer to what’s better.
And if you’re wondering how to get from point A to point B this weekend, click here. Enjoy.
I hit the road this week to begin the first national tour of sharing the message of Let The Music Play.
We’re going to call out our instruments, define our music, and align ourselves with lives, relationships, and businesses of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.
I hope we get to shake hands, swap ideas, and shed some light on the scene for one another.
Chicago, you’re first.
There are no jobs left.
The only thing that is left standing, or currently asking to be given legs, is the work of art that connects, leads, and changes us.
If one can’t quite put their thumb on that thing you are supposed to do in your field, industry, or line of work – that is good news. In that sense you’re not jobless. And therein lies the role of today’s working artist: take a client, customer, or the recipient of one’s art on a journey and move their thumbs on ‘it’…on enlightenment…on the answer…and even sometimes on the question(s) they didn’t know they should be asking.
It’s time for the proverbial car salesman to forget they don’t sell cars. This goes for all of us.
Or as Paul Valéry once said, “To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
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