If you can avoid the text and make the call do so.
If you can avoid the call and discuss in person do so.
If you can avoid the email and handwrite the note do so.
Your effectiveness and efficiency increases at the same rate your handshakes, eye to eye contacts, and note writing does.
You can’t be spammed – only your technology can be.
Across all lines of communication Human > Digital.
Now, more than ever, success is going to require that you get further and further from the pack,
further and further out of the box,
further and further from standard operating procedures,
and further and further from limited thinkers and dreamers.
The rat race is noisiest and most crowded place on earth. The problem is you don’t notice the noise or the mass competition of the race when you’re there. The rat race will convince you that “this is just how things are.”
Did Usain Bolt race this past week or just do his thing?
Was Apple ever in a race to creat the first cell phone?
Wherever you’re looking to go or whatever music you’re trying to create think the opposite of rat race.
From here on out, it will only be the outliers that move further and further from all things normal and average that will succeed on massive levels.
What about art?
What about leaving this place better than you found it?
What about you changing the world?
What about “why”?
What about creating a movement?
What’s love got to do with it?
What about changing your industry standard?
What would the costumer feel about this?
What about redefining your roles(s)?
What about the potential music in all this noise?
We’ve got to adopt a pet peeve for all things normal.
The iPod was out of the box. Medal #1.
The iPhone started its own box. Medal #2.
The iPad has now finished that box and the masses have taken up residence there. Medal #3.
And we know, today, the minds in Cupertino are imagining and creating what will lead to medals #4, #5, #6, etc.
Remarkable is the habit of the greats.
Is it me – or does the 20th Olympic medal look a lot easier to get than the first?
Do something so wild –
Create something so extravagant –
Serve in a way that is so mind-blowing that you cause the first domino to fall –
He will then pave the way for the rest.
8:22 am
We don’t soak up life enough.
We don’t want our dreams bad enough.
We blame others too much.
We are successful where we are calloused.
We don’t look at the stars enough.
Remember your first day on the job. Where’d the joy and passion go?
There were things left unfinished yesterday. Unacceptable.
Now is the most important minute of the day. (It’s always now)
We should challenge the status quo more often.
Your plan got you here.
We forget to pray. Not in the cliché sense – I’m talking truly connecting with Infinite Intelligence.
Art. Career. Family. Purpose. = Life = Joy. Hope. Passion. Etc. = What we’re really after.
Fly fishing should be required to be taught in all public schools.
We need your music. The noise is getting out of control.
Music’s antonym is accident.
We are all Olympians in something.
We’ve got one shot at this thing.
Let the music play. No, today – make it play.
8:27 am #LTMP
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