Category Archives: Leadership

The Stories You Don’t See

Who doesn’t love a great story?

In 2010, I read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and was forever changed.

Finding the concept of story and living a life with meaning and purpose (like a story) was enough to take my life, relationships, and businesses to a whole new level. My wife and I even named our first child Story.

Moving on…

Grand stories are made up of small, easily over-looked stories. The call, the note, the joke, the stranger, the friend, the enemy, the meal, the travel, the action, the reaction, the response, and repetition of it all can be forgettable. The beat of life, relationships, and businesses goes and then and then and then and then…

And then there was today and then there will be tomorrow.

To create a life and a career that are out of the ordinary, we must continually create unforgettable moments and stories that normally would be missed or overlooked.

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The Pencil and the Eraser

The pencil: and.

The eraser: but.

One allows you to write and converse with possibility.

One erases all options of possibility and swims in the bay of blame and rivers of he said she said.

These are two words we’ll use thousands of times this week without thinking that hold massive implications for our communications.

In other words, and > but.

Think about this the next time you talk, text, or email.

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Re: Goodnight.

There isn’t a gift under a tree that compares to the gift(s) under your skin.

Here’s something to chew on between now and 1/1/15.

What if you unwrapped yourself and your world everyday for a year?

Chances are you would gain awareness,

enter into vulnerability,

discover potential,

and lead yourself towards all new possibilities.

Cliche, but it sounds like everyday would provide a form of Christmas.

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That Thing Has A Name…

That thing.

That thing you think about when you look at the cosmos. What is that thing?

That thing you feel when connection happens in a moment, in the world, with a person, and even with yourself. What is that thing?

That thing that has beaten in your chest as long as you can remember. What is that thing?

That thing you feel on December 25th. That thing you wish you could bottle and drink on the 26th, 27th, and thereafter. What is that thing?

That thing that hums when generosity has her way.

That thing that flies when gratitude is swapped.

That thing has a name and its name is Your Music.

I’d like to tell you more, but it’s better if you take it from here.

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