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Dec 31 2013
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Awareness, Books, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

A Letter from 2014

Dearest Musician,

This is your time.

This is your canvas.

So gather your instruments, join your fellow musicians, and let your music play.

Know that you are a better teacher for yourself than any book will ever be. Listen to the mirror.

However, it’s not what you know that will fulfill you. It’s what you become when you do what you do and witnessing who that impacts that will fulfill you.

Keep a lookout for the unseen, untouched, and unloved people, places, and things. There is great opportunity in such discoveries.

And lastly, say no to karaoke and yes to something original.

Yours truly,

Two Thousand and Fourteen

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Dec 30 2013
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The Previews

Einstein once said that ‘your imagination is a preview of life’s coming attraction.’

The Book of Proverbs relays that ‘as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.’

Dreams happen twice.

Once between your ears and once at your fingertips.

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Dec 19 2013
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What You Want(ed)…

…from your career is an experience that opens doors to avenues of other experiences. (Not money)

…from your life is an experience with purpose. (Not popularity)

…from your education is an experience with new data, insight, and enlightenment. (Not a 4.0)

Quick – go to the year 2033 in your mind. That’s just 7,300 sunrises away. Now look back at today.

You’re holding a card in your left hand that reads ‘I wish I had’. In your right hand you’re holding a card that reads ‘I’m glad I did’.

Which one are you holding up?

*Note: Experiments birth experiences.

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Dec 17 2013
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Why Now Is So Important

To begin with, what happens now is the primary predictor of what will happen next.

Take this a step further, and what you do now will play a huge role, if not the primary role, in what you do next. What you hear now will effect what you hear next. What you see now will effect what you see next. How you are and where you are tomorrow will always point back to now.

We need to get lost and found in the now.

Lost in the sense that it’s the creative playtime where our art is thought, designed, crafted, and given to the world.

Found in the sense that our focus is locked in because we know that ‘now’ is the line that connects us to the next dot.

We’re artists. We’re givers. We’re dot connectors.

Now is here.

Now is the time.

Now is what we’ve got.

People always want to know what’s next. I say we get to know our nows (that’s the brave and tough work), and what’s next will naturally show its face.

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Dec 13 2013
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Now That We’re In The Ocean…

…one must become a a pirate.

In an ocean of a billion tweets, a million products, and thousands of brands and ideas how will you navigate these wide waters to find what you’re truly after?

You will successfully navigate these waters and waves by choosing a pirate mentality.

Pirate the ocean for meaning.

Pirate the ocean for metaphors.

Pirate the ocean for depth of relationship.

Go wide in these waters. Raise your sails. Make your mark. Make a splash.

Just know that what you’re looking for is probably twice as deep as it is wide.

A pirate, by nature, obsesses over the subsurface activity and the hunt of buried treasure.

We can all learn from this.

 

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