Can we non-conform please?

Walt Disney and a robot
Screen shot from social media.

Ok, some ideas for being non-conforming:

  • Short and sweet
  • Shorter than expected?
  • Sweeter than expected? (i don’t even know what that means)
  • Use video instead of text?
  • Use text instead of email?
  • Give a homework (72-hour) assignment?
  • Tell a joke (i’m funnier in person than online)
  • Tell a story (video)?
  • Show exclusive, personal, early days photos?
  • Make them apply in some way in order to get a second email/text?

Guessing it’s not obvious, but this playing on the blogs process is incredibly fun and exciting.

Practice makes you good at your work. Play is what turns your work into art.

dad

Guessing that’s not obvious too.

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Tools of the artists

GNP. McDonald Creek, June snowmelt.

Every craftsperson uses tools unique to their art. Here are mine:

  • Questions
  • Paradox
  • Common sense

Through two-decades of full-time speaking, consulting, and coaching, i have found the most powerful, and simple, tools are concepts that every single person calls legitimate, logical, and powerful.

My job as a speaker is to rattle the cage of everyone in the audience. If they walk out thinking the same way they did when they came in, we didn’t need to have the meeting.

dad

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Eat like you mean it

Moss type plant in Montana mountains
Moss type plant, close up.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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How do you define art?

Never gets old.

How do you define art?

For me, art is creating.

There can be no judge nor jury that can decide if art is “good”.

Art is creating something that brings you joy.

Art may or may not bring others joy. This is critical to acknowledge. Art doesn’t need approval to be art.

Art only needs a passionate soul who is willing to spend time creating their art.

Exercising consistently for 20 years, beginning at age 40, is art.

Quitting sugary treats for over a year (and counting) is art.

Writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts since April 1, 2009 without missing a single day is art.

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Capture the crazy ideas as they come

Mid Life Celebration art 2008
Mid Life Celebration art 2008
Mid Life Celebration art 2008
The brain/mind was the hardest to land on. It kept looking like a lima bean or a swimming pool design.

Capture the crazy ideas as they come.

Why?

If you don’t, you will certainly lose them. And remember to not worry about how good or bad they are…and above everything else, capture the “bad ideas”.

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