Leaders embrace change.
Leaders predict change.
Leaders create the change.
Laggards deny the embrace, mock the prediction, and fear creating for the sake of what the others may think or say.
Leading > Lagging
If you’ve stuck with this blog for its short life, you know I believe in mentorship.
I believe in it because it has changed my life.
Every time I leave a greenhouse exchange with a mentor I feel more suitable for growth, pruned, and better rooted.
A great mentor really cares about your growth and welcomes you into his/her greenhouse.
Seek the shelter and atmosphere of growth that the greenhouse offers.
When it clicks in our heads that success equals gardening that is when we will do everything we can to hangout with the green thumbs of our industries.
In the beginning was you, your dream, and your passion.
Chances are you’re in the latter part of your beginning or in the middle of your pursuit of that dream. Is that original passion still there?
In the end will be your legacy…and that legacy will be defined by the passion that got you to your dream.
Passion is the missing link or the magic link.
Separate yourself.
Don’t be locked into what your industry and the world has labeled you.
You’re more than a mom. You’re more than an artist. You’re more than a Realtor. You’re more than a coach. You’re more than a teacher. You’re more than a chef. You’re more than what your label infers.
If you were going make music for a living (a good living) would you simply take the music that has already been written and perform that?
No. You would pour yourself into YOUR music. It would keep you awake at night thinking about how to create, write, and bring to market the new. That’s what you would dream of performing. You would feel like that is why you are here…to bring about something new.
Separate yourself, because like it or not the world will know you by your music and block you by your noise.
Commodities = Noise. As you separate from the noise of commoditization there you will find an opportunity to make music and a crowd eager to hear what you’ve got say and play.
Let’s beat the dead horse. Success requires separation.
You don’t have to know a lot of things or do a lot of things to be successful.
Emerson once wrote, “The law of nature is, DO the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”
Want to be successful? Hang around someone who embodies your definition of success and do what they do.
The problem is we’re looking for hidden codes when success has already left the clues we’re looking for.
Think bigger. Act smaller.
Ashton.Gustafson 