What is success and how do you get to it?
Answering that is like trying to find the algorithm for the perfect song and the perfect song writing process. Neither can be globally true.
A few thoughts here…
…Lucky is the man in pursuit of something he can’t quite explain.
…Success is the result of soul getting a voice in your algorithms.
…Think more and more about poetry and music and less and less about arithmetic.
It’s the difference between knowing the ocean is blue and having swum the waters of Capri.
It appears that both the wholeness and holiness of our lives is found in the gap that is jumped from knowledge to experience.
What if our lives longed to live in that gap? What if our businesses bridged that gap? What if our churches embraced that gap? What if our parenting parented that gap?
They can. They all can in a moments notice.
That moment is here. That moment is today.
Provide the gateway to experience for someone and you will have done two things:
1) Blessed them with a memory. Which may be the only thing we can take with us.
2) Given them a chance to see the world in a new light. Now they can see where change is necessary.
He often gets a bad rap, but don’t forget that vanilla is still king.
If you’re an attorney, your vanilla is legal advice.
If you’re a Realtor, your vanilla is homes and helping people buy and sell them.
If you’re a doctor, your vanilla is the health of people.
Most people come to you for that scoop of vanilla.
If you’re going to offer bells and whistles your best bet is probably to offer them through a variety of toppings and not by changing the flavor of the dish they came for.
Is there anything worse than hearing, “I’m sorry – we’re out of vanilla.”?
So you failed?? With a slight change re-do it. That’s called betterment.
You broke it? Repair it. That’s mending.
You found it broken? Repair it. That’s remedying.
Rewrite.
Replay.
Re-think yesterday and then re-start today.
Reboot.
Recall what it was like to be in their shoes.
We remember those that did and failed, and did and failed, and failed, and failed, and did and re________’d things.
It’s not a question of will you need to re________ something, but how often will you have to and are you willing to re________ it?
The one and done’s are nowhere to be found and your dream is just on the other side the re_______ing of something.
Alas, failure is the romance of success.
Ashton.Gustafson 