and it’s easy to miss what it’s saying.
Two ears, two eyes, and one mouth is a great place of realization to start with your marketing plan.
Once you understand the the 4:1 ratio you came equipped with, you may then have a better chance of seeing, hearing, and receiving the memo.
Wide is quite easy to achieve today.
With the right amount of social creatine, your reach can be awfully wide, but it may feel like this.
And then there’s the significant relevance that goes deep.
The kind that involves time, the art of being human, and the hard – and not always rewarded – work of leadership. Also, known as relevance that lasts, touches, inspires, and is shared.
Wherever you and or your business is heading, in the end, it will be about the meaning in the marrow, the conscience of what is core, and in gathering the notes of what you value that they may center in harmony.
I’m I Did > I wish I had…..this is all about going deep over going wide.
Just ask the trees.
‘I understand’…the word for that is camaraderie.
The breath in our lungs..the word for that is grace.
The electricity of uncertainty…the word for that is possibility.
Something from no-thing…the word for that is art.
Then there is the word that becomes a sentence that becomes a song…the word for that is you.
Since our office is with moments, let us husband them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be a cynic, there’s plenty to be cynical about.
If you want to be a pessimist, there’s plenty to be pessimistic about.
You may choose or have chosen this in the past, but I don’t think that’s what you’re truly after.
The further and longer you look into the cosmos – which you are in by the way – the more you start to hear, feel, and see it all as a poem…not a problem and not an algorithm.
If you want to live fully, thrive in the highest sense, and reap the satisfaction of active participation with the present moment before you then simply ask your moments to share with you where you belong in the mix.
There will be your place.
And that place will most likely be some form or feeling synonymous with joy.
Two things we want from our moments and days: belonging and joy.
Ask and you shall receive.
A few weeks ago I found great clarity in the idea that we must make room in our lives so that we may soak in more of the beauty that we’re here to behold.
This conversation was about consumption, culture supply and soul demand, our social and existential diets, and gaining awareness to just how much of our days are being robbed by the backlit screens on our desks, on our walls, and in our pockets.
I took a new novel to a sports bar tonight. It was weird. But it was the kind of weird that was reverent and right.
I heard last week about a friend who had entrepreneurs over for a special dinner. The goal was to connect these leaders and share with them the purpose of her company in their community. They ate sitting on the floor, discussed four specific words, and heard each other for the evening. I assume it was weird watching everyone squat with a plate and then in the next millisecond I bet it was reverent and right.
Stuff to fill the gaps is in full supply. We call these ‘feeds’. But what’s being supplied isn’t filling us as it feeds us.
It’s in the empty space where the true reflection on our days and lives is had. It’s in vacant moments – the sunsets – the quiet – the jog – the garden – the turning of the page – prayer – meditation – where the soul quenches its demand for transcendence. Make room for empty, don’t run from it. Give reverence some space and watch what unfolds.
The next time your anywhere with many people just look around. And then think of this bug zapper photo below. It’s a scary honest metaphor of what’s happening to us.
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