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Beautiful = Right

Beauty, at its core, stands for and means that which is right. Not the kind of beauty that is graded in Miss America pageants, but the kind that unfolds in moments of awe.

The next time you hear someone say “look how beautiful” – think of them saying “look how right.” That, after all, is what they’re trying to convey when they’re lost in orchids, sunsets, mountains, or a child’s laughter, right? Such rightness makes us tremble.

So we give…we give ourself to pointing out, outlining, exposing, sharing and creating this kind of beauty. For her role is endless. She’s needed in our businesses, she’s now a must in our products, she is service, she sings in our art, she’s the one special part of our latest favorite song, she’s the purpose of poetry, and she makes our head nod up and down in our fulfillment.

When you get it right you’ve got yourself something beautiful. And when you’ve created beauty you’ve done something right.

Beauty is the universal agreement to such rightness. Put her into all things.

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Fun Fact

The freedom of doing what you want to do is always preceded by doing something you probably didn’t want to do.

Sowing precedes the harvest, the grind proceeds results, and no fun precedes fun.

Go do something that 99 out of 100 people won’t do and you’ll find yourself having more fun than 99 out of 100 people.

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How Did I Get Here?

When we find ourselves asking this question, in a negative sense, it’s almost always due to a lack of pause in our days and awareness to what’s been unfolding around us.

Measure.

Measure.

Measure.

Measure.

Galileo Galilei said it best. Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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Defining Need.

Business school did a great job of pounding into our heads that we were to leave, go find a need, and find a way to fulfill it.

The challenge now is in wrapping our hands around the ever-evolving definition of need.

We’re finding that the further we travel up Maslow’s pyramid the more difficult it is to put our thumb on and fulfill these needs.

Could it be that the postmodern entrepreneur’s role and responsibility is to build lodging at the top of pyramid for his customers and co-workers?

I think so.

Experience, connection, and meaning has to be the aroma, sound, feeling, and taste of whatever we build from here on out.

If you look around, that’s where we’re as hungry as we we’ve ever been.

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A Bicycle Took Us To The Moon

The Wright Brother’s story of flight is awesome, entrepreneurial,
inspiring, and heroic. We all know they tried and tried and
tried…and finally created liftoff.

But did you know they actually started out manufacturing bicycles
before they made and thought about their aircraft? That’s right. A
dream to pedal more efficiently to the local super-market created a
dream that eventually got us to the moon.

Quick thoughts:

Don’t pedal so fast you miss your dream in the clouds.

If you’re bored on your Monday bicycle then find a way to put some wings on it.

Achieved dreams lead to other dreams.

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