Category Archives: Discipline

Sep 17 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Being vs Doing

I finished a book yesterday called Love Works by Joel Manby.

Joel ends the book encouraging us to focus more on our BE goals instead of our DO goals.

I had never heard it put this way and thought it would serve well for a Monday post.

Answering the questions of who am I, what’s my purpose, and where am I headed will get you to doing what you always wanted to do.

You’ve got to BE before you can DO and you’ve got to DO before you can HAVE.

It’s easy to have a product or service. On the other hand, its a reward to have a product or service that stands for something.

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Sep 13 2012
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Business, Change The World, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

What’s Your Sport?

What’s your sport?

Sales? Web-design? Marketing? The culinary arts? Book writing? Song writing? Leadership?

Take a minute to step back and look at your career or areas of life where you want success and think of them in terms of being a sport.

If you look at those around you who are having success, and you allow yourself to see them as athletes, it’s easy to see why they’re winning.

Dream. Train. Prepare. Execute. Measure. Repeat.

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Sep 07 2012
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What Are You Avoiding?

Could it be that the that thing you are least interested in doing is the most important thing you could be doing?

Meet the challenge.

Overcome the fear.

Success is probably summed up best in being defined as the road less traveled.

Don’t go to work just to avoid it.

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Sep 05 2012
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Stop Conforming

 The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

-Colin Wilson, British Author

Stop.

Stop with complaining.

Stop with the coveting.

Stop believing you do not have a choice.

Stop thinking that someone else is responsible for your current course.

Stop accepting decent.

Rather, start.

Start something.

Start the pursuit of extraordinary in all things.

Start to dream.

Start to DO.

This thing is on you and your partnership with The Muse.

In-lieu of conforming start thinking differently. Sounds cliché, but give it whirl.

A mentor from afar of mine, Donald Miller, (that’s one who has written things that I’ve read and listened to, not one who actually has physically mentored me) once said: “You will either write your own story, or someone else will.”

I think the same goes for our music. We either will write it for ourselves or adopt the waltz of another’s noise.

#LTMP

 

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Sep 04 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Leadership

Calling It What It Is

For some reason we don’t always see these as they are, but as we want to see them.

Change this and you change everything.

Have a problem? No, you have a challenge. Big difference.

Have a job? What if you saw your job as a calling? If you don’t have a calling, then yes – you have a job.

Checking email or wasting time? Probably the latter.

See how things are and magically you start seeing how things can be.

This type of vision is one of the true marks of leadership.

Leadership sees the unseen and calls it out for everyone to notice.

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