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You Saw It, You Just Missed It

Your hand is on a computer mouse, smart phone, keyboard, or laptop right now. Have you blocked that fact out? Jobs saw this coming in the 80’s while hacking away in his garage.

There’s probably a lightbulb buzzing around you right now. Did you miss that? Edison sat in the dark and saw this moment for us in 1879.

The rising sun is casting neon rays against the clouds and across the horizon. Did you catch that? Or was it blotted out by a Starbucks sign? Could you capture that beauty and put a fraction of it into what you make today?

The rose is in bloom. Are you?

And people. What about people? What about souls? Are they data and statistics? Or are they the ocean of your experience?

Most often, it’s not that you can’t see what’s around you. Oh you can see alright! Rather, it’s simply that you’re not looking. Or, you’re not looking for the right things in the odd and rare places they can found.

Look.

Whatever you’re looking for, you can find it anywhere. And typically, when we’re looking for something we see it everywhere.

So the BIG question is what are you looking for? Hope? A pity party? Passion? Joy? Profit? A deal? The next rung on the ladder? Measurement? Yourself? Experience? Meaning?

In a world powered by your music, we give all too much attention to the noise around us.

Before I hit publish I prayed that you would have whatever moment, person, experience, or thought you need to see today.

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A Mind Of Abundance

No matter the area of your life (time, money, friends, family, creativity), do you tell yourself there’s not enough?

Or…

Do you notice the overflow or potential for overflow in such areas?

Whatever we look for, we tend to find.

Everything changes when we decisively choose to see the abundance that surrounds us.

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Fiction or Non-Fiction?

Is this fiction or non-fiction?

That’s a great question for our moments of thought and vision.

Asked another way, are we seeing things as they truly are or as we choose to see them?

Seeing fictionally is typically grounded in assumptions of others, things, and circumstances.

On the other hand, seeing non-fictionally requires empathy, pause, and bravery – there is no harder work out there.

Take a moment to step out of your story. Revisit the past pages and then please dive head first back into the non-fiction you gleaned from your pause.

Sometimes we must actively step out of our story to read it and find the character we’re becoming.

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Vision 2012

I arrived at Baylor University in the academic year of 2001-2002. This was the year the university released it’s somewhat unpopular Vision 2012.

One of the vision goals was to become competitive in all sports. It is now 2012 and this year Baylor University has:

  • Won the Alamo Bowl
  • Received its first Heisman Award Winner
  • Finished #11 in Football final rankings
  • Won National Championship in Women’s Basketball
  • Men’s Basketball made it to Elite 8
  • Men’s Baseball has just won 24 games in a row and broke the Big 12 record for conference wins in a row.

The Scriptures explain “where is no vision the people perish.”  And where there is vision, the possibilities are endless.

When you tell the world where you are going somehow it tends to start clearing a way for you.

Vision has quickly become a consistent topic here at LTMPblog.com. I’m constantly reminded I need more of it.

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