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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 13 2016
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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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May 30 2016
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“Help me understand.”

This is a beautiful way to lead…

…a lovely way to live…

…and a humble way to keep curios.

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May 17 2016
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Awareness, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Another > Other

The dualistic mind loves to divide, separate, label, and categorize everything and everyone. It’s a constant tug of war between good/bad, up/down, left/right, in/out, win/lose, & us/them. As long as ‘other’ is in dialogue, the dualistic mind is at peace. Or so it thinks.

However, the soul only knows things in their entirety, embraces beauty as a whole, and is most at home in states of harmony and communion. Somehow it knows there’s a oneness with fire and rain, winter and spring, noise and music, and even with the separation of individual solitudes.

What if we all weren’t something ‘other’ to be labeled, but we each were ‘another’ form of love?

What if that were true?

What if that was a question you asked often?

Surely, we would enjoy more than we would critique, we would engage more than we would isolate, and we would rest in our individual and unique beings more than we would boast about our momentary doings.

So today…

As you jog by the stranger…see them as another form.

As you hold the door for one with their hands full…enjoy them as another form.

As you are waited on…learn from another form.

As you are cut off in traffic…forgive another form.

As you are misunderstood….love another, misunderstood, form.

And as you do what you do from the depth of who you are be another form of the great Love that is the engine to our universe.

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Mar 14 2016
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art, Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Multiplication and Division

You can approach your moments and your days with one of two postures.

The first posture is one of multiplication. Here you seek to enlarge your worldview, raise up those around you, experience and pursue growth, and increase your overall awareness. Another aspect of beauty also unfolds simultaneously here as you grow your capacities which further insures your ability to hold MORE of your approaching experiences. If you were to graph this posture, the trajectory would be up and to the right via hand-holding unity. If you were to pie chart this posture, the entire pie would be growing, not just your piece/good/worldview.

The other choice is a posture of division. Here, everything becomes an opportunity for some form of divisive warfare with opinionated guns shooting scare tactic bullets. The major problem here is that not only are you dividing everything and everybody, but you also are divided…which means we don’t get ALL of you.

Question: Why would you choose to ‘divvy’ out nametags showcasing another’s difference over handing out permission slips encouraging one’s divine uniqueness?

Alas, may we be the kind of people that multiply, enlarge, and grow those we come into contact with.

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