Never lose your sense of wonderment.
Never trade great for good enough.
Never overlook the good.
Never look around the bad.
Never pass on the chance to make someone’s day.
Hard as it may be, never fail to finish that thought, that dream, that idea, or that song.
Nevermind is the #1 cause of all dream deaths.
If you’re going to be building a skyscraper career, be sure that you obsess over the foundation.
We applaud those that scrape the sky, but it’s the foundation that makes the scraping of the heavens possible.
The only way you will be able to go 100 floors high is if you are well founded 10 floors deep.
And don’t become jaded by others that are skyscraping in their careers. Stay with your foundation. Pour it and build it pillar by pillar. Live there for weeks, months, or years if you have to.
The most important part of your skyscraper will not be what is seen but what is unseen.
There is a bridge between your dream and your reality.
Think of those you classify as a hero, mentor, or leader. They live on these bridges. They are never content on this side of the ravine.
Ask them how they got to where they are and they always go back to their stories of finding, building, and sometimes even stumbling onto these bridges.
There is a bridge to wisdom. There is a bridge to love. There is a bridge to wealth. There is a bridge to creativity. There is a bridge to peace. There is a bridge to fulfilment.
Just know that what got you here won’t get you there. You’re going to need another bridge.
Dreaming is the easy part, but reality will require a bridge.
And if you can’t find a bridge, please find a way to build one.
The world needs you on the other side of the ravine.
One of the problems graduating from school, finishing a book, or having listened to a message is that we get really proud of what we now know.
I would argue that today, at this very moment, you know most of what you need to know to succeed in your ventures.
You know what you should or should not eat. You know who you need to call. You know the difficult tasks that need to be done. You know. I know you know.
You know what it would take to think back on your day as you drive home this evening and be able to check ‘yes’ on “denting the world.”
Some thoughts for your Monday:
Resistance is very content with your knowledge bank, as long as you don’t go spend its deposits.
Know-it-all’s are noisy. Do-it-all’s are quite musical.
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Just doing it > Just knowing it.
There are very few companies that stop, see change, and change with it.
Many are talking about the shifts that is going on around them. They’re probably wrong though. By the time most get around to talking about a shift, it typically has already happened.
Like:
Newspapers. Shifted (not shifting).
Payphones. Shifted (not shifting).
AOL as a means of Internet access. Shifted (not shifting).
Coins. Shifted (not shifting). Unless you’re at a gum-ball machine.
And so forth…
Those who shift with the world that is shifting around them are known as innovators. I think they’re just simply smart and wise enough to not be glued to their inbox. Call it innovating, but there’s nothing world-changing about paying attention. Or maybe there is…..
You can shift with the flow or fight it. I assure you shifting > fighting it.
Stop. See. Shift.
Ashton.Gustafson 