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Jun 19 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination

The Busy Badge

If there is a social badge we’ve adopted in nearly every circle, it’s the badge of busy-ness.

We tell our wives how busy we are. We tell our church group. We tell our confidants. We tell strangers at cocktail parties.

Newsflash – this is how it should be. We should all be doing, creating, learning, serving, and finding. Efficiently.

The problem arrives when we flash our badge of busy-ness to create to the illusion we’re being efficient.

Busy lives are dim.

Efficient lives shine.

Trading busy-ness for efficiency is going to require trading what you like to do for what you should be doing.

Make the trade.

Efficiency gets us closer to fulfillment. Fulfillment of goals and fulfilment of dreams. I think that’s what we’re all after…at least I am.

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Jun 15 2012
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

Seeing Is Believing

There is a difference between being a looky loo and one who actually sees what’s happening or the meaning behind something.

Looking is for the passerby’s. Seeing always beckons a response.

Looking leaves us empty-handed. Seeing finds us rich in thought.

See what I mean? >; Look at me.

Followers look for someone to follow. Leaders see the way.

Stop and look at art, or a flower, or a sunset, or a child today. Now that you’ve looked, think about what you’ve just seen.

In that same mindset look to your world.

Now tell us what you see.

Better yet, show us.

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Jun 14 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

The Bridges

There is a bridge between your dream and your reality.

Think of those you classify as a hero, mentor, or leader. They live on these bridges. They are never content on this side of the ravine.

Ask them how they got to where they are and they always go back to their stories of finding, building, and sometimes even stumbling onto these bridges.

There is a bridge to wisdom. There is a bridge to love. There is a bridge to wealth. There is a bridge to creativity. There is a bridge to peace. There is a bridge to fulfilment.

Just know that what got you here won’t get you there. You’re going to need another bridge.

Dreaming is the easy part, but reality will require a bridge.

And if you can’t find a bridge, please find a way to build one.

The world needs you on the other side of the ravine.

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Jun 13 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Quotes For Summer Thinking Which Should Lead To Summer Action

A few quotes I’ve been dwelling on this summer…

  • It is not the smartest or most intelligent species that survive, but the species that is adaptable to change. Charles Darwin
  • The time to nurse and idea is at its birth. Napoleon Hill
  • One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it. Seth Godin
  • If we are going to create wow experiences, we must become courageous. This is a personal, psychological bridge we need to cross. Michael Hyatt
  • Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. Steve Jobs

Remember, resistance is very content with your knowledge bank, as long as you don’t go spend its deposits. Therefore, we can’t just read words like these, we must live them.

#LTMP

 

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Jun 08 2012
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Creativity, Imagination

Go (Shift) With The Flow

There are very few companies that stop, see change, and change with it.

Many are talking about the shifts that is going on around them. They’re probably wrong though. By the time most get around to talking about a shift, it typically has already happened.

Like:

Newspapers. Shifted (not shifting).

Payphones. Shifted (not shifting).

AOL as a means of Internet access. Shifted (not shifting).

Coins. Shifted (not shifting). Unless you’re at a gum-ball machine.

And so forth…

Those who shift with the world that is shifting around them are known as innovators. I think they’re just simply smart and wise enough to not be glued to their inbox. Call it innovating, but there’s nothing world-changing about paying attention. Or maybe there is…..

You can shift with the flow or fight it. I assure you shifting > fighting it.

Stop. See. Shift.

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