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Dec 12 2011
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Business, Creativity, Leadership

Roses

Nature has a beautiful way of showing us how things really are.

For instance, let’s look at a rose.

Behind the beauty and aroma of every rose is a grueling and systematic process. Before the rose can be in a vase, there is a lot of work to be done.

First, the dirt had to be tilled, then a bush had to be planted, then the bush had to be watered, then the bush had to be sun-baked, then the stems had to be pruned, next the rose buds, and finally the rose blooms.

See the rules? See the process? This is botany meets sheet music. Remove any of these steps and you’re roseless.

Things of beauty are rarely happenstance and are quite difficult for a fast-food society to grasp.

So you want the world to stop and smell your roses?

Go till the soil today. Then plant something today. Then water that something today. Then…

Roses are results of work that happened yesterday and they beg us to do work today that matters.

Our families, churches, and businesses will never bloom until we get some dirt under our fingernails.

2 Lesson Points:

1) Yesterday was your best day to plant, but it is over. Today is now your best bet. Tomorrow is unacceptable.

2) You are going to want some roses in the spring, and yelling at the dirt won’t make that happen when April comes around.

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Dec 09 2011
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The Ways Of Love Are The Way To Music

Love never gives up.   

Love cares more for others than for self.   

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.   

Love doesn’t strut,   

Doesn’t have a swelled head,   

Doesn’t force itself on others,   

Isn’t always “me first,”   

Doesn’t fly off the handle,   

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,   

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,   

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,   

Puts up with anything,   

Trusts God always,   

Always looks for the best,   

Never looks back,   

But keeps going to the end.  The Message 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now we can answers Tina Turner’s question.

What’s love got to do with it? Everything.

Love is in the business of challenging the status quo.

Without it our souls, our businesses, and our lives are bankrupt.

With it we can orchestrate wonderful music and the world around us will join in with song and dance.

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Nov 30 2011
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Mud Puddles and Oceans

Utilizing our imagination reduces the chances for the mundane to creep into our lives.

The minute creativity and newness leaves our lives, businesses, and families we allow the water to get stagnant.

No matter the area of our live’s we look into, if “that’s how we’ve always done it” is the chorus in our music – soon that music will stop.

“That’s how we’ve always done it” puts us knee-deep in inescapable mud.

“What if we….? Could it be…? Imagine what the world would be like if……..” – These questions drop us in the deep blue waters of Capri.

Mud puddles are lame. Crashing waves, on the other hand – I can get lost in those all day.

The question is not how can I utilize my imagination better,  but where does imagination gets its spark from? I’m not too sure, but I tend to feel the rays of her warmth every time I question, every time I challenge the status quo, and every time I stop and listen.

An eager ear given to a small seashell just may be able to unlock the secrets of the ocean your trying to decode.

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Nov 29 2011
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We Need You

“The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music is my metaphor for successful living. When we get out of bed everyday, pursue our values, engage our passions, and challenge the status quo – the result is a a life of beautiful and unique music.

This comes in many forms: a job well done, a child well loved, a paper well written, a garden well grown, or actually – a song well written.

I don’t want to die with my music still in me, and I don’t want that for you either.

Your family longs to hear your music.

Your clients love to experience your music.

The world is waiting to be moved by your music.

No one else can write the music we need from you like you can.

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Nov 23 2011
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Music to my ears.

“…._______ is music to my ears.”

The most important part in the previous sentence is the “blank“________. The goal of every leader, husband, and dad is to determine what that “blank” is and provide a means to fill it. Fill in the blank and music enters the recipient’s ears.

The first commandment is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” God asks for the blank to be filled with us loving with heart, soul, mind, and strength – THAT is music to His ears.

This leads to an interesting take on the second commandment, The Golden Rule. When you love your neighbor as yourself, you leave your shoes, enter your neighbors shoes, and ask “would that, fill in the blank, be music these shoes would dance to?”

A husband that loves his wife like he loves himself, a dad that loves his daughter like he loves himself, and a leader that loves his customer like he loves himself composes music that his wife, daughter, and client have no choice but to moonwalk to.

The scriptures claim “There is no commandment greater than these.” Focus on these two commandments and the music will play.

He who fills in the blank is bestowed the title of maestro – and any business, parenting, and relationship plan that follows this blueprint wins.

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