My Job

May 7, 2010

My job is a function of the world I’m in.
The world evolves.  A series of events over time impact each other, causing new events and the resulting evolution.
I’m an event in this evolution.
I encounter other events in my life.
As I encounter these events I can recoil, dig in, and hold on to the world I [...]

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Which would you rather have, Perspective or Ability?

April 22, 2010

Perspective: by definition is a diversity of perspectives. To have perspective is to be able to see a thing in multiple ways. This trumps ability.
Having perspective helps me direct where and when I need the ability, and how to achieve what I want if my ability isn’t as high as it [...]

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Framing

April 20, 2010

My friend Marshall Thurber says “We are framing machines.”
In other words – we spend our lives creating the experience of the people we interact with, as well as ourselves.
the winner is the one who sees the frame coming, and who can choose the frame to live from, and who can resist and shake off [...]

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Happiness is …

April 18, 2010

We’re each born into this life;
and are each given specific gifts and talents.
The gifts do us no good if we keep them to ourselves.
Yet by expressing these gifts, we feel happiness and joy.
So life is a series of stages for us to express our gifts and talents: to share them with our world.
When we do [...]

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Why we love stories

April 14, 2010

As kids we love dolls because they are reflections of the world we know and are aware of.
As toddlers we don’t like Barbies or GI Joes or Basketball because those experiences are outside of our awareness – and therefor  don’t resonate with us…but dolls, trucks, balls, animals – these are all part of our awareness [...]

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What’s this story about?

April 14, 2010

By accident of birth, we’re born into a set of circumstances.
These are the first props in the story of our lives.
The best stories start out seemingly about one thing – but at some point it becomes apparent that really, the story is about something else: something completely different and much more relevant, meaningful and valuable.
So I’m [...]

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What you need to know about luck

February 5, 2010

“Good luck tends to follow the same people – thats because there’s no such ting as luck.”
“Bad Luck tends to follow the same people – thats because there’s no such thing as luck.”
This was a quote from a teacher at a local high school.
Unseen focus, determination and work patterns lead to opportunities for chance to [...]

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Daily checklist

February 4, 2010

The alarm goes off – its too early and you hurt too much to start your day; but you have no choice.
Want to have a great day – run through the checklist to make sure you’re in tune with how you’ll greet the moments of your day…
___  Enthusiasm? – check!
___  ready to contribute? – check!
___ [...]

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Rule number 6

February 4, 2010

In a great book called The Art of Possibility, by Benjamin and Rosamunda Zander, Ben talks about Rule Number 6.
Rule number 6 is to not take yourself or situation too seriously.
Feelings of fear, avoidance, indignation, righteousness are all indications that I may have forgotten to apply this rule.  Some of these feelings are valid some of the [...]

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The purpose of the status quo

February 3, 2010

The status quo exists for us to respond to.
It’s a blank slate that’s ours to draw on, a lump of clay that’s ours to mold.
This is what the human race has done with nature for centuries:  cleared fields, diverted streams, dammed rivers, chopped down forests, paved millions of square miles of earth for roads and [...]

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