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Jun 01 2015
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

LTMP Episode 7: The dots. The lines. The circle.

Click here to download in iTunes LTMP Episode 7: The dots. The lines. The circle.

You can also listen here by clicking below.

This week’s artist overview is My Morning Jacket.  Be sure to purchase their new record, The Waterfall.

The song we look into is called ‘In Its Infancy (The Waterfall)’. Lyrics can be found below.

Again [x10]

The idea was always there, in it’s infancy
The seed took root, over many years
An idea grows before it walks
And as it walks, it learns to run
And as it runs, it feels it’s form
The waterfall, can it be stopped?

Again [x12]

[Chorus x2:]
Again I stop the waterfall by simply thinking
Again I stop the waterfall before my breathing
Again I stop the waterfall by finally feeling
Again I stop the waterfall by just believing

Again [x11]

Benediction…..
May you not juggle the dots you choose in this life.
May you not line them up like dominoes.
May you gather them. Allow them to hold hands.
And may you lead them to the great symphony, the great sound, and the great story you were sent here to share.
May you pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. And be love.
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May 29 2015
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Awareness, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Chef’s Table

When two friends from separate places send something our way, we should pay very close attention to it.

Recently, I was sent a new Netflix original docu-series, Chef’s Table, from two friends and I’ve found it to be very worthwhile.

Check out the trailer here.

And click here to watch on Netflix.

No matter your pallet, you’ll leave this hungry to create art across all the canvases of your life.

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May 28 2015
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Awareness, Change The World, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Action and Reality

Parker J. Palmer once wrote, “Right action can be only an immersion of ourselves in reality, an immersion that involves us in relationship, that takes us to our place in the organic nature of things.”

This organic nature of things is the secret to success. We are to be the farmers sowing with the seeds of creativity and service into the dirt of our lives. All the while anticipating the rains to come and sun pull the proverbial blooms from the Earth.

Remove any of the above – the farmer, the dirt, the seeds, the rain, the sun – and reality becomes very different.

Lucky farmer is an oxymoron.

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May 25 2015
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Awareness, Business, Discipline, Imagination, Leadership, success

Eyes. Wide. Awake.

The more you dig into the universe the more you begin to to notice its’ harmony, cadence, and eternal tone. And when you start to see the lines and know the dots of reality that is when the music in-between the two becomes more and more electric.

Think of the last stranger you crossed paths with that left you better than when you found them. Most likely, they were awake – present – or connected with some idea, action, or insight into reality that you never knew of or never had a proper introduction with.

No matter the season you find yourself in, an awake soul is always a refreshing encounter. They move us to melt the joy frozen in winter, bloom a better bloom in the spring, surf the summer shores, and the soak in the re-energy of autumn as it is intended.

3 Things:

1) If we’re going to be strangers to approximately 7.3 billion people, let’s at least be ones that glow.

2) The awake conversation always starts in the eyes. Show me the direction of your eyes and I’ll show you the direction of your life.

3) “Therefore we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen…”

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May 22 2015
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Leadership

Current Reading List

The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring – by Parker J. Palmer

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If found Palmer’s thoughts on action to be very enlightening. I’m seeing a lot better after these words and will for sure reread again very soon.

Walden; on, Life in the Woods – by Henry David Thoreau

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I know I’m late to the ball on this one, but it’s beautiful. I’m not sure if something can become more true as it ages, but it appears that these words are waltzing into our modern world like wine.

Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair – by Anne Lamott

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I think we sow for ourselves a blanket over time with our experiences and insight we gather throughout our days. Everyday gathering another piece of a meaning, hope, and joy to stitch to the blanket we’ve been sowing all our lives. My blanket is bigger and my soul is warmer after I read Anne’s words.

If you don’t read and these titles don’t interest you, no worries. But I ask you to give something a shot. Google the galaxies, check out a TED talk, and just find a way to get curious about something. I think you’ll find that the more dots you find, the more dots you’ll connect.

And it’s all connected.

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