You Don’t Have To Start At The Beginning

If someone traveled here from two hundred years ago and started learning about cell phones and asked you which one they should get…you wouldn’t make them start with a Motorola flip phone or a Nokia just because that’s what you started with.

No. You would direct them to the newest iPhone.

And they would be smart to listen to you. It would be silly for them to start at the beginning of cell phones.


When we find (trusted) people with the insight to bring us up to speed with a better method, insight, connection, it’s worth ditching the old one.

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On A Regular Basis

That’s the way to roll out content.

That’s the way to connect in the culture.

You get to decide what regular means in your world…but it’s not an album every two years.

Music is the best thing you’ve got (even more foundational than videos and updates) and its simpler than ever to get it to your people. Released music is where everything swells from.

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Leaky Pipes

Busy-ness, money, success, recognition cover a multitude of leaky pipes and bad wiring.

i.e. We’re getting what we want right now, ignore the shortfalls.

But as we know, leaky pipes and bad wiring get worse over time. It’s not fun to pause and fix them but it’s probably essential to the longevity of what you’re building.

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Just Because You’re Talking...

…doesn’t mean anyone is interested.

Just because it’s fun to sing it doesn’t mean it’s fun to hear it.

Just because you put all your blood sweat and tears in doesn’t mean anyone is going to buy it.

When we take a hobby outside of our bedroom, to make a career of it, we have to grow our focus from ‘me’ to ‘us’. Us is the connection, the timing, the culture, the extra.

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Smart Compromise

If you make it to the top of the mountain it will be because you made smart compromises in regards to your original vision.

Because we all know you don’t make it to the top of the mountain by yourself.

But more than trying to figure out ‘what compromises are you going to make’, I think it’s ‘who are you going to compromise along side of’ AND ‘which top of the mountain are you willing to compromise for’.

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The Scale Of Feeling Like It

Chances are the first time you wrote a song or a poem or a thank you card, you felt like doing it.

Once you’ve sat down and written ten times, sometimes you felt like it (like you did the first time) and sometimes maybe not quite as much but you did it anyway.

When you’ve written a hundred times, there really starts to be a wide range of ‘feeling like it’. Times when you were really pumped, sometimes not pumped at all, a lot of times somewhere in between.

Where you’re at on the scale of Feeling Like It begins to matter less and less as to whether or not you write.

When you’ve written a thousand times, the scale of Feeling Like It is pretty irrelevant. You’ve felt every point on the scale and written anyway. You’ve been there done that. You’ve shown up inspired and uninspired and gotten down to business in the face of how you feel.

So keep feeling like it or not feeling like it or somewhere in between, but keep going. Keep writing.

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