…and by free, I mean earned.
It’s your humanity that gets shared, gets talked about, sticks with the recipient, and is what you want to see in your rear view mirror.
You’d be surprised what a Super Bowl ad can’t do.
You don’t need to look like something. You need to be something. The art of becoming eventually paints itself an identity.
Few things are as indicative of your future as who your friends are.
Dreams are previews.
Warm putter > Hot driver.
Where can you build a bridge?
Who needs some dots to be connected?
How can you enlighten us?
These are simple questions with massive implications, should you choose to answer them, for you and your story.
Today, may you move people, things, and ideas to weld them full circle with a fastened sense of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.
Somewhere in your definition of vocation I hope you see the word ‘middleman.’
Be the bridge. Connect. Let your light shine.
There’s something about work that is central to what we do.
Only recently, has it become – right or wrong – a reflection of who we are. Careful with that. I’m afraid, no I’m happy, that was never the intention.
When you think work, think story. And when you think story, think plot.
There’s a couple of ways to define plot:
1) A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose: a garden plot.
2) To conceive and arrange the action and incidents of something.
Create a holy harmony of these two definitions and there you will have the definition of work. Also known as the intersection of where passion meets purpose and the formula for a good night’s sleep. Work is a purposeful garden.
Lastly, there’s a another way to approach the concept of work and that’s through the lens of the protagonist. Who is he? He’s the character in a story that knows what he wants and overcomes conflict to get it. He is the guy plotting his way towards a series of finish lines and victories that his muse has whispered.
It’s work being the protagonist isn’t it?
Choosing is working.
Choosing to give. Choosing to serve. Choosing to lead.
Begging is not working.
And a beggar can’t be a chooser, right?
Success, music, art, and skill all sow their seeds in the soils of choice.
Many things are out of our control, but not our choices.
Choosing to sow > Begging for rain.
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