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Oct 22 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing, Music, success

Separation

Separate yourself.

Don’t be locked into what your industry and the world has labeled you.

You’re more than a mom. You’re more than an artist. You’re more than a Realtor. You’re more than a coach. You’re more than a teacher. You’re more than a chef. You’re more than what your label infers.

If you were going make music for a living (a good living) would you simply take the music that has already been written and perform that?

No. You would pour yourself into YOUR music. It would keep you awake at night thinking about how to create, write, and bring to market the new. That’s what you would dream of performing. You would feel like that is why you are here…to bring about something new.

Separate yourself, because like it or not the world will know you by your music and block you by your noise.

Commodities = Noise. As you separate from the noise of commoditization there you will find an opportunity to make music and a crowd eager to hear what you’ve got say and play.

Let’s beat the dead horse. Success requires separation.

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Oct 19 2012
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Business, Leadership, Marketing

Cliffs Notes For Any Great Sales Book

  • The market buys when they are ready to buy – not when you are ready to sell…and they tend to buy from their friends (or those that have been friendly).
  • Think in terms of clients not customers. (A shift happens and you turn pro).
  • Your business is relationships.
  • Care.
  • The Golden Rule is your mantra.
  • It’s not about you.

 

Oct 18 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, success

You Shall Have The Power

You don’t have to know a lot of things or do a lot of things to be successful.

Emerson once wrote, “The law of nature is, DO the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”

Want to be successful? Hang around someone who embodies your definition of success and do what they do.

The problem is we’re looking for hidden codes when success has already left the clues we’re looking for.

Think bigger. Act smaller.

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Oct 17 2012
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Business, success

Adversity

No one told us in college that adversity was going to happen.

Yet, everyone that we look to that has done something to change the world had to overcome adversity at some point.

Typically, when adversity strikes, the easy thing to do is fold the cards in disbelief of how something went down, how we were treated, or claim “the game” is not fair.

We’ve been sold the following: study, pass, build resume, interview, get the job, climb the ladder, and retire. Academia just can’t fit adversity between study and retirement.

What if we bought into adversity? What if we accepted it, called it out. and obsessed daily on getting to the other side of it.

The other side of adversity is where you’re fulfillment lies…hard to swallow, I know, but please power through.

 

 

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Oct 16 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Leadership, success

Growth Must Be A Goal

You’re either growing or being passed by.

Study.

Study often.

Read.

Re-read.

Learn.

Learn again.

Stretch.

Be stretched.

While you’re here always think about going there (a place of growth). Champions are “here” equipped while being “there” conscious.

Someone is currently thinking about how to do what you currently do better…and chances are they’re on to something.

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