Category Archives: Creativity

Aug 01 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

A speedy rant.

8:22 am

We don’t soak up life enough.

We don’t want our dreams bad enough.

We blame others too much.

We are successful where we are calloused.

We don’t look at the stars enough.

Remember your first day on the job. Where’d the joy and passion go?

There were things left unfinished yesterday. Unacceptable.

Now is the most important minute of the day. (It’s always now)

We should challenge the status quo more often.

Your plan got you here.

We forget to pray. Not in the cliché sense – I’m talking truly connecting with Infinite Intelligence.

Art. Career. Family. Purpose. = Life = Joy. Hope. Passion. Etc. = What we’re really after.

Fly fishing should be required to be taught in all public schools.

We need your music. The noise is getting out of control.

Music’s antonym is accident.

We are all Olympians in something.

We’ve got one shot at this thing.

Let the music play. No, today – make it play.

8:27 am #LTMP

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Jul 25 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Towel Throwing

You started and then what happened?

It got harder than you expected.

It looked different from the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

The other guy got a head start.

You drilled a dry hole.

You found out that skill development was greater than your natural gifting(s). That frustrated you.

You fouled out.

Someone said no.

You got hung up on.

Dealer was showing ace. You had a pair of 8’s.

You pulled a hammy.

You got writers block.

You needed sleep.

You had to work on the weekends.

And so forth…

I would estimate that 9 out of 10 people throw the towel in on 9 out of 10 things they start to do or try to create.

Why?

Simple answer – it’s easier to quit.

It’s easier to claim the dream wasn’t real.

Everyone loves the talk of getting married.

Where’s the discussion on being married?

Look at those who you call a hero and companies/churches you consider to be heroic.

Chances are they’re holding on to most of the towels that had the chance to be thrown in at some point in time.

 

 

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Jul 24 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership

Your Human Hardware

Hands:

Great for introducing yourself to others and making things out of other things. Service is their functionality.

Eyes:

Great for seeing – but seeing what no one else does in the moment, in the art, or in the chaos. Blessed is he whose eyes give him vision.

Mind:

Unfathomable processing speeds and comes preloaded with the latest creative software. All studies show this is one’s greatest gift.

Heart:

Created to be put into and/or given to some thing, cause, passion or idea. Guard it above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Prov 4:23

Question…

Are you being or becoming fully you?

#LTMP

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound  ourselves.”
– Thomas A Edison

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Jul 20 2012
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Business, Creativity, Focus, Leadership, Marketing

Where’s Your Value?

The anthem in our business is that we seek to be value focused – which will achieve results – instead of being results focused and hoping to add value.

So your idea, product, or service isn’t selling?

Chances are the market’s perceived value of what you are offering is less than the price you are asking or charging.

The market never stops asking “where’s your value?” Check yourself.

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Jul 17 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus

Daily Questions for the Entrepreneur

Is your brand expanding?

Is your mind expanding?

Are you following the map or drawing it?

What are you becoming?

Are you another day closer to or further from your goals?

Can you define your purpose?

Are you bored?

Are you curious?

Is there more market share available?

Are you making new friends?

Who’s following you?

Who are you following?

Is it worth it?

What’s next?

Who’s not being served? How are you going to fix that?

Why?

Why not?

What’s louder in your life – the noise or the music?

 

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