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Mar 19 2014
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Awareness, Change The World, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Go Outside…

…of ordinary that is.

For one to achieve something outside of the ordinary, they must leave ordinary circumstances, moments, and mentalities.

A worthy goal, with the right mindset, is to make each area of your life as unusual as possible.

Sleep time, wake up time, practice, play, rest, relationships, work ethic, energy, failure/success, belief, study time, watching, listening, note taking, connecting…these are the areas we must pursue an awareness of and enter into with unusual, and hopefully habitual, thinking and action.

2 Things:

Normal is going to get you normal every time.

&

You’re going to want to be called weird.

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Mar 18 2014
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The Mystery of Music

Perhaps my favorite aspect of the music metaphor for success is its mysteriousness. The truth about our music, the success we pursue, is that it is a never ending and ever-changing pursuit that is always just on the horizon of our vision, reach, and hopes.

Einstein framed this very well by saying, “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Growth stops, fresh turns stale, and color fades to black and white when we lose the emotion of mystery.

I’m After It > I Got It.

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Mar 15 2014
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Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Right > Perfect

You can make a wrong right.

You can’t go back and pre-perfect the wrong that has passed.

We are works in progress, not works in perfection.

Perfection is about punctuation that marks an ending of something. Right is about a progression and continuation of that which is true and noble.

Perfection touts the finish line. Right boasts in the journey.

Doing, building, and pursuing what’s right inches us ever so closer to living a life that can one day look back with the hope and sense of perfection.

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Mar 13 2014
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Dimmi

Leonardo da Vinci was a relentless note taker. He literally left behind thousands and thousands of pages with his thoughts, interpretations, suspicions, and beliefs about anything and everything.

If one is to thumb through his notes, they will consistently find the words “Dimmi” written over and over.

Dimmi is translated as ‘tell me’ in Italian.

This has rattled me.

It appears that there were very few thoughts, moments, and wonders where da Vinci didn’t ask to be taught or offer himself as a student of what could be illuminated in the scene transpiring before him.

There’s so much this place wants to tell us.

Ask and you shall receive.

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Mar 12 2014
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Leadership

The Movement of and Towards Our Hope

Hope has been called many things, but no one has ever called it stationary.

There’s a theme of journey that shadows all of our hopes. And as it moves so must we continually move towards it.

Yet we often couple our words of ‘I hope’ with a stationary follow through – i.e. no movement towards anything that can or may fulfill our hopes and dreams.

Emily Dickenson beautifully captured a thought on hope with saying, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. And sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”

So you say, with all this talk about movement, where is all this headed?

Here: Hope does not respect kicked up feet and finds crossed fingers to be quite unhelpful.

 

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