…you’ve chosen to not be original.
This choice will numb the moment, but will also bring an aching regret down the road.
Ideas that move us to joy and tears and lives that lead us to change for the better are always original.
So for you, and for us, please bring us something new, sing us something fresh, and give us what only you can give.
There’s a first for everything and when it comes to you there will never be a second.
I am so thrilled to have Jay Papasan in Episode 17 @ Let The Music Play. Jay is a bestselling author, Vice President of Rellek Publishing, co-owner of Keller Capital, and co-owner, alongside his wife Wendy, of Papasan Properties Group with Keller Williams Realty in Austin, Texas. The books he’s helped craft have collectively sold over 8 million copies. His most recent work with Gary Keller on The ONE Thing has sold over half a million copies worldwide and garnered more than 350 appearances on national bestseller lists, including #1 on The Wall Street Journal’s hardcover business list.
No matter your role or current stage of life, this is a conversation that will help you get more purpose, more meaning, and more fulfillment out of your days.
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Enjoy and remember to share this with those you love and lead!
Don’t ask for it.
Don’t push for it.
If you ask for it and if you push for it, you just may get it. And that’s not the it you’re truly after.
However, when it arrives in its own unique and non-prefabricated way, that reassurance will allow you to rest assured that you’re on something.
This will make a lot more sense the next time you’re about to ask for it and next time you’re blind-sided by it.
It should be a gift to you, the recipient, not a request.
“No thank you.”
There probably isn’t a more freeing and, simultaneously, foreign phrase in our vernacular.
This will save us. And we can say it with grace.
Another yes leads to another commitment. Another yes heals immediate pain, but fortunes future frustration. Another yes can become another distraction. Another yes could, even with the best intentions, create another yes or no scenario.
Then there’s no. It can center us, re-align us, and steady the beat of our music which is our divine yes.
In the end I’m not sure if we’re known more by what we say yes to or more by what we say no to, but it appears that more and more yes’s stretch us thinner and thinner and more and more no’s empower us to interact and experience our truest widths and most meaningful depths.
“No thank you.” Try it on for size….
Have you ever received a thank you note for a retweet? Not likely.
Has anyone ever told you that you clicking a like button changed them? Probably not.
But do you remember a time when someone told you something they see in you? If so, I would bet that you replay that moment quite often in your head.
Can you picture the face of someone that has done something for you that you could never do for them? If so, they’re probably registered in your memory bank under the label ‘hero’.
The digital world is wonderful and a world without geographic barriers is extraordinary, but it’s moving at the speed of light and can be hard to catch your breath and take it all in. It’s here in a flash and scrolled over in sixty seconds.
And then there’s the art of being human…the surrendering from the rat race so we can waltz back to how things are, and actually, how they’ve always been. And that opportunity to lead, connect, and change someone is here today and stays with you and us forever.
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