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Jun 10 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Working Backwards

All things, including our lives and our businesses, were never meant to be about us.

A funny thing happens when we start with the needs of others and go create, cultivate, and work in our businesses from there…and by funny I mean the world becomes a better place.

The old model was this: Start with you and go do something from the there. Thanks to mass market advertising this worked.

However, the new model that is working is backwards: Start with the customer and go do something for them from there.

A lot is changing, but finding a group need and fulfilling it is still very much in style.

To move forward we all need to work backwards in the new model.

Truth > Trend.

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Jun 03 2013
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Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Marketing, success

Like that guy…

Why do it like the guy in the next cubicle?

Why do it like the last guy that came before you?

We’ve seen him – noticed him – and he holds that spot in our minds.

That’s his spot – not yours.

But you’re different.

Your eye sees differently.

Your pen writes differently.

Your words flow differently.

Your style is stylish because it’s different.

When you are different everyone sees it. They see it because it’s hard to miss different in a world of normal.

We don’t need more and more of what we already have.

That’s where you come in.

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May 24 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Please Don’t Stop The Music

There’s a rumor that some school districts are doing away with or consolidating their art and music classes at the elementary level.

I would assume this is probably to fit more standardized teaching and preparation for more standardized testing. Even though the tests the world procures for us outside of academic walls are anything but conventional.

There’s a big difference in asking “what’s the answer?” and “what do you see?”. The answer is memorized. What is seen is imagined. Art gives us that opportunity.

There’s a big difference in asking “what’s the answer?” and “what do you feel or hear?”. The answer is a formulaic. What is felt and heard taps into soul. Music gives us that opportunity to tap into such things.

Maybe school should ask more than it tells its students…the same goes for parents: children, leader: team members, etc.

Learning thy self just may be the highest form of education, and we have a problem when our children have missed the opportunity to discover their own unique and personal voice.

It never ends well when we let the music stop.

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May 21 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music, success

What You’re Supposed To Do vs. What You’re Supposed To Do

We’re supposed to stand and stay in line,

keep our heads down,

stay in the box,

speak when spoken to,

color within the lines,

do it like they did it,

pass some exams,

and get a degree that gets us a job that gets us healthcare and, eventually, gets us retirement.

The problem here is that the grading system that has awarded one’s athleticism to all of this we’re supposed to do is crumbling. The MOMA is full of art that is outside of the lines and the box (and it’s being cheered for). College isn’t finding or getting us THE job it said it would. Free healthcare isn’t providing fulfillment in our jobs. And we’ve thought retirement equaled happiness, but Luby’s five days a week has proven this not to be true.

Shift gears….

…then there is what you’re supposed to do.

That thing inside of you that you can’t shake.

The things that keep you restless on the pillow, but also passionately pulls you from your slumber.

That work that feels like freedom.

That consistent whisper of ‘yes’.

The reason you’re here.

Your music.

Could there be anything worse than looking back at your 30, 40, 50, 60, or 70 plus years of doing what you’re supposed to do and seeing yourself stand in line for the retirement you never really wanted in the first place?

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