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May 22 2015
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Leadership

Current Reading List

The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring – by Parker J. Palmer

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If found Palmer’s thoughts on action to be very enlightening. I’m seeing a lot better after these words and will for sure reread again very soon.

Walden; on, Life in the Woods – by Henry David Thoreau

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I know I’m late to the ball on this one, but it’s beautiful. I’m not sure if something can become more true as it ages, but it appears that these words are waltzing into our modern world like wine.

Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair – by Anne Lamott

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I think we sow for ourselves a blanket over time with our experiences and insight we gather throughout our days. Everyday gathering another piece of a meaning, hope, and joy to stitch to the blanket we’ve been sowing all our lives. My blanket is bigger and my soul is warmer after I read Anne’s words.

If you don’t read and these titles don’t interest you, no worries. But I ask you to give something a shot. Google the galaxies, check out a TED talk, and just find a way to get curious about something. I think you’ll find that the more dots you find, the more dots you’ll connect.

And it’s all connected.

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May 20 2015
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Imagination, Leadership

Dear College Grad,

You can use your notes now.

Just don’t forget to be writing them down.

Regards,

Your tomorrows

PS – Don’t forget to watch Letterman tonight.

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May 20 2015
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Awareness, Books, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, success

The Tree @ 2305 Speedway

There’s a tree at 2305 Speedway, the home I grew up in, that still bears the carvings I engraved into it as young boy.

That tree is now a metaphor that I think about quite often.

Few things will carve deeper into the souls we cross, the moments we experience, and the days we’re given than the music we create and offer back to the universe.

And while we’re on the subject of trees, here’s a beautiful writing on the slow and enlightening beauty that trees give us.

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May 19 2015
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Awareness, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Dis-covering.

When you see things as they are – not as you want them to be – you are removing their cover and coming to know them fully and see the language, meaning, and truths under their skin. 

Purple is hard to know without first understanding red and blue. 

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May 15 2015
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Awareness, Business

8 Seconds

Here is an interesting article by Jeremy Finch in Fast Company that is an eye opening look into Generation Z.

Didn’t know there was a generation Z? Get to know them. By 2020, they will make up 40% of all consumers.

Finch writes, It’s critical that we recognize Gen Z’s differences and meet them where they are, rather than where we want them to be. Without empathy and understanding, brands risk being filtered into obscurity. As writer Logan Pearsall Smith put it nearly 100 years ago: “Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.”

This is definitely an interesting thought following up last week’s conversation on Millennials.

The best thing any of us can do – for any generation – is awaken the music inside of them…and it appears we may only have 8 seconds in the potential awakening with Z.

We’ll always be looking for a face when we haven’t found our music.

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