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Dec 21 2012
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Change The World, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Stephen R. Covey’s Definition of LTMP

In The 8th Habit, Stephen R. Covey’s encore book to The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he says “When you engage in work that taps your talent and fuels your passion – that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscious to meet – therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul’s code.”

  • You’ve been specifically wired. Plug in.
  • Something stirs in you. Expose that.
  • There’s need here. Fulfill it.
  • And then there is that small, green-light voice..the one that assures…the one that prompts. Lend it an ear.

This my friends is the formula to the music you are longing to make and we are eagerly awaiting to hear.

Let her rip.

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Dec 20 2012
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Business, Change The World, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

A Compass Called “Better”

The hope is that you, your widget, your idea, and your purpose gets better each day.

For some, 365 days of better gets them to being the best.

For others it’s 10,000 hours of better that gets them to being the best.

If you’re goal is to be the best, but you’re lacking a compass – just point at better. Better today coupled with compound interest tomorrow will get you to best.

Einstein struck gold with his thoughts on compound interest. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it…he who doesn’t…pays it.”

Eventually, though, the legends of “best” start a new flow. It goes – best, better than that, best again, better than that, best again, better than that, and so forth.

How’s your game?

How’s your magic?

How’s your purpose?

How’s your hustle?

If you think it’s the best I can only hope you can see it becoming better.

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Dec 19 2012
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Business, Change The World, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Surround Sounds

Give me five minutes with you and I can probably predict the sounds, thoughts, and ideas that currently surround you.
I can tell you the books, people, and ideas that have shaped your taste, posture, economic outlook, and lingo.
You could do the same with me.
Our work probably looks like who we work with. Our music we write probably sounds like our music heroes. Our art probably resembles the work that convinced us to pick up the brush. Our coaching probably resembles the coaching of who once coached us. I could be wrong here, but I’ll take the bet.
So the question here is who or what needs muting and who or what needs to be turned up?
We can’t keep our surrounding sounds a secret.
Indeed, they are the melodies we whistle while we work.
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Dec 17 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Angels In Marble

Michelangelo once noted about his David masterpiece saying, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

For many, our days are nothing more than a big marble block…heavy, burdensome, or simply a rock that weighs one down or must be climbed over.

I’m calling you out and asking you to find the angel in your Monday marble.

See him. What was seen as weight is now viewed as opportunity.

Listen to him. He beckons action.

Chip. Hammer. Chip. Hammer. Set him free.

May the Muse this day give us eyes to see the hidden and maybe even shy, but pleading angels in our marble blocks.

Their (angel) freedom is your fulfillment.

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Dec 11 2012
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Business, Change The World, Leadership, success

Empowerment

Empowerment happens when you give a way or create space for someone to experience fulfillment or joy that otherwise would not have happened without you.

This is also known as entrepreneurial responsibility.

We don’t hear this often, but your art should just as much be about taking someone on a journey or to a destination as it is an expression of yourself and your ideas.

#LTMP

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