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Jun 04 2012
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Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Revolutionary

Most of us dream of revolutionizing something.

We want to change the system, the model, the family, the industry, the process,  the service, or the product.

This will happen when you simply play and prepare for your game of choice better than anyone else.

Alabama is revolutionary in football simply by better defense.

The San Antonio Spurs are revolutionary in basketball simply by pick and rolls and bounce passes.

Apple is revolutionary simply by putting smart into a smart phone.

Warren Buffet is revolutionary simply by purchasing stock in great companies, with great vision, that have demand for their product/service in the future.

We have to delete the thought from our minds that being revolutionary has a lot to do with bringing sexy back. It doesn’t. It never has. It never will be about that.

Prepare, show up, and play the game harder than the next guy – and then, by default, you will be called revolutionary.

 

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Jun 01 2012
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Leadership

Stay Fresh.

We are pulled to newness now more than we ever have been.

New thoughts. New ideas. New questions.  New status quo’s.

Your newness will determine your brand’s longevity.

Stay fresh. Don’t be a cover band.

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May 31 2012
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Discipline, Focus, Leadership

Yig-Wig

We have a saying in our office that is the final statement of our core values: You Get What You Give.

Abbreviated into YGWYG, I refer to it as “yig-wig.”

This is a foundational thought that will live in every company I’m blessed to participate with throughout my career.

It takes courage to give.

So if you’re after more joy courageously give more joy.

Not getting the information you want from your customer? Then freely, unashamed, and Santa-Claus-like, tastefully, give them more GREAT information they can use.

Givers are very beneficial to receivers. Don’t forget that.

This will take you being vulnerable too.

The commerce of the future will belong to those who do not stray way from this vulnerability, but to the ones who embrace it.

Watch. Much of what we pay for today 10 years from now will be freely given. But done right, the customer will see that and in return give currency in return for something else.

In his song “Wheel”, John Mayer sums this up perfectly. “I believe that my life is going to see the love I give return to me.”

#LTMP

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May 29 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Let The Music Play

Opportunities

One day an opportunity will arise for you the salesman to say I’m sorry. I was wrong. It was my fault. My product or service did not work the way it was intended to.

Everyday an opportunity will arise for you to serve.

Most days an opportunity will arise for you to not ignore the call.

Probably everyday an opportunity will arise for you to make the call you don’t want to.

When we don’t take the opportunity alloted, we miss a musical opportunity.

Noise is what the market expects (you’re not going to serve well, you’re not going to say you were wrong, you’re going to ignore the difficult call, and you’re not going to make the follow-up call). Noise is par. Noise is average. Noise is vanilla.

I’m giving you 2 permissions:

1) You are allowed to ignore the small voice inside your head that wants you to play the blame game, not serve, ignore the call, or not make the call. The more we give in to this voice, the more shallow life becomes.

2) Talk to your fears. Call them out. Address them. Demand they weaken. They’re responsible for most of where we’re lacking music in our lives.

Now that you have this permission, what are you waiting on?

Our days are full of endless opportunities, and it is the result of these opportunities that will cause your brand continue living in an economy where there are brand causalities happening all around us.

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May 28 2012
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Discipline, Focus

Your Big Break

When you finally know what you want you will find yourself on the brink of your big break.

When you know you know what you want you find ways to get it.

When you know what you want Divinity starts clearing a path.

Unfortunately, we’re bombarded with thousands of messages everyday telling us what we should want. Resistance gets its fix on a confused population.

Have you asked yourself lately what you want? Hint: It’s probably more of an outcome your after than it is money, looks, a person, or a thing. And as time evolves, the wants change.

Your big break is just around the corner. When you get around the corner there will be turbulence, frustration, and resistance. Stay the course, dodge the bombarding noise, and find your music.

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