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Jan 28 2014
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

The Point

“But tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than the present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.” Alan W. Watts

This moment is the point.

This hour holds the point.

And the next hour will hold its own point.

Moment to moment, connection to connection, conversation to conversation, hand to hand, and soul to soul….to be IN and to be ONE with our moments is the point.

All of your experiences thus far point directly to this reality:  You were meant and created to make your music right now.

There’s a billion points the world will convince to bet the farm on, but there’s truly only one to go all in on: your music.

Let it play.

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Jan 22 2014
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Here and there. Now and then.

Here and now is all we’ve got.

Tomorrow is but a dream.

What you do here, today, and what you do now are the primary predictors of the future.

Status, condition, experience, meaning, feeling, and fulfillment are all whimsical byproducts of our push within now.

Here > There.

Now > Then.

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Jan 21 2014
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The easier the path…

…the greater the chances are of it leading to a dead end.

The reason we gawk at mountains is due in part to us being able to feel and hear their plea for us to climb them.

Rocky? Yes.

Windy? Yes.

Worth it? Most definitely.

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Jan 20 2014
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Conviction

Show me a man or woman with a life powered by their ‘why’ and I’ll show you someone who is rarely wondering what to do or how to do something.

No one wondered where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in regards to his ‘why’. He spoke it. He lived it. He clothed himself with it and, in doing so, encouraged and inspired the world with it.

Whatever it is you are after, whatever it is you want, whatever is your dream – you have to believe it before anyone else will. Day after day, you must consistently and persistently believe.

Persistence is a byproduct of faith and faith typically comes from a deep conviction in one’s ‘why’.

The world doesn’t change without conviction.

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Jan 16 2014
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‘Long-Term Greedy’

Gus Levy is credited with coining the phrase ‘long-term greedy’. He chose these words for the culture he built in the 1960’s and 70’s at Goldman Sachs.

On first hearing these words we get a little uncomfortable. The word greedy rarely rings as something pure and worth pursuing.

However, this concept of long-term greed is simply another way to discuss the Law of Harvest and the Law of Cause and Effect.

Long-term greed does its homework.

Long-term greed honors the relationship.

Long-term greed saves a penny, earns a penny, and sees the penny multiplied.

Long-term greed responds and doesn’t react.

Long-term greed sees tomorrow in the moments made today.

We should all be greedy for purpose, meaning, and fulfillment.

Let us not be shortsighted for such a destination…it’s going to be a long flight.

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