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Oct 07 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

The Reflections That Lay Over Us Today and Shadow Our Tomorrows

Daily success is about chiseling, refining, and then moving towards incremental change because of the awareness gained in the reflection of what was chiseled and refined.

An artist sees that ‘this’ points to ‘that’, he notices undertones, he sees calm in chaos, he makes note of hints, and he never steps out of his symphonic experience. He knows the music is everywhere with just one price per ticket: attention.

Great days are pushed with whimsical reflection from yesterday and pulled by inspired shadows cast over an unseen tomorrow.

Be pushed and be pulled today. For it is in this balance, this yen and yang, that we arrive at days we can call great.

Yesterday wants to know it was worth it, today wants its fulfillment, and tomorrow needs you to pull back the drapes.

It’s good to be back.

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Sep 25 2013
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Unheard of. Unseen. Unbelievable.

Leadership is creative innovation that leads to meaningful change.

Dig deep.

Get lost in the stars.

Look inside of yourself and capture your greatness.

Bring us the unheard of and things never seen before that will take us to places we won’t believe.

We’ll come back again and again for such an experience.

Can you say ‘business model’?

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Sep 18 2013
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Smarts & The Road To Superfluous

You were labeled ‘smart’ when I grew up by being able to regurgitate off the cuff how things are and you could recite things that we already knew to be true. Smarts equaled memorization of the past and an understanding of the proven. The smart students understood photosynthesis, could work a mean algebraic problem, and never were outed with having to spell superfluous in the spelling bee.

But look at who we’re referring to (and they most definitely are) as smart today. They are mostly people who take the instruments of creativity and innovation and, with those, make the music of change.

Pat yourself on the back if you know how things are and what has happened up until now. Rest assured, knowing that 1492 rhymes with ocean blue and the historical implications of such a riddle has done nothing for me on this side of academia.

On the flip side, you’ll get patted on the back by showing us how things are going to be. They’ll probably call you ‘smart’ too.

I’m not here to define what smart is. That’s an unnecessary journey. I just know that whatever it is, it points to change and a revelation of the future.

We need you to hold our hand as we walk into tomorrow.

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Sep 17 2013
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What’s Your Musical Consensus?

Look up the word consensus and you’ll find it is synonymous with the word harmony.

If you know the experience, meaning, purpose, and fulfillment for your life, you then know the instruments that make the harmony of your life’s music. In other words, you have a consensus on what your music is.

Jean-Jacques Nattiez once said, “in short, there is rarely a consensus …By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.” True – the world may not be able to agree on defining what music truly is, but I believe, independently, we all can have a consensus. No, we must have a consensus.

Your music is not mine and my music is not yours, but collectively we must celebrate and cheer each other on in the art of making it, defining it, and bringing it into the world.

Want to know why you are here? Go define music and there will be your answer.

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Aug 09 2013
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What Is Priceless?

Whatever your answer is, therein lies what must be the pursuit of your days, life, family, and business.

I’ve chosen three priceless pursuits…experience, meaning, and fulfillment.

Which then leads to another question: What’s the cost in not pursuing such things?

I’m afraid none of us have deep enough pockets to answer that question.

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