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Finding Your Swing

Watching Lefty win yesterday was quite refreshing. His score of five under baffled his fellow players. But not Phil. He found his swing. You could see it in his whole persona.

This reminded me of words from The Legend of Bagger Vance.  Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing… Somethin’ we was born with… Somethin’ that’s ours and ours alone… Somethin’ that can’t be taught to ya or learned… Somethin’ that’s got to be remembered… Over time the world can, rob us of that swing… It gets buried inside us under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas… Some folks even forget what their swing was like.

Your music is found and made in your swing. And if you’re lost, your swing will guide you to your music.

Here’s the catch. None of us know how many practice swings it took Phil to hoist that trophy yesterday.

And the one guy that does know???? He’s the one holding the trophy.

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Working Backwards

All things, including our lives and our businesses, were never meant to be about us.

A funny thing happens when we start with the needs of others and go create, cultivate, and work in our businesses from there…and by funny I mean the world becomes a better place.

The old model was this: Start with you and go do something from the there. Thanks to mass market advertising this worked.

However, the new model that is working is backwards: Start with the customer and go do something for them from there.

A lot is changing, but finding a group need and fulfilling it is still very much in style.

To move forward we all need to work backwards in the new model.

Truth > Trend.

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Like that guy…

Why do it like the guy in the next cubicle?

Why do it like the last guy that came before you?

We’ve seen him – noticed him – and he holds that spot in our minds.

That’s his spot – not yours.

But you’re different.

Your eye sees differently.

Your pen writes differently.

Your words flow differently.

Your style is stylish because it’s different.

When you are different everyone sees it. They see it because it’s hard to miss different in a world of normal.

We don’t need more and more of what we already have.

That’s where you come in.

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Angels In Marble

Michelangelo once noted about his David masterpiece saying, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

For many, our days are nothing more than a big marble block…heavy, burdensome, or simply a rock that weighs one down or must be climbed over.

I’m calling you out and asking you to find the angel in your Monday marble.

See him. What was seen as weight is now viewed as opportunity.

Listen to him. He beckons action.

Chip. Hammer. Chip. Hammer. Set him free.

May the Muse this day give us eyes to see the hidden and maybe even shy, but pleading angels in our marble blocks.

Their (angel) freedom is your fulfillment.

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What Are You Avoiding?

Could it be that the that thing you are least interested in doing is the most important thing you could be doing?

Meet the challenge.

Overcome the fear.

Success is probably summed up best in being defined as the road less traveled.

Don’t go to work just to avoid it.

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