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Dec 17 2013

Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, success

Why Now Is So Important

To begin with, what happens now is the primary predictor of what will happen next.

Take this a step further, and what you do now will play a huge role, if not the primary role, in what you do next. What you hear now will effect what you hear next. What you see now will effect what you see next. How you are and where you are tomorrow will always point back to now.

We need to get lost and found in the now.

Lost in the sense that it’s the creative playtime where our art is thought, designed, crafted, and given to the world.

Found in the sense that our focus is locked in because we know that ‘now’ is the line that connects us to the next dot.

We’re artists. We’re givers. We’re dot connectors.

Now is here.

Now is the time.

Now is what we’ve got.

People always want to know what’s next. I say we get to know our nows (that’s the brave and tough work), and what’s next will naturally show its face.

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Dec 13 2013

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Now That We’re In The Ocean…

…one must become a a pirate.

In an ocean of a billion tweets, a million products, and thousands of brands and ideas how will you navigate these wide waters to find what you’re truly after?

You will successfully navigate these waters and waves by choosing a pirate mentality.

Pirate the ocean for meaning.

Pirate the ocean for metaphors.

Pirate the ocean for depth of relationship.

Go wide in these waters. Raise your sails. Make your mark. Make a splash.

Just know that what you’re looking for is probably twice as deep as it is wide.

A pirate, by nature, obsesses over the subsurface activity and the hunt of buried treasure.

We can all learn from this.

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Dec 11 2013

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You Saw It, You Just Missed It

Your hand is on a computer mouse, smart phone, keyboard, or laptop right now. Have you blocked that fact out? Jobs saw this coming in the 80’s while hacking away in his garage.

There’s probably a lightbulb buzzing around you right now. Did you miss that? Edison sat in the dark and saw this moment for us in 1879.

The rising sun is casting neon rays against the clouds and across the horizon. Did you catch that? Or was it blotted out by a Starbucks sign? Could you capture that beauty and put a fraction of it into what you make today?

The rose is in bloom. Are you?

And people. What about people? What about souls? Are they data and statistics? Or are they the ocean of your experience?

Most often, it’s not that you can’t see what’s around you. Oh you can see alright! Rather, it’s simply that you’re not looking. Or, you’re not looking for the right things in the odd and rare places they can found.

Look.

Whatever you’re looking for, you can find it anywhere. And typically, when we’re looking for something we see it everywhere.

So the BIG question is what are you looking for? Hope? A pity party? Passion? Joy? Profit? A deal? The next rung on the ladder? Measurement? Yourself? Experience? Meaning?

In a world powered by your music, we give all too much attention to the noise around us.

Before I hit publish I prayed that you would have whatever moment, person, experience, or thought you need to see today.