Is your widget or service really THAT special? Unlikely.
In this age of commoditization, everything can be purchased, anywhere, anytime, from many sources.
Can your customers, your patrons, your tribe find a similar offering or service elsewhere that will fill the basic requirements which they are seeking? Certainly. What you really need to think about offering, to stand clearly apart, is more humanity.
Deliver more humanity and you win.
Have you had your “wrecked” life experience yet?
Maybe you have been wrecked in a relationship or your marriage. What was once bliss and a source of tranquility smashed up on the rocks. Somewhere, you don’t really know where, a fork in the road appeared: you went right and she went left. And now you are trying to find your way back, trying to find your way back to a place of stability; needing forgiveness, needing to forgive, needing hope. Continue reading
“Life is like an hourglass, glued to the table” so the lyric goes.
Each of us has a finite number of grains of sand in our own hourglass of life. None of us knows how many grains are remaining, but one thing is certain, those grains are limited, eventually the last one drops.
Have you thought about how you will use your remaining grains?
Are you afraid to start over?
Are you addicted to the status quo and just can’t seem to let go? Does that inner voice keep telling you that it’s time to FINALLY change? Are you afraid to listen to that inner voice…and to do something about it? Maybe you have invested years in your current situation and can’t fathom starting over. Too risky, you tell yourself. Too much energy required: emotionally, intellectually, physically, spiritually.
The scene: A dark, stormy night. Rain pounding down on the roof. An argument.
Man: “You KNOW I love you. I have sacrificed EVERYTHING for your happiness. I would even DIE for you!”
Woman (sobbing, with choked up voice, looking up at him, eyes soaked with tears, mascara running down her cheeks): “but would you LIVE for me?”
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I just had a conversation with my wife last night about what I was observing and experiencing in my recent foray into the world of art. In short, I told her that my overall study of modern and contemporary art left me feeling like mankind is lost, confused, and searching.
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I have given fear a lot of thought recently. That’s because I can taste fear, I know when it’s around, hanging out and trying to pull my strings.
Fear robs you.
Fear picks your own pocket.
Fear is a vampire and puppet master rolled into one.
The thing about this vampire? You choose to invite it to your neck and drain your life.
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You are miserable because you are living a safe life; you are miserable because you haven’t been creating art.
What is art?
/art/ – “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.”
Art can be manipulating a spreadsheet or a brush on canvas in new ways.
Art inspires us. Art makes us come alive, it animates us.
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Are you tired of going from failure to failure?
Winston Churchill is credited with declaring “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” At times it seems unbearable when we are up against yet another failed attempt, we think “Again?” ANOTHER dead-end?
Who am I? For what purpose was I made? How do I find myself? What am I really good at? What should I do with my life?
Searching questions, we all have them, especially when we encounter milestones or events in life (birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, births, deaths of loved ones, etc.). Having recently experienced a couple of milestones myself, it seemed natural to revisit these essential and fundamental life queries.
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