Something or someone always takes the place of the current. Pepsi wont last forever. Nor will Dre beats. Question is, will you be there to take their place?
Stay Positive & I Hope So
Life Lesson
Advice To My Younger Self
During meditation earlier my mind began to wonder. For some reason it went back to some childhood memories, of moments that I thought I was the only one who thought something or experienced something.
You know the odd-looking air on the horizon of a road, it’s almost as if it was heat or some fume? When I asked anyone driving in the car with me if they saw it, they responded as if I was crazy. I believed them.
Or, to the extreme, thinking of jumping off a building you’re on. Everyone has thought it at one point, but in the moment we feel so alone, as if we’re the only ones who think these things and we get uncomfortable about it.
The advice I’d give to my younger self is “you’re going to think about a lot of things that you will think are unique to you. They’re not.”
The reason I’d say this to my younger self, and to you, now, is that we have thoughts, which we quickly dispel based on the premise that we think we’re the only ones to think it. It’s a tragedy, really.
You think you’re the only one who has come up with a spectacular idea, but you’re not.
Think Jobs was the only one to think of transportable music in your pocket? Think Gladwell was the only one to wonder about cockpit culture and why planes crash? The answer is yes, you do.
And we’re wrong in that thinking; they’re merely the only ones who acted on an idea. You can be them if you realize you’re not the only one who thinks about things differently, who has the thoughts you do, who has an idea that just might damn well work.
Stay Positive & Worth A Try Right?
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Upping Your Mental Game
Meditate. Find new ways to be patient. And ask “why?” more often (of yourself).
Stay Positive & Up Your Mental Game
Enlighten Others
What Are You In It For?
I’ve seen it over and over. People enter agencies and use them as a stepping stone to what they really want.
Then there are those who go into an agency knowing it’s where they want to be.
Thing is, everyone knows why you’re there too.
It benefits all to go where you want to be. Find a way to be there instead of using another place as a stepping stone.
It’ll be worth whatever trials you go through to get there.
Stay Positive & Don’t Settle For Baby Steps
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Subjection
I thought earlier today at work how I’m learning more things that are difficult to communicate to people who haven’t experienced what I have.
A lot of what I write can be read as a short cut for you. You can skip all the frustrations of going what I’ve already gone through to reach the same conclusions. Right? …I hope not.
Rather then taking the short cut, I hope you are inspired to take the journey, encouraged to subject yourself to failure, to being uncomfortable, to thinking about things differently.
I’ve made it out alive, so can you.
Sometimes I forget it’s not the finish line that makes the race, but the run all the way to it. It is nice to know there is a finish line, though, and that’s why I write, why I share so many “finish line realizations” about life, about marketing, about public relations, about connections and art.
A finish line isn’t worth it without a marathon before it, and a marathon isn’t worth it without a finish line at the end. We have to take pleasure in both.
One of the toughest questions to answer when we are on a mission of success is what does success look like?
For me it’s getting you to subject yourself to things you wouldn’t have had you not read my writing. And, hey, along the way you may do things a bit differently and reach better, bigger, brighter conclusions than me. Sounds sort of exciting doesn’t it? (it is)
Stay Positive & Perhaps YOU Will Start Blogging Daily
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Owning It
Peculiar vocabulary, owning is.
You can lead a project. You can tag along with one. You can be the pack-mule to one. But owning it establishes an entirely different perspective, a more difficult set of responsibilities.
When was the last time you owned something?
Stay Positive & Are You Waiting For Your Turn? (I hope not)
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Selling Feelings
At a grocery store the other week I got in line with my cart of food, which included organic bananas. When the cashier grabbed the bananas, he said, “you know that it’s dumb to pay extra for organic bananas that are genetically identical to regular bananas, right?”
I had no clue how to respond.
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You know those “I should have said…” moments, when you think of the perfect response after the fact? It was one of those situations.
If I could rewind time I would have reminded him we don’t purchase things because of what people label them with, not directly anyway. We pay for products and services to feel a particular way.
Organic bananas and regular bananas may have the same genetic compound and benefit my body in the same way scientifically, but they make me feel completely different.
I feel cleaner eating organic bananas, and thus happier, more content with my choice. I feel like my body benefits more with organic bananas: I have more energy, a fuller stomach, better poops. And perhaps it’s just my mind, but I think organic bananas taste better too.
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When we challenge, doubt, and write off everything, when we settle for the generic and the banal, we also sacrifice the benefits that come with ignorance, that come with placebos, that come with just feeling good!
I’ve been known to say, “It feels good, to feel good.”
I won’t let a know-it-all cashier stop me from that. Organic Bananas, always.
Stay Positive & He’s Bananas