Category Archives: Leadership

Little Acts and Big Shifts

Cooking a meal — There’s fast food and there’s slow food. One satisfies a craving and the other satisfies the soul. As long as your phone isn’t nearby, you just might find some peace chopping vegetables and you may even enter a rhythm of being that’s quite serene and wonderfully human.

Smiling at strangers — Try this out for size. We’re not so strange after a gratuitous acknowledgment of the other’s presence.

Writing, stamping, and mailing a handwritten note — Over 3,000 times today  you were sold something. How many times today were you told something in handwritten ink on paper? I rest my case.

Look and SEE — There’s looking and then there’s seeing. I don’t think we see if we’re not looking. Try out a game of ‘I Spy’ in your life, relationships, and business.

Be Silent and Still for two to ten minutes — Try out Headspace for 10 days. When you learn to see and hear the noise you’ll find how to navigate around it and through it. When’s the last time you simply sat still? This will shift things for you.

 

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Musings for Your Weekend

Chef’s Table Season 2 on Netflix

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If you haven’t watched Season 1, then start there. These are some of the most beautiful stories and people you’ll find in documentary world today.

Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett

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Krista’s work and conversations on meaning, beauty, and the art of living have been such a gift for me over the years. Please purchase and read her new, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.

Watch Bonnaroo Live via Red Bull TV Live Stream

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Can’t be in Tennessee this weekend? No worries. Watch the live stream from Bonnaroo. The schedule can be found here.

Lastly, if you haven’t listened to Let The Music Play Podcast, please give an episode a spin. Our guests this year have been food for the soul.

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Patterns and a Questions

Look around at the patterns that surround us.

The sun comes up. The sun goes down.

There’s day. There’s night.

Four seasons continually turn into each other and repeat the process.

The thing that holds the thing that holds the thing we are in is expanding.

What could this be telling us?

What is this saying about the foundations of our reality?

Are there a great rhythms to great truth?

And, if so, are we waltzing with them?

So much in our overlooked peripherals is whispering, “Like this.”

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Podcast 24: Work, Life, & Play with Aaron McHugh

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Aaron McHugh

Aaron McHugh is a writer, blogger, podcaster, and career liberator. He is mastering the art of living a sustainable work-life balance that includes rhythms of play constantly woven in.

Aaron joins us at Let The Music Play Podcast in episode 24 as we discuss the world through his metaphors, his story of overcoming The Resistance and burnout, and a look into what he calls our “emotional caloric expenditures“. Below is a masterful rendering of Aaron’s ideas and thoughts around what depletes our “emotional calories”. Clicking the image below will take you to his blog where you can read his thoughts further on this idea.

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Do you know what depletes you?

 

Furthermore, you’ll hear about his JOY bus (seen below) in this episode as well. In short, it’s simply awesome.

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Aaron’s JOY bus!

Make sure you follow Aaron’s work at AaronMcHugh.com and follow the links below to his book, Fire Your Boss, and his podcast at Work-Life-Play.

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Aaron – thank you for your good and necessary work!

Alas, if you enjoyed this episode, please make sure that you share it with those you love and those you lead. As always, you can subscribe and stream  Let The Music Play Podcast by clicking here.

Godspeed and #LetTheMusicPlay,

Ashton