When the eyes are new, everything is renewed, refreshed, and recharged.
Paul Valéry once said, “To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
What have you been calling yourself?
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, is one of the guys that I’m always taking notes from. Back in March, I read an article in Fast Company about his decision to move the company to adopt Holacracy. Holacracy is “…a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss.”
Today, the book came in.
If you or anyone you know has implemented Holacracy, I would love to hear about the experience and learn whatever you can teach me.
I started reading it tonight and as the book reads – ‘change can be elegant’.
Sounds fun.
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This week’s artist overview is My Morning Jacket. Be sure to purchase their new record, The Waterfall.
The song we look into is called ‘In Its Infancy (The Waterfall)’. Lyrics can be found below.
Again [x10]
The idea was always there, in it’s infancy
The seed took root, over many years
An idea grows before it walks
And as it walks, it learns to run
And as it runs, it feels it’s form
The waterfall, can it be stopped?
Again [x12]
[Chorus x2:]
Again I stop the waterfall by simply thinking
Again I stop the waterfall before my breathing
Again I stop the waterfall by finally feeling
Again I stop the waterfall by just believing
Again [x11]
Parker J. Palmer once wrote, “Right action can be only an immersion of ourselves in reality, an immersion that involves us in relationship, that takes us to our place in the organic nature of things.”
This organic nature of things is the secret to success. We are to be the farmers sowing with the seeds of creativity and service into the dirt of our lives. All the while anticipating the rains to come and sun pull the proverbial blooms from the Earth.
Remove any of the above – the farmer, the dirt, the seeds, the rain, the sun – and reality becomes very different.
Lucky farmer is an oxymoron.
Fruition and fulfillment is always realized after a series, a season, and often a lifetime of ‘again and again’.
You don’t want to know how many range balls Speith has slapped. Most likely it’s more than 99.9999% of the Earth’s population.
And it’s a safe bet that he’s not even passed the honeymoon in his marriage to the driving range.
Mastery is always preceded by the small and unnoticed ‘again and again’.
Wherever this finds you, don’t stop now.
Ashton.Gustafson 
