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Jun 23 2016
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music

Podcast 25 with Jamey Ice

Jamey Ice is a humanitarian, husband, father, entrepreneur, and the lead guitarist of Green River Ordinance from Fort Worth, TX. With a heart fueled with love and soul curated by curiosity, Jamey joins us to share the insight and wisdom gained by living a life that connects his joy to community, enterprise, and philanthropy.

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For more information on Jamey, Green River Ordinance, and his other projects we discuss in the podcast, see the links below.

The Ice’s 

Green River Ordinance 

Brewed

6th Avenue Homes

The NET

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Godspeed and #LetTheMusicPlay,

Ashton

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Jun 22 2016
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art, Leadership

Stories, Choices, and Values.

With each new moment we walk into a story begins. It’s a story about a choice and it’s a story about choosing to interact with the ideals that we hold high and value.

Prayer is a story about a choice and something you value.

So is stillness.

So is action.

And so is an unnecessary reaction. That’s a story about a choice and a value too.

What if the fives senses were to become things we valued instead of forgotten gifts we unknowingly experienced?

For instance, what if we valued feeling the love, seeing the beauty, smelling the proverbial roses, tasting the moment, and touching the heart?

Most likely our choices would change first and then so would our stories.

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Jun 20 2016
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Gladdening the Mind > Losing the Mind

Mondays are typically anything but soulful. Between a myriad of missed calls, stacked to-do’s from the weekend, and an inbox full of Black Cats, we tend to begin our weeks in a state of heaviness in-lieu of one of openness and lightness.

Try this…gladden your mind.

On paper, write something small and human that brings you immense joy and that you can hold on to today. Or in your heart space, hold the people and ideas that light up your life for thirty seconds. Quickly, this will cause the Monday mind frown to turn upside down.

Once the mind is gladdened it’s a lot harder to lose it.

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Jun 13 2016
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Little Acts and Big Shifts

Cooking a meal — There’s fast food and there’s slow food. One satisfies a craving and the other satisfies the soul. As long as your phone isn’t nearby, you just might find some peace chopping vegetables and you may even enter a rhythm of being that’s quite serene and wonderfully human.

Smiling at strangers — Try this out for size. We’re not so strange after a gratuitous acknowledgment of the other’s presence.

Writing, stamping, and mailing a handwritten note — Over 3,000 times today  you were sold something. How many times today were you told something in handwritten ink on paper? I rest my case.

Look and SEE — There’s looking and then there’s seeing. I don’t think we see if we’re not looking. Try out a game of ‘I Spy’ in your life, relationships, and business.

Be Silent and Still for two to ten minutes — Try out Headspace for 10 days. When you learn to see and hear the noise you’ll find how to navigate around it and through it. When’s the last time you simply sat still? This will shift things for you.

 

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Jun 09 2016
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art, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Leadership

Patterns and a Questions

Look around at the patterns that surround us.

The sun comes up. The sun goes down.

There’s day. There’s night.

Four seasons continually turn into each other and repeat the process.

The thing that holds the thing that holds the thing we are in is expanding.

What could this be telling us?

What is this saying about the foundations of our reality?

Are there a great rhythms to great truth?

And, if so, are we waltzing with them?

So much in our overlooked peripherals is whispering, “Like this.”

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