Step over your borders.
Step over the lines of fear that have kept you in the game and get in the real game on the other side.
Remove the ceilings that block the stars.
Leap over the writing on the walls that say this is all there is.
Find yourself a horizon and go.
Note: There are 168 hours in this week and in 3 days 2013 will be 1/3 over.
When we find ourselves asking this question, in a negative sense, it’s almost always due to a lack of pause in our days and awareness to what’s been unfolding around us.
Measure.
Measure.
Measure.
Measure.
Galileo Galilei said it best. Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
It helps make sense of it all…
It’s the only remedy in a world of noise…
It splashes on us fulfillment, experience, and meaning…
It’s our ‘why’…
It says what words cannot…
It’s bigger than ourselves…
It’s forever mused, but never mastered…
Below is my daughter’s first attempt at her personal art.
I love this.
I can only wonder what she sees here. An ‘A’? A cursive ‘s’? A yarn galaxy? The baton path of a conductor during Symphony No. 5: Adagietto? Or perhaps her color coded map at 2 years old?
I see hope. I see her at the MOMA. I see her finding a metaphor. I see her trying to say something.
And so I must praise, promote, and ask for more scribbling…for it is the yes given now to the scribbling that will lead to her to masterpiece(s) later.
When is the last time you praised the scribbling of your followers?
How or why would your followers ever give you an ear if you never praised them at the get-go?
Think. Pause for a moment. Allow this to be heavy.
How much incredible music have we missed because someone was told they weren’t musical in music class?
How much jaw dropping art have we missed because coloring outside the lines never won best in show at elementary school?
Emerson says it better than I ever could…“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.”
Opportunities birth opportunities that birth opportunities.
If we can get this, we would want to smile a lot more, shake a lot more hands, and connect a lot deeper and quicker in our newly formed relationships.
Key word here is want. When you’re aware of the serendipitous nature of opportunity it makes you aware of the possibility it holds and makes you want to see it come to fruition and partake in its fruit.
The waltz of business is to a song called connect the dots and you’ll find that each dot leads to a bigger, better, and more meaningful dot than the one you’re at now.
#LTMP
Ashton.Gustafson 