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Mar 07 2014
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Awareness, Change The World, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Yook and Yisten: A Celebration of One’s Uniqueness

My wife and I have three year old girl that lives with us. There’s no doubt you’ll come to know her one day, but for now let’s just call her Story.

Story has many talents, but one of my favorite talents she has is her patent-pending ability to use words that start with a ‘L’ and pronounce them as though they start with a ‘Y”.

Some may call this a flaw to correct, but to me it’s flare to celebrate.

Who said you can’t make funny faces with your music?

Who said keep your tongue in during a slam dunk?

Who said flowers were supposed to be painted right-side up?

Leaders, take a yook and yisten to the flare of your followers.

One’s mean, median, and mode is not what they were sent here to illuminate with.

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Feb 25 2014
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Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

The Same Kind of DIfferent

The more I travel and share with people the more often I’m getting asked what to do.

“What should I be doing?” And “What would you do?” are consistently the most often asked questions during our post talk Q & A’s.

Here’s the catch: they haven’t discovered or tapped into their music.

When you can define your why you will have framed the music you will make. Success is your purpose, meaning, and fulfillment….yours. Not the guy next to you – yours.

Some music begins with a small business and then ends with a white picket fence. Some music begins with a non-profit purpose, has a bridge of relationships, and ends with dinner and a movie. Nevertheless, you can’t say it’s this and you can’t say it’s that.

What I’m getting at is only you can define your success. Webster gave us a generic description, but it’s up to you nail it’s definition down for you.

We’re as much different as we are the same.

Whatever definition you arrive at, I do know this – it ends daily with sleeping well.

Goodnight.

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Feb 20 2014
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Would You Rather….?

Would you rather be able to say “I’m glad I did” or “I wish I had”?

Would you rather have a short-term fix or be long-term greedy?

Would you rather have money or meaning?

Or would you rather pursue meaning on the way to something that is profitable?

The scary thing is this is the game most of us haven’t realized we’re playing. And here’s a shot of truth: choosing not to play doesn’t get you out of the game.

Show me your choices and I’ll show you the music you are making and the music you will have chosen to be made.

There isn’t much that should surprise us.

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Feb 14 2014
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The Youniversity of Why

You and why.

To define one is to define them both.

Show me a man or woman with a ‘why’ and I’ll show you someone who isn’t wondering what, when, where, or how to do their some-thing.

Your something is your why.

Your why is the theme of your life. Your why is your constant living and breathing verb. Your why is your metaphor – your meaning, purpose, and fulfillment that sails just below the surface. Your why isn’t who you think you are or who you think we think you are – it is simply…who…you…are…meant…to be…and become.

Which leads us back to you.

So why you? In short, only you can fulfill such a unique, stand-alone, and divine cause.

And herein lies the holiest of all pursuits: that we would become what we are meant to be.

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Feb 10 2014
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A Happy Medium

So who is right? The artist or the scientist?

The artist, with his art instrument clutched in hand, feels a certain way and then paints what he feels. He felt something and, in doing so, found he is right. “You’ll see”, he says.

The scientist, with her proven algorithms and spreadsheets on display, has consistent, repeatable, and predictable proof. What goes up must come down. She knows she’s right. “Wanna make a bet?”, she says.

Back to the original question…who is right between these two? Thought: Just because the artist and scientist clash on their process of getting to what is true doesn’t make one of them wrong.

Leadership, today, recognizes that – simultaneously – the arts (if one finds joy in their experience) and the sciences (if proven in their research) are both right.

So what are you making with your life, your family, and your business? Whatever your answer is here I think, in order to be fulfilled, you need a dash of the both the arts and the sciences.

Some need to see it to believe it. Some need to feel it to believe it. But we all will believe something within an experience that lets us both feel and see.

And that’s what you’re here to give us: that thing you can explain and that thing you can’t explain. 

You’ve got a big job don’t you?

Happy Monday in your happy mediums.

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