Category Archives: Focus

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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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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Moments

Careful with your moments.

A moment holds the option for you to coach or criticize…please coach.

A moment holds the option for you to sell or serve…please serve.

A moment holds the option for you to accept or challenge the status-quo….please challenge.

All moments are opportunities for you to shape, mold, or change someone’s world.

The core of life’s richness is found in our moments – no matter how big or how small.

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What Needs To Go?

One does not accumulate but eliminate.

It is not the daily increase but daily decrease.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

-Bruce Lee

Knowing where and what to subtract is the art of those who are most progressive.

And yes, I just quoted Bruce Lee.

#LTMP

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What’s next?

The artist is the perpetual creative.

He always longs for more and is caught in wonder about what’s next.

Here’s to setting our sails off the shores of complacency so that we may find new islands of opportunity.

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