Category Archives: Imagination

Jul 04 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

The New Rules Aren’t So New

If there are any new rules, they’re just a repeat of the ones we were originally taught kindergarten.

Be nice to one another. Share. Say please and thank you.

This is good news as humanity and soul get to inch back into our businesses and have an active role in our measurements of success and, honestly, even our profitability.

So you have a choice to make. You can keep on keeping on until you have no choice but to participate in the new rules. You can keep pointing at the numbers and asking their opinion. Or, you can take an active role in re-writing the rules for your industry, customer, or tribe. You can point at the soul and ask her thoughts on the matters in question. I think it’s safe to assume, today, that she may have more insight than your spreadsheet does.

NEWSFLASH! The rat race just became a music recital. And aren’t we glad this is so?

#LTMP

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Jul 03 2013
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Discipline: The Code & The Shovel

Imagine having had the chance of being behind the scene’s with the likes of Tiger Woods, Picasso, or Edison. Imagine being in Tiger’s gym. Think of Pablo’s studio. Picture Thomas’ lab.

There’s no doubt we would be convicted and probably shocked with the surplus of do-overs, thrown away drafts, ruined canvases, and sheer commitment.

If we were there we would see discipline. Nothing more – nothing less.

Discipline is the code to the artist’s padlock of imagination.

There’s art in all of us and it’s discipline that digs it out.

We often underestimate what we have to do to get what we want to have done.

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Jul 01 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Accelerate Experimentation

If we can multiply our number of experimentations, we can multiply our chances of being on to something new, something to move us, and something that is ahead of us.

Galileo Galilei once said, “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”

Question: Can we measure without concocting something or conducting an experiment first? I think not. Case in point: You cannot say today was a good day without first having lived the day.

The mixologist must mix before he can measure whether or not he’s on to something. He’s a chemist. He experiments. Then he tastes, measures, and pours his experiment down the drain or puts it on the menu.

It’s Monday. Mix day.

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Jun 28 2013
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Imagination, Leadership, success

Back Tomorrow

Perhaps the hidden secret to accomplishment, goal fulfillment, or dream achievement is found in coming back over and over to what you started.

Day after day after day after day we must come back to the puzzle, the song that needs finishing, the story that needs to wrap up, or the poem that needs to be signed, sealed, and delivered.

At some point we all say ‘the end’ to today.

But those we follow, those that give us a glimpse to the future, and those that show us how things truly are show up tomorrow and follow ‘the end’ with ‘I’m back’.

Finish today. Finish it well.

The space between ”The end’ and ‘I’m back’ is just enough to let the paint dry so you can polish tomorrow.

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Jun 27 2013
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Swap and Ricochet

I get a lot of joy with a cup of coffee and idea swapping with a friend or stranger.

And yet, I don’t do it enough.

This should be a pursuit for us all: more swapping.

Invoke thy sense of awe, ignite wonder, swap your ideas, and let them ricochet where they may.

Where two or more are gathered, I’m convinced the trailing sound of ricocheting ideas is where this is all headed.

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