…isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be.
On the flipside, something beautiful unfolds when we ponder what will be the the necessary solutions and answers for the questions that will be asked of those that we serve tomorrow and in the days to come.
We have moved from an economy of standardized tests to one powered by the pop quiz.
Ears.
Eyes.
Be ready.
…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.
We are drawn those people and entities that offer:
Awareness – We follow those with a sensitivity to what has happened, what’s happening, and what’s going to happen.
Openness – We follow the learners and those that offer themselves to being teachable.
Belief – We follow those that are rooted in a core idea or belief and it appears that Faith has a twin sister named Persistence.
Collectively, your music must draw us into all three of these.
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.
We talk about changing the world often and, typically, our thinking defaults to imagining ourselves moving across state lines, across oceans, across the bottom line of CNBC, and across the planet with our dreams, ideas, thoughts, goods, and services.
Yes. Moving your ‘thing’ across the ocean is one way to change the world.
But…
What about the cubicle across from your office?
What about your neighbor across the street?
What about those souls across from you at your dinner table?
What about the customer sitting across from you, on your site, via the Internet?
Point: More often than not, changing the world looks more like your front porch than it does a passport.
Look across.
