…speak on behalf of your leadership.
…give us the best sermons.
…show us your heart.
…shake, poke, and connect better than any social media platform ever will.
…are what we will remember when you’re gone.
Don’t sit on them.
Ideas, information, and relationships are the fuel of the modern day economic engine. Chances are it is why you’re headed to work now, why you will check social media mediums well over 10 times today, and maybe even why you’ve given this blog the time of day.
New pulls people close. New ideas get conversation started. New information helps others in their decision making. New relationships help straighten the connect-the-dots lines of both our personal and business lives. New authors color, taste, favored sounds, and experience.
The last world pushed. Its marketing pushed us to move, take action, and buy…and buy now. It didn’t pull and ask us what we thought, rather it pushed and told us how we should think. Thankfully this mentality has passed its prime. If you still think this way, it’s safe to assume your experience in this economy is very frustrating.
2 thoughts for all of us today:
1) What will they be saying about us in 3013? We should ponder that answer often.
2) What can we do to get to ‘better’ today? Chances are something new is pulling at you.
Contribution is the great precursor to the places, moments, events, feelings, and fulfillment we’re all after.
He occurs before…
the promotion,
success,
having a follower,
having a following,
“thank you”,
“I’ll have another”,
&
“Welcome back”.
Contribution…the holiest pre-party you could ever host.
May your moments be guided by this question – If I stopped doing this would I be missed?
Here’s a model and mantra for your next startup…We do things you won’t forget.
That’s a mindset and mission that makes enterprises soar in any economy.
A hero of mine once wrote, “I’d love to start again, go back to innocent – and never leave.” That hero would be David Crowder.
At two years of age, my daughter rarely has a day that wasn’t at some point a blast or leaves her awestruck saying “oh my!”. I’m starting to think that innocence has a lot to do with this.
We finish our days locked in our inbox instead of gazing at the cosmos and we start our days fogged in the breaking news in-lieu of being lost in the rays of possibility that the sunrise holds.
Could it be that we know too much and experience too little?
I’ll never forget the day my life changed. Mid February 2006. That was the day I went from “wondering generality to meaningful specific.” It was also the most innocent day of my life.
I try to go back to that day everyday now.
Innocence makes color jump off of the blank canvas and leaves us saying “oh my!”
Ashton.Gustafson 