Category Archives: Business

Nov 20 2013
Leave a comment
Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Paying Homage

Think of those things you honor and respect.

These could be people, ideas, principles, relationships, values, hobbies, etc.

When we daily pay homage to these things, we get in return a form of mutual respect.

The instrument(s) we play, or long to play, will respect our respect of the time involved to get to know them and their ways.

However, you can only appropriately pay homage to a few things well.

Example: If you want your life’s music to be about Generosity, then sit with her often. Ask her to show you her ways. Honor her and respect her history of success. Ask her to lead you into your experiences. Learn the threads that weave the warmth in her blanket over mankind. Eventually, Generosity will take notice of your time and studious approach and you will be leading a generous life.

In other words, where does a pianist sit? With his piano.

Whatever you choose to honor daily, choose with the hope and aim of music in the end. This will help you decipher between honoring and respecting something that leads to noise and something that will eventually lead to music.

Mutual respect and honor between musicians and their instruments just may be the holy formula of symphony.

Tagged , , , , , , ,
Nov 12 2013
2 Comments
Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Who Says?

Who says your name is just Teacher?

What if today you changed it to World Changer?

Who says your name is just Mom?

What if today you changed it World Changer?

Who says your name is just what’s on your card, door, desk, badge, or name tag?

What if today you changed it to World Changer?

And what if, not only did you believe this, but you lived this out? Day to day. Hour to hour. Moment to moment.

You are not just the mediums you live, move, participate, and exist in.

Rather, you are the meaning carried and transmitted within in these mediums.

Blame Picasso, not the paint.

Blame Mozart, not the violin.

Blame Jobs, not the computer.

Blame Lincoln, not the White House.

Blame Spielberg, not the camera.

Blame Wynn, not blackjack.

Blame Jordan, not basketball.

Blame Zuckerberg, not the Internet.

What if we all repeated this exercise tomorrow?

I say we do.

Then we’ll get to blame you for a better world.

 

Tagged , , , , ,
Nov 09 2013
Leave a comment
Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music, success

The Orchestrator Holds Awareness

Leaders are orchestrators. They gather instruments and musicians and write, compose, arrange, and bring together the music at large.

But closer than the pen they hold to write their music, they hold awareness.

Awareness about what has happened.

Awareness about what is happening.

Awareness about what needs to happen.

Awareness about what is going to happen.

If your life or business doesn’t feel like an orchestra, pause and find what’s missing or what has been missed. Become aware.

The more we learn about leadership, education, health, disease, peace, and hope the more see it’s layered in awareness.

When we’re aware we can see. When we can see we can create. When we create we can make change. When we’re different today than we were yesterday, we’re fulfilled.

Nov 07 2013
Leave a comment
Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

The Writing On Our Days

Stephen King writes in his book On Writing that “you must not come lightly to the blank page.”

I think the same can be said of our days.

Each morning is a blank page and it is our duty and responsibility to take the pen and adamantly author meaning, experience, and purpose for our lives.

The page is always there and a pen is always available.

Are you?

Tagged ,
Nov 06 2013
1 Comment
Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Music, success

Giving Yourself To Your Music

Music takes work.

Music takes time.

Music takes romance with an instrument or instruments.

Music doesn’t just happen.

Music can’t comprehend coincidence.

Music takes action. Without it there is no music.

Music doesn’t pray for luck, but she will accept happenstance when it arrives.

Music needs hands, feet, and a voice. Yours preferably.

Something constantly pulls at us trying to convince us that we want fluffy pillows, fancy food, shiny cars, more clothes, bling, and Twitter fame. Yet we’ve never framed one of their receipts or posts have we?

What we truly want from life, if we were to peel it back to the core, is everything that it takes and everything that is needed to make our music.

Ask of your life what it needs for its music to be made and you will have no lack of gain.

Question for the day…”What does my music need?”

Goal for the day…give yourself to that need.

 

Tagged , , , , , , , ,
← Older posts
Newer posts →