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Jun 11 2013
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Leadership

10 Years From Now What Will Still Be Warm?

We often ask how the world will be different 10 years from today, but rarely discuss what will still be the same.

None of us know what will be hot 10 years from today. Some of us think we do, but hot things aren’t necessarily predictable. So the questions is what will still be warm? What will be constant?

The most probable answers are things like: respect, relationship, service, response, speed, communication, and experience. 10 years from today they will be warm. 100 years from today they will still be warm.

It’s much riskier to put all your chips on the hottest platform, media outlet, or trend than it is the things that are warm and constant.

That is not to say we should ignore what’s hot. We just can’t forget that entrepreneurship and good business is embracing what’s hot in the pursuit of what never gets cold.

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Apr 02 2013
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Leadership

Gradually. Suddenly.

Gradually we pursue something.

Suddenly we’re asking ourselves how we got here.

Average steps gradually lead to an average life.

Scary, brave, interesting, and challenging steps gradually lead to the life we’ve always dreamed of.

Side by side and day by day it’s hard to distinguish the difference between average steps and the challenging steps. The only difference is when you suddenly see how different the places they take you are.

All things arrive to us gradually, but suddenly they’re noticed.

May we be the people that see what’s gradually happening around and in us. For this is the horizon of our hope.

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Mar 19 2013
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Change The World, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

Shoe-Swapping

Remember when…

  • the procedure wasn’t fully explained by the doc?
  • the meal wasn’t as good the press release promised and the owner did nothing?
  • the contract wasn’t fully explained?
  • the terms weren’t fully disclosed?
  • what you got wasn’t what you thought you were getting?
  • the message sent was not the message received.
  • someone over-promised and under-performed.
  • how it felt to not be served.
  • how it felt to be served.

Good business is metaphorical shoe-swapping. In other words, “what if I were them?” should be the questioning chorus of our moments.

If you have a Golden Rule fight song – cue the music.

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Mar 01 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, success

Innocent

A hero of mine once wrote, “I’d love to start again, go back to innocent – and never leave.” That hero would be David Crowder.

At two years of age, my daughter rarely has a day that wasn’t at some point a blast or leaves her awestruck saying “oh my!”. I’m starting to think that innocence has a lot to do with this.

We finish our days  locked in our inbox instead of gazing at the cosmos and we start our days fogged in the  breaking news in-lieu of being lost in the rays of possibility that the sunrise holds.

Could it be that we know too much and experience too little?

I’ll never forget the day my life changed. Mid February 2006. That was the day I went from “wondering generality to meaningful specific.” It was also the most innocent day of my life.

I try to go back to that day everyday now.

Innocence makes color jump off of the blank canvas and leaves us saying “oh my!”

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Feb 08 2013
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Leadership, success

Which Hurts Worse?

The journey or regret?

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