Category Archives: Business

Jun 23 2014
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Awareness, Business, Leadership, success

I’m looking to buy a noun.

It happens sporadically throughout our days. We make a food purchase here, a hotel purchase there, and purchase an insurance policy every so often. All these places, things, ideas, and even people, we buy in the blink of an eye. But there’s a lot more going on in the blink that we typically give credit to.

This is a conversation about one’s preference.

So if you’re looking to be the preferred choice, are you an easy ‘no’ or an appealing ‘yes’?

Sales 101: You gain appeal with questions, not statements.

Jun 17 2014
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Speaking, success

Enter Today

It’s not yesterday. And it’s not tomorrow.

There are some handshakes approaching today. Be there. Be there with them. Lock hands, lock eyes.

There’s a hug you’re to give you in your story today. Give it well. Leave the recipient better than you found them.

Discover something new. Smile in reflection of the newness now known.

Tend your metaphorical gardens of life, relationships, and business. Till the field. Sow some seeds. Pray for rain. Harvest if something’s ripe.

Turn a stranger into a friend.

Breathe.

Laugh. Laugh hard.

See what the sun is touching. See all of it. There’s enough light to not just look, but also see.

And stop and listen to today.

Be still and quiet enough so that you may hear what today is trying to relay your way.

It’s alive. It’s with us. It’s here. It’s now.

Will you join all of the music that is unfolding around you today?

Music is 1% possibility and 99% participation.

Say yes.

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Jun 13 2014
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Hint(s)

You don’t need to look like something. You need to be something. The art of becoming eventually paints itself an identity.

Few things are as indicative of your future as who your friends are.

Dreams are previews.

Warm putter > Hot driver.

Look up.

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Jun 06 2014
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Work

There’s something about work that is central to what we do.

Only recently, has it become – right or wrong – a reflection of who we are. Careful with that. I’m afraid, no I’m happy, that was never the intention.

When you think work, think story. And when you think story, think plot.

There’s a couple of ways to define plot:

1) A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose: a garden plot.

2) To conceive and arrange the action and incidents of something.

Create a holy harmony of these two definitions and there you will have the definition of work. Also known as the intersection of where passion meets purpose and the formula for a good night’s sleep. Work is a purposeful garden.

Lastly, there’s a another way to approach the concept of work and that’s through the lens of the protagonist. Who is he? He’s the character in a story that knows what he wants and overcomes conflict to get it. He is the guy plotting his way towards a series of finish lines and victories that his muse has whispered.

It’s work being the protagonist isn’t it?

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May 29 2014
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Awareness, Books, Business, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing, success

Mid-Year Books and Summer Suggestions

If you’re looking for some reading this summer, here’s a few books I’ve read this year and would recommend. Enjoy.

On Looking

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Alexandria Horowitz gives us all an elbowing nudge as a reminder of what we look over, look around, miss, and miss out on. You’ll see what I mean when you read her words.

Moonwalking With Einstein

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You didn’t know there were such thing as mental athletes did you? This one takes some time and focus, but it’s a lovely peek into how our memory works (or how much we think we know at this time about the plumbing of the mind).

The Wisdom of Insecurity 

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Here’s the CliffsNotes: Anxiety is too much future in your presence and guilt and shame is too much past in your presence. Now > Then and There.

The Everything Store

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A very interesting look behind the walls of a relentless company and relentless man, Jeff Bezos. They leave an empty seat in every corporate meeting as symbol of the customer being in the meeting and having a say. Love that.

Leonard da Vinci: Flights of the Mind

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I left this book with two thoughts: 1) Genius is much more organic than we’ve been told and sold that it is. 2) Art is a three-way fight between man, mind, and soul.

The Innovator’s Dilemma

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From here on out, here’s the winning business model: Where there’s peace, disturb it.

Memos from the Chairman

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I’ll read this again and again. It’s hilarious and drills home the appreciation of the dollar, paper clips, and turning off the lights when you leave a room.

Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Brilliance

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This book has probably moved into my top 20 list and is the perfect read for anyone that is about to graduate from school, looking to start something, take a chance, or go after a dream.

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