Category Archives: Focus

May 08 2012
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Business, Focus, Imagination

Thoughts – The Road to Reality

I just started Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I’m finding this is one of those “where has this been all my life” books.

Yesterday I read something that I wasn’t able to shake…”Our thoughts have relatives.”

In other words, if we see something as a problem we can turn it into a nightmare. Or, if we see something as a challenge we just might be able to also see the solution.

How we see in things our minds has a lot to do with how we hold them and respond to them in the physical.

Think about it. Change your thoughts – change your life.

 

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May 07 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Preach.

I’m not arguing here to make your music crucial to the world’s existence. SomeOne has already lived, written, and recorded those ballads.

What I am arguing is for you to pour yourself into something that is crucial to your survival.

There is something deep down in all of us that we know must be done. Self-actualization if you will. Listen deep and go there.

You will need your instruments, but listening to your core will open the floodgates on how to, where to, and why to use them.

It’s Monday. Let’s work towards a Regretless Friday.

#LTMP.

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May 03 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Accidental Art

Accidental art is an oxymoron.

An artist is engaged, purposeful, compass oriented, and mission-minded.

Whatever music your trying to make won’t happen accidentally.

Music combust when all of you, your ideas, your direction, and your purposes collide. It’s up to you to gather the tools for combustion plus a ton of behind the scenes work from the Director above.

Pick up the pen, the paint, the instrument or whatever tools are necessary and have at it.

This is also a plea for you to remove the word luck from your vocabulary.

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May 02 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing

Melted Cheese

In the last week I’ve chosen to eat at two restaurants because of their offer of free melted cheese – queso.

They got me.

And so have all these other products, companies, and teams with their own variations of melted cheese.

  • Amazon’s offers queso with Prime (free shipping).
  • Apple’s queso is interface (all products talk the same lingo).
  • The Dallas Maverick’s offer a side of queso with their owner – Mark Cuban.
  • TOMs shoes offers queso in the form of philanthropy.
  • Southwest Airlines queso tastes like affordability and on-time arrival.
  • Zappos changes their queso recipe daily, but I’ve never not come back for more.

 

You won’t believe what the world will do for free queso. So offer it.

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Apr 30 2012
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Business, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Today Not Tomorrow and the Power of One

If have found the power of one handshake with a stranger, one conversation with a friend, one tough call made, one new idea birthed, one difficult action performed, and one simple day can change your life.

Do you realize how significant today is?

There’s music to be had.

Seize it.

A.E.P,

Ashton

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