People Are Doing...

everything you can possibly think of.

Restoring old furniture. Coming up with a better cheeseburger. Working on a cancer cure. Painting a house. Reading the news. Designing the next style of pants. Teaching kids. Building a band.

Who are you going to join? 

What are you going to build and invite others to join?

You can’t join everything and not everyone is going to join you.

So what will you choose? 

Maybe more importantly, what will you say no to? Because you're going to have to say no to most of it.

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Springboard Of Freedom

Being comfortable on stage is not the goal to display to the audience.

They expect you to be comfortable, now you have to do something with it.

Experience can get you comfort. Comfort can be a crutch that breeds mediocrity or it can be a springboard of freedom that opens you up to connect in the way that only you can.

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Construction Workers

The construction workers who built the house I’m sitting in and the ones who built the place you’re sitting in would take a lunch break everyday they were building.

After that lunch break they didn’t really feel like going back to work.

But they did anyway. And I’m glad they did.

Keep doing good work. It matters. It extends way beyond where you think it does.

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My League

Out of my league

vs

Not my league

The difference brings so much clarity.

Out of my league means you believe in your own stuckness, that there’s a better league but yours is inferior.

Not my league means you have chosen your league and are perfectly content that your league doesn’t include everyone.

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Another Way To Say It

That’s what we’re all doing. The ideas we’re all expressing and pedaling and offering up are nothing new.

So if it’s all been said before, why even bother finding another way to say it?

Because it’s not the words that are the most important thing we bring to the table. It’s the connection. Connection is the unique part.

So while your words might be nothing new…finding a new way to say it, blended with the connection you have with your audience and your world…that is truly new. Truly eye opening.

»» Connection is derived from your strength of presence. Words are simply technique. And presence (connection) trumps technique. Presence makes technique look good.

»» We can easily copy technique (and often times we should). But connection and presence can rarely be duplicated...it’s best to build your own.

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Campfire Songs

You probably don’t write songs with a campfire in mind, but being on the list of songs that get played at campfires isn’t a bad list to be on…

What kind of songs get played around the campfire? Answer…songs that are easily played around a campfire.

Classics.

Songs with a great chorus.

Simple songs.

Songs that don’t have to be sung well in order to be great and bring back the memories.

Songs with lyrics that people are proud to remember in front of their friends.

Songs that you don’t have to get all the lyrics right in order to still get the feeling.

Songs that when you’re finished with it, immediately spark the next song.

Songs that sounds extra good at midnight.

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