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There are many things this world can do without. Your contribution (or mine) is one of them. We could all go along living simply not knowing the awesome you could have contributed. The world could march right through me or you as if we were a ghost. As if we were supposed to be there but we weren’t. As if we were supposed to make something that would stop the world in its tracks… But instead the world was cheated out of our contribution by our very selves.

Don’t cheat the world out of you. We need you. We just don’t know it yet.

Don't Cheat th world out of you.

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TheSuccessOfThose AroundYou

Honest Hour: Sometimes when I see something awesome someone I know has done, my first thought is, “Damn! I wish I’d thought of that.”

That sucks.

Especially when these people are friends and they have some successful project take off or an awesome idea come to life, we need to lift them up and celebrate!

Because you know Why?

Being nice makes you feel a lot better than being a jerk.

Oh and also, you get to keep your friends. And also, when you do something awesome, guess who’s gonna call you up and let you know about it?

Leaving behind a true mark on the world, a true legacy, is about more than making something awesome. It’s about being awesome and sharing it. If you pour your life into other people, share your success and celebrate theirs, you both win.

A friend of mine is a writer and she told me the story of her new book and how it all came to be. She told me about the community she was involved in and how supportive it was and how it helped her keep going and living her dream.

Her words: “The community is awesome here. We all help each other to succeed. A friend of mine just got put on the New York Times Best-Seller list and I got to be a part of that success. I helped her edit her manuscript. So I get to celebrate that success with her! Because I realized that with all the success I might achieve and all the awesome things I might do, they will never add up to the sum of the success of those around me.”

Even with all the success I might achieve it will never add up to the sum of the success of those around me.

Yep. Don’t be a jerk. Tell people when they’re awesome and we’ll all grow together.

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This is me not writing.

I have been wanting to post all weekend but was beat out by fear. Fear of saying the wrong thing. Fear rejection. Fear of failure. But I woke up today and was reminded that this is it. That today is what all I have to make something. To add something. I only have one shot at today, so I will fight like hell to make it count.

Fear hates to see me sharing my thoughts because it knows that all it has to do is to convince me I’m wrong and everything I believe to be true will fall away to nothing.

Fear hates the sound of my keyboard.

Fear hates the sound of my camera shutter.

So this is me not writing. This is me not picking up my camera. This is me not creating today.

Ok, Fear. You win. I won’t make anything today. I hope you’re happy.

*Drops the mic*

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“The Dreamers are the saviours  of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocation, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. Humanity cannot forget it’s dreamers; it cannot let their lives fade and die; it lives in them; it knows as they realities which it shall one day see and know.

Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would parish.”

From James Allen’s 1902 essay, As A Man Thinketh.

Today the dreamers, the doers, the artists, are more visible than ever. It’s because of the work that was done before us by those who paved the way. Let’s keep it that way.

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We are a bored generation. It may have something to do with playing too much Mortal Combat and having the internet in our pockets… or microwaves. Yeah my money is on microwaves.

No I think the real issue is that we’re looking for something bigger than us.

A cause.

To fight for.

To champion.

Because of this constant struggle we think that change is the answer. So we change jobs, projects, or neighborhoods. But that underlying sense of wanting “more” is always there.

So we jump ship to a new ship…. but it’s the same damn ship. Just rebuilt.

I heard our friends Jenn and Dave touch on this in a talk they gave about a year ago. They spoke about making sure you don’t build up your identity around what you do. Instead find an underlying “Why” that way you’re not jumping from ship to ship.

If you can connect a why (A belief about who you are and why you’re here on this planet) with your current job or situation or project, then it will open your eyes to so many opportunities or insights you were missing. Just run everything through ‘Why’ and you’ll be more fulfilled because you know you’re doing work that matters.

If we’re going to make great work, eventually we’ll have to finish something. That requires staying interested for more than 5 minutes.
Don’t jump to the same damn ship. Stick through the storm. Find your why. Create something that matters.

Don

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