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Jun 23 2016

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.

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Green River Ordinance

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Ashton

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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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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.