Category Archives: Change The World

May 09 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Leadership, success

The Most Productive Word…

is no.

That’s tough, though, when we want to, and at some point need to, say yes to email, text, people, friends, relationships, golf, twitter, and for some of you – The Kardashians. The need to be kept up with, right?

This is where noise comes in. Noise is the byproduct of giving into your wants at the inappropriate time. Noise is anything that robs your musical moments. Noise is out for itself, and ridiculously jealous of your music. Noise knows nothing of meaning or fulfillment.

Look at that…no is the first two letters of noise (just saw that….interesting).

Music, on the other hand, comes from doing what you have to do when you have to do it.

To give proper attention to the music we all long to make, we must say no to noise.

No song ever wrote itself.

No goal was ever obtained through occasional proper action.

So in a world that appears to have a million yes boxes to check off, where does one start?

Shrink.

Go small.

Have one box to check. Say no to the other 999,999 boxes.

Smaller worlds lead to bigger lives and even bigger music.

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May 08 2013
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Insight gained thus far in 2013…

  • There is only one label that helps us in our dealings with people: they’re human. Any other label has too many personal opinions and experience connected to it.
  • The place all of our businesses are headed has fewer and fewer rules.
  • Everyone dreams very different dreams.
  • A great question for each day we lead is, “Would I DVR today?”.
  • In most cases, scarcity is a fallacy.
  • 1st hardest thing to do: Start something. 2nd hardest thing to do: finish what you started.
  • The pain of technology is that it fights for every one of our moments.
  • Contribution is the holiest pre-party you can ever host.
  • This all matters.
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May 07 2013
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The Doors We Walk Through and The Joy Found On The Other Side Via Creating

We all walk through proverbial doors to get something or to go some place.

You had something to say. So you walked through the door to say it. Then you found the conversation, the ebb and flow of listen and response, to mean more than what you were so excited to share.

You needed caffeine. So you walked through the door to get it. All that to find that the sound and aroma of coffee brewing meant more than the caffeine fix itself.

You wanted a career. So you walked, diploma in hand, through a door to get one. Then you noticed it was the stories, both the good ones and not so good ones, that held the joy that defined a great career.

All too often we think it’s something that we can hold, touch, taste, and see that we’re after…it’s not that though.

We want experience that births fulfillment that blooms meaning.

And so we create.

We create conversation. We make a cup of coffee. We put the pen to paper and author a story.

For it is only by creating that we can cure, calm, and satisfy such wants and desires.

Alas, creating may be as cozy as one can get with joy.

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May 06 2013
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing, success

Fake Flowers

Have you ever had that moment when you realize that a flower you thought was fake is not fake?

You walk up, feel the coolness of the petals – rub your thumb over the rubbery orchid leaf, and in the touch the verdict is in…it’s real.

We do this with people. We do this with businesses. We do this with everything.

Customers do this with handshakes.

Web surfers do this with clicks.

You, your product, and/or service will be touched this week.

The greatest testimonial you may ever receive is the one when someone shared with another that you were real.

 

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May 02 2013
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Hands & Feet > Money

It’s a lot easier to put your money where you mouth is than it is to put your hands where your soul wants to go.

Money has no fear, but the guy connected to the hands tends to.

Rarely is the soft voice inside of you wrong or pushing you towards something that is not good.

It’s these deep things – those soul longings – that, truly, can only be rewarded by the action our skin and bones choose to take.

Our hands need to get better at saying “yes” to now and our feet need to run more red lights.

Vamonos.

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