Tag Archives: No

Jan 19 2016
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Awareness, Leadership

No Thank You: Our Saving Grace

“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….

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May 09 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Leadership, success

The Most Productive Word…

is no.

That’s tough, though, when we want to, and at some point need to, say yes to email, text, people, friends, relationships, golf, twitter, and for some of you – The Kardashians. The need to be kept up with, right?

This is where noise comes in. Noise is the byproduct of giving into your wants at the inappropriate time. Noise is anything that robs your musical moments. Noise is out for itself, and ridiculously jealous of your music. Noise knows nothing of meaning or fulfillment.

Look at that…no is the first two letters of noise (just saw that….interesting).

Music, on the other hand, comes from doing what you have to do when you have to do it.

To give proper attention to the music we all long to make, we must say no to noise.

No song ever wrote itself.

No goal was ever obtained through occasional proper action.

So in a world that appears to have a million yes boxes to check off, where does one start?

Shrink.

Go small.

Have one box to check. Say no to the other 999,999 boxes.

Smaller worlds lead to bigger lives and even bigger music.

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