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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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Jan 13 2016
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art, Awareness, Business, Creativity, Discipline, Leadership, success

Your Human Thumbprint > Your Digital Footprint

Have you ever received a thank you note for a retweet? Not likely.

Has anyone ever told you that you clicking a like button changed them? Probably not.

But do you remember a time when someone told you something they see in you? If so, I would bet that you replay that moment quite often in your head.

Can you picture the face of someone that has done something for you that you could never do for them? If so, they’re probably registered in your memory bank under the label ‘hero’.

The digital world is wonderful and a world without geographic barriers is extraordinary, but it’s moving at the speed of light and can be hard to catch your breath and take it all in. It’s here in a flash and scrolled over in sixty seconds.

And then there’s the art of being human…the surrendering from the rat race so we can waltz back to how things are, and actually, how they’ve always been. And that opportunity to lead, connect, and change someone is here today and stays with you and us forever.

 

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Jan 07 2016
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art, Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Leadership

What’s the last book you read?

Have you noticed what it has given you eyes to see?

Have you seen how it gave you something to give someone else?

And isn’t that what we all want???? To see reality more clearly and to somehow be a gift in our world?

Seems like the reading, triggers remembering, that triggers responding.

Pass it on.

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Jan 05 2016
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art, Awareness, Books, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

Fast, Faster, and Fastest.

Which one of these do you need to get to or become?

And what if these f words weren’t so much about competing, but were more focused on the speed at which you show up and become human?

What if you became fast to listen?

What if you became faster at giving the world and those in your world an A?

And what if you were known as the fastest to forgive?

The bandwidth of humanity has always been a speed that changes the end user or recipient. And it sure does appear that change just may be the moral of all our stories.

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Dec 25 2015
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How high can you count?

Everyday you’re counting something.

Question…on the average day what are you typically counting in your head before you fall asleep? Bad drivers? Offenders? Cash on hand? Calories? To dos, ta-das, or do-overs? The thing is, even when you get to infinity, there’s still another number that can go higher…infinity one, infinity two, etc.

This world of measurement leads to all forms of downward spiral thinking and living: us vs. them, greater than less than, insider/outsider, good guys-bad guys, worthy and unworthy, fame and shame…you get the picture.

Then there are those experiences that we forget to measure, but they’re always being noticed and tallied in the, often unnoticed, radars of our bodies and souls.  Things like love, beauty, impact, hope, connection, and joy. The things that strike the chord deep within us.

Here, with these things, is where measurement becomes something different altogether. The cup that we start to measure with wonderfully increases capacity. The scale just says ‘yes’. The numbers we count by are the numbers ‘again’ and ‘again’. Yes, this is an ocean that only gets deeper with waves that only get better in water that only becomes more pleasant. And the weather here always suits the soul’s palate for that day.

We all want to unwrap something ‘more’ today and in all of our tomorrows, but more doesn’t need to be numeric or divisive.

More and more of less and less. Lighter and brighter. Music over noise.

Merry Christmas.

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