Category Archives: Focus

Eclecticism: Weird and Random Blending Into True and Right

Look at fashion, note the popular decor, gaze at the arts, listen to the latest music, observe the commercial space, and taste the culinary experience that is successfully unfolding in the world today and you’ll notice one thing from those that are winning: eclecticism.

We are starting to see that as we pull from different genres and the random, typically unused space, this eclecticism is giving life a spring-like aroma, robust flavor, and symphonic sound.

It plays out like this…The technology company studies humanities. The bar learns from the church and vice versa. The dad learns from the child. And we learn from each other as we are passed to each other. In other words, you are a hint towards the greater good for me – and I to you.

In the end we agree that we are one and it’s our oneness, compiled with the eclecticism of our uniqueness, that makes it all – life, family, business – worth it.

You want meaning, purpose, and fulfillment from your life’s music?

Know that bluegrass fingers can learn a lot from a blue-jazz soul.

Mix. Match. Spezatto.

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Here and there. Now and then.

Here and now is all we’ve got.

Tomorrow is but a dream.

What you do here, today, and what you do now are the primary predictors of the future.

Status, condition, experience, meaning, feeling, and fulfillment are all whimsical byproducts of our push within now.

Here > There.

Now > Then.

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The easier the path…

…the greater the chances are of it leading to a dead end.

The reason we gawk at mountains is due in part to us being able to feel and hear their plea for us to climb them.

Rocky? Yes.

Windy? Yes.

Worth it? Most definitely.

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Accelerate Serendepity

My favorite thought from last year was in an article on Tony Hsieh’s thoughts on ‘accelerating serendipity’.

The last thing we want from our days is for them to be consistently similar.

In the end, our lives and our businesses are ideas about ideas and more often than not our new ideas come to us when our paths have hints of randomness and serendipity.

Read the random book.

Shake hands with the stranger.

Take the long route to work.

Listen to the weird tunes.

This is how one accelerates serendipity.

And then you will…

See what you never saw and hear what you never heard.

 

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Fully be…

…present in the moments ahead.

…with this week.

…engaged with this year.

…inhabited in this experience.

Fully be here – right here.

Right now.

We miss the majority of what was meant for our soul’s consumption today when we’re fixated on ‘what’s next’.

In the words of Annie Dillard, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

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