Category Archives: Imagination

Feb 07 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing

From Here On Out

From here on out he who owns, creates, and establishes new ideas wins.

Prepare yourself…this is going to frustrate the masses.

Business school attempted to teach me the corporate glossary for 4 years. I confess, I left with a B average and I would fail a vocabulary quiz if given one today.

Our future leaders and dreamers will be clueless in regards to challenging the status quo if they’re taught about “synergy” for 4 years like I was.

Let’s add our own words and ideas to the glossaries we intersect. That’s where my hope lies.

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Feb 06 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing

Discovery

There are thousands of singers (both professional and amateur) that could sell more records than any finalist that will win this year’s American Idol. It’s just a fact.

What do these pros and amateurs lack that the finalist of this years competition have? Discovery.

Or put it another way, they didn’t drive to the audition to stand in line…and, therefore, they didn’t get the chance for a yellow ticket to Hollywood. You can’t win the talent show without entering THE SHOW.

This isn’t just a physical conversation. Of course we must drive to the audition…but…
We must also position and take our minds to a place to birth and discover new ideas on a regular basis.
We must also position and take our souls to discover a place that is bigger than ourselves.
We must also position and take our hearts to discover a place where gardening can occur…growth and pruning.

Position and location – the prerequisites that lead to discovery.

It’s Monday. How will you position yourself and where will you go with what you do? The markets never come to us. Go.

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Jan 31 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership

The Aftermath After Math

You + Your Ideas = The Future

Eagle Eye View + Cheetah Eye View = Holistic Education

Decision + Brilliant Execution = Change

Big Hat + No Cattle = Big Hat

Me – My Pride = A Better Man

Listening + Responding + Service = Flawless Business Model

After the math lies the aftermath, and it is in these algorithms where we can decipher what is music or what is noise happening around us.

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Jan 30 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership

Cross-Pollination

Careful not to be locked in your world.

Exposure to “otherness” will leads us all to see that we are all after
the same thing…hope.

Cowboy boots can learn a little something on a Manhattan subway, and
so can Brooks Brothers sleeves rolled up to serve at a shelter.

These boots were not just made for horseback, and these suits were
also meant for serving, not just selling.

It never ceases to amaze me how much “we” and “otherness” have in common. In the same breath, I’m always taken by the beauty that unfolds in the aftermath of cross-pollination.

The fingers of a bluegrass mandolin can learn a lot from a blue jazz soul.

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Jan 26 2012
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Business, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

The Road to Life

The road to life is a disciplined life…Proverbs 10:17

Let’s dissect this.

1) There is a road that leads to life.

2) That road is called Disciplined Drive.

3) There are not multiple roads that lead to life.

4) The road is open to the public…not a tollway.

I’ve met many travelers that burn their tires down this road daily. These travelers are my heroes. They are:

  • Consistent.
  • Conditioned.
  • Exit this road daily with a completed to-do list.
  • Love focused.
  • Mesmerized by the journey and not the reward.
  • Prioritized (God, Family, Business).
  • Unlike the nomad, they are equipped with maps.
  • Can’t and impossible don’t exist in their vocabulary.
  • Destination bound.
  • Readers.
  • Deaf to their critics, but open-eared to their lifelines.

Daily we arrive at the stoplight intersection of Disorganized Street and Disciplined Road.

Straight leads to noise, but a right turn leads to music.

Go ahead. You can turn right on red.

 

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