Denial?
Disbelief?
Doubt?
Distraction?
Walk through one of these and it’s quite hard to get back into the room where you cultivate your dreams.
Why have any plan that distracts from plan ‘A’? You don’t want that temptation and your dreams don’t deserve that either.
When we’re talking about your dreams, an exit strategy is an oxymoron. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Or should we ask, “what are you pointing at?”
Are you pointing us towards something to tolerate or something to celebrate?
Are you pointing us at the seen or the unseen?
Are you pointing us towards the noise or the music?
We must constantly ask ourselves what are we pointing at, because that in itself will be the point we leave behind.
Our fingers don’t point back at us for a reason.
Get the point?
Every iPhone sale makes the one you own just a bit more valuable. More connection = more value.
Every new idea you read connects with the previous ideas you’ve been exposed to and makes your new thinking and insight a little more valuable. More dots connected = more value = more people accessing your dots.
Every hand you shake increases the value of your previous handshakes. (Read The Power of Who for more here). More hands connected = more value.
You can play Angry Birds or you can connect with what you’re holding or looking at right now.
Tomorrow we won’t notice your decision, but five years from today we most certainly will.
Chances are if you never try something, you will never know for yourself.
Chances are the longer you wait to do something the less likely you will take action to do it.
Chances are what you put off today will not happen tomorrow.
Chances are as experimentation increases so does one chance of succeeding at something.
Chances are the more we ask ‘what if we did this’ or ‘what if we did that’ we will lay the foundation for actually deciding the appropriate route to take and the chances of it actually working.
As our taking chances increases so do our odds.
Ask more. Swing more. Try more. Write more. Mix more. Make more.
Having done something > Intending to do so.
After walking through the works of Warhol, Picasso, Monet, and Renoire yesterday I came up with the Two Golden Rules of Art:
Enter. Participate.
That’s what it needs from us and, in return, will give us what we need from it.
You can’t sit this one out.
Ashton.Gustafson 