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Mar 22 2013
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Experience > Knowledge.

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.

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Mar 18 2013
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Below The Surface of the Colors We See

You’ve got them – I’ve got them – we’ve all got them.

Purple problems we’re sifting through, orange organizations we work in, and green goals we’re after.

But they’re not just colors are they? Something got them here to the color they actually are. Circumstance, belief, courage, fear, paranoia, joy, hope, purpose, harsh words, and encouraging words all mixed together to make the colors of your world. Blue and red made your purple. Yellow and red made your orange. Blue and yellow made your green. Oh, and blue and green and a little more blue after the initial mix made your turquoise.

May we be the leaders that gaze into Purple to see her red heart and blue soul.

May we be the leaders that take Orange and love him for his awkward yellow ways and red personality.

May we be the leaders that get under the skin of Green to find its blue ocean and yellow streams.

Don’t be fooled by the outer coat or the surface because it’s just an illusion of what has happened within and below it. There’s a world of mixing, matching, and harmony that occurred to make the color that you see before you.

If you hear anything today hear this…That thing you call Orange just may be waiving his red hands at you. Look deeply. Listen closely.

It is below that surface that the beauty of most things come to life and if you want to be a leader you must fall in love with snorkeling.

 

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Mar 14 2013
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Re___________

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.

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Mar 13 2013
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What’s Close By?

Its been said that you’re a collected image of the 5 people you spend the most time with. So the question is should those relationships come closer or should there be space made for other/better relationships to thrive?

Its been said that the mouth is the overflow of the heart. So the question is what words are being watered in the garden that beats in your chest?

Its been said that attitude is everything. So the question is are you living within attitudes to produce possibility or are you throwing yourself a pity party for one?

3 things to monitor the nearness of: your friends, your words, and your attitudes.

We are a byproduct of our proximity to such things and your humming typically gives us access to the last song you experienced.

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Mar 12 2013
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Your role in the conversations you start or decide to join

Give.

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