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Mar 20 2014
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Awareness, Change The World, Imagination, Leadership, success

A Connection Is…

They’re saying we’re in the “Connection Economy” but what do we mean when we say connection?

Most think this means that you, your cause, your idea, or your service grows when your number of followers and ‘likes’ grows.

Let’s call that what it truly is: a popularity contest. You can buy friends, you can buy likes, but can’t buy a connection. It appears that this connection economy is not suggesting, rather it is demanding that we redefine what it means to connect.

I believe a connection is what happens when, because of you, someone is then connected with some thing-person-idea-information that otherwise would have been disconnected had you not been in relationship with that person. We connect when we become the middle man between someone and their enlightenment. A connection is a relationship where the goal is to see, hear, feel, and taste.

Alas, connection is all about bringing more and more value, clearer insight, holy inspiration, and an overall better experience to those we enter into relationship.

People will connect the dots when you shine a light on them.

Shine.

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Mar 19 2014
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Go Outside…

…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.

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Mar 18 2014
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The Mystery of Music

Perhaps my favorite aspect of the music metaphor for success is its mysteriousness. The truth about our music, the success we pursue, is that it is a never ending and ever-changing pursuit that is always just on the horizon of our vision, reach, and hopes.

Einstein framed this very well by saying, “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Growth stops, fresh turns stale, and color fades to black and white when we lose the emotion of mystery.

I’m After It > I Got It.

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Mar 17 2014
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What Draws Us

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.

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Mar 15 2014
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Right > Perfect

You can make a wrong right.

You can’t go back and pre-perfect the wrong that has passed.

We are works in progress, not works in perfection.

Perfection is about punctuation that marks an ending of something. Right is about a progression and continuation of that which is true and noble.

Perfection touts the finish line. Right boasts in the journey.

Doing, building, and pursuing what’s right inches us ever so closer to living a life that can one day look back with the hope and sense of perfection.

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