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Aug 06 2013
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Now I Know My ZYX’s

My wife has created the coolest play area for our girls at our home. It screams think big, think differently, think in color, and let your music play.

On one of the walls in this room is a vintage alphabet with each letter individually framed on the wall. While spending time with one of my daughters in this room this weekend, I decided to learn the alphabet backwards.

I’ve attempted this before, but have not had any luck. Nevertheless, this time was different. I had the full picture of the alphabet in front of me.

After 10 minutes of stuttered chants and eyes locked on the wall I could do finally it without a pause or flaw.

We need the full picture don’t we?

Only then can we go from start to finish or from finish to start and never feel like a fish out of water.

 

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Aug 02 2013
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

We Get There and Then We Can See Further….

When we arrive at what we saw we can always see further.

I have to think that even atop the mountains we climb, something pulls at us to go climb their neighbor.

Praise be that we don’t have finish lines.

We have journeys that birth journeys and the words etched on the gold found at the end of our rainbows read ‘see. there’s more.’

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Jul 31 2013
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

What Are Your Exit Doors?

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.

 

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Jul 30 2013
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Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

What’s Your Point?

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?

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Jul 29 2013
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Connection: The Added Value

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.

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