Category Archives: Discipline

Nov 12 2013
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Who Says?

Who says your name is just Teacher?

What if today you changed it to World Changer?

Who says your name is just Mom?

What if today you changed it World Changer?

Who says your name is just what’s on your card, door, desk, badge, or name tag?

What if today you changed it to World Changer?

And what if, not only did you believe this, but you lived this out? Day to day. Hour to hour. Moment to moment.

You are not just the mediums you live, move, participate, and exist in.

Rather, you are the meaning carried and transmitted within in these mediums.

Blame Picasso, not the paint.

Blame Mozart, not the violin.

Blame Jobs, not the computer.

Blame Lincoln, not the White House.

Blame Spielberg, not the camera.

Blame Wynn, not blackjack.

Blame Jordan, not basketball.

Blame Zuckerberg, not the Internet.

What if we all repeated this exercise tomorrow?

I say we do.

Then we’ll get to blame you for a better world.

 

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Nov 09 2013
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The Orchestrator Holds Awareness

Leaders are orchestrators. They gather instruments and musicians and write, compose, arrange, and bring together the music at large.

But closer than the pen they hold to write their music, they hold awareness.

Awareness about what has happened.

Awareness about what is happening.

Awareness about what needs to happen.

Awareness about what is going to happen.

If your life or business doesn’t feel like an orchestra, pause and find what’s missing or what has been missed. Become aware.

The more we learn about leadership, education, health, disease, peace, and hope the more see it’s layered in awareness.

When we’re aware we can see. When we can see we can create. When we create we can make change. When we’re different today than we were yesterday, we’re fulfilled.

Nov 07 2013
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The Writing On Our Days

Stephen King writes in his book On Writing that “you must not come lightly to the blank page.”

I think the same can be said of our days.

Each morning is a blank page and it is our duty and responsibility to take the pen and adamantly author meaning, experience, and purpose for our lives.

The page is always there and a pen is always available.

Are you?

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Nov 06 2013
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Giving Yourself To Your Music

Music takes work.

Music takes time.

Music takes romance with an instrument or instruments.

Music doesn’t just happen.

Music can’t comprehend coincidence.

Music takes action. Without it there is no music.

Music doesn’t pray for luck, but she will accept happenstance when it arrives.

Music needs hands, feet, and a voice. Yours preferably.

Something constantly pulls at us trying to convince us that we want fluffy pillows, fancy food, shiny cars, more clothes, bling, and Twitter fame. Yet we’ve never framed one of their receipts or posts have we?

What we truly want from life, if we were to peel it back to the core, is everything that it takes and everything that is needed to make our music.

Ask of your life what it needs for its music to be made and you will have no lack of gain.

Question for the day…”What does my music need?”

Goal for the day…give yourself to that need.

 

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Nov 05 2013
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Measuring

How you measure things will end up ruling you.

Perhaps that’s where we derived the name “ruler” for something that can measure something for us.

However you’re measuring whatever you’re measuring take some time to focus on the depth and not just the width.

Yes we see width, but we remember depth.

Width: look at what I did.

Depth: look at what this meant.

Choose wisely.

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