The Choice To Write

I stood in front of several students last night. They could've easily been outside running the streets or cranking the music up in the neighborhood to eleven. Their choice was to be in the moment. To take their present and learn. Rather than brag or speak of my success. I turned the stage around to them. They chose to listen.

The Hider Is The Writer

It took me nearly 15 years of daily writing to final stop hiding. What was I putting down on paper that I couldn't say face to face? So often we think writing is a Dear Diary moment. When in fact its the universe working its music through you. And you just happened to catch a rhythm of unique. Then it became your technique. But are you willing to share it?

You Are Not Invisible

Boss's and coworkers turn brilliant people into shapes of invisible behavior. But the blame doesn't stop there. Family members and friends can instantly make another person feel invisible. In moments like this our minds and hearts want to return to the day when things were happy. That means going back to an old job. That means picking up a few bad habits that you once got away with. Your success is not invisible. Its blinded by assumption.

No I Can't Write Today

Am I the only one that's shocked that it's almost 2016? Did anyone leave any bread crumbs to follow back to that one happy moment in our lives? We aren't anything more than chasers. We have a dream. We stalk it. When it doesn't work out. We Google for a new outlook. Nobody knows because being here doesn't mean you hear your true calling. You don't have to. It's almost 2016.

Stop Giving Invite Participation

Your parents threatened you when the decision was to stop sharing. I honestly believe that's a horrible place to put a person. What is sharing but giving? When people give give give. Not only do the people around them become addicted to it. But the giver becomes empty. I am not a fan of sharing. I trust instead in participation. If there is to be a transaction. You should be asking, "What's in it for me?" While building a foundation sand alone won't hold up a home. It requires several different elements. But how strong is the house if the maker of support chose to steal the energy from someone or something that felt empty?

Playtime Is Over

When we set out as young adults to conquer a career goal. We treat the dream like a toy. Then one day you come to a line. That line can either be stepped over or run away from. That line takes you away from playtime and makes you a part of the foundation of success for the business. Not everybody can handle the pressure of growing forward. Therefore they take on other challenges. In most cases they spend the rest of their lives wishing and wondering about what if they hadn't made that choice.

Leadership Begins With Failure

Nothing brings silence to my soul faster than someone that expects their gifts of performance to be their fame in life. Just because you can throw a football or dunk a basketball doesn't qualify you as one of the greatest in the professional leagues. Where we go wrong in our stretch toward success is the idea that failure is the switch to turn it off. When in reality... its the experience that makes the champion.

Study The Hands And Shoulders

The martial artist in me learned very quickly how to verbally keep control of my own decision making. Know in your soul that those that study the martial arts aren't doing so to fight. It's to take a better view of how we communicate.

Being Patient Makes You The Silent Wolf

Its not that we have a love hate relationship with self. The digital platform has turned each of us into information gatherers without having to break bread with a passerby. Why should we communicate with a physical person when I have better conversation with someone halfway around the world? The problem is... its affecting our schools. Parents want a lot from teachers without realizing what's required to brand a lesson into the soul of a growing mind. If you stand back for a moment and look outward. You wouldn't want to listen to the songs you've created.

Dreams Fate And Reality

I've never been that guy that stands around listening to someone talk about the dream they had last night. What is a dream but a place where reality doesn't exist? I'm sorry that you had a bad dream last night but... I can't talk about it. We invest so much unnecessary energy in what we saw while sleeping. It controls the day into night. Placing the dream aside is a brilliant choice. Get back to reality and do all you can to stay away from fate.

Save It For A Rainy Day

My mother used to tell me, "Save it for a rainy day." Why would I want to save money for a day that's cloudy, cold and miserable? To save something for a rainy day basically means put it away for a moment that you will need it. But as humans we truly don't save our thoughts for a rainy day. We let things hit us then fall quickly to the forest floor. Because I write daily. I'm able to go back several months or years and learn from the lessons that were taught to me during moments that I assumed were wacky and insane. And yet in going back... I realized I was speaking to my future self. I saved my thoughts for a rainy day.

The Other Side Of The Fence

How were you shaped? Seriously do you think it was a higher power? You arrived by way of the universe. But every step you've taken has been the end result of the people that surround you. You aren't you because of you. You are you because someone else took over your creative flow and turned you into what they needed you to become. Sounds like a great plan. If you're a robot. But you aren't. You were designed to make a difference. It's time you believe in yourself.

Leadership Begins On Your Path

The rules change everyday. You're expected to know when they changed. More importantly you have no voice to defend yourself when those making up the rules feel its time for change. How then can there be success if the earth beneath your feet is always moving?

The Birth Of Continuation

I invite you to lay your open palm on any sheet of paper. The tree is still speaking. Who is the true writer? Is the wind that once flowed through the trees? Is it the rain that fell through the trees. Is it the passerby that was once so in love with another person they sat next to the tree and held closely to their soul the music of thousand plus one lyrics? I invite you to listen to the energy a single sheet of paper holds in its veins.

Activate Your Lessons Learned

I do find it interesting. The number of people that crowd themselves into southern churches. Only to face most of the same people on the following workday Monday. Its there that you quickly learn very few lessons taught actually became part of the path. And yet... and this isn't judgment. Most brag of what they've done by way of keeping true to the word. If religion isn't your thing. I'm ok with that. Replace the thoughts of religion with college or high school studies. Are you actively putting to work the lessons taught. Or do you stand on a box and brag of what you're doing? Without realizing the deeper purpose of their being a plan.

Moving Through Energy

For there to be air. You breathe. But what arrives with the air that you instantly toss to the side? What if you learned that your body collects thoughts and patterns from other living things? Does that give you permission to suddenly toss it away? Taking the time to recognize what real energy is... The pace through this race will slow down the rate of speed once traveled. What if your next thought truly doesn't belong to you but rather came from a budding rose?

Don't Dam Learn To Flood

Stop asking why you can't find success and start studying the walls of your dam. We surround ourselves with people that lead us to their success, Not yours. We are pieces parts of a bigger plan and no matter how talented you are. Other people are making money off your performance. You have allowed other people's needs to dam you up. It's time to rip their bricks out of your dam. Flood the world with your performance.

Give Your Soul Soul

What is "Feel" when what we "Feel" is already on display? How do we gain control of our flow of energy? People don't care how you feel. Its a mechanism the human needs so that the person asking can locate their level on the ground they are presently walking on. People endlessly compare their present moment with everything moving around them. How do you gain control of what you "Feel?"

The Application

Where is your happiness? Time travel seems like a lot of fun. Only to realize it carries too much luggage. Why should we shape shift and race through time when Walmart can instantly brighten up your moment with a cheap high?

Accepting

I've always believed the Universe and or God speaks to us every day. It's not words of humanized conversation as we know it. Its through waves of energy endlessly spinning around us. When you learn to listen. Amazing things unfold.

What Is Your Reality

The other day I spent some time with Oscar award winner Lee Grant. We spoke deeply about writing. Then I asked, "Do you ever interview yourself?" The playground changed....

Is Chaos Your Fuel

Chaos is a word that comes with several types of pictures. But do you need it in order to locate success? What if it became your fuel? Under controlled chaotic situations can't there be movement forward? Bosses tend to create chaos to control the levels of performance. Is your stress the end result of their chaos and how can you get around it?