The Ideal Group

Here’s what you have to give up in order to have a group…

The ideal group.

There might be times where it seems the ideal group has been attained…and then it get’s a little too…big, small, lazy, disconnected, hard charging, exclusive, inclusive, boring, needy…but despite it’s shortfalls, it’s a real life group, a team, a cohort.

You give up the ideal group, the imagined group, the hypothetical group…but in exchange you get an actual group. It it isn’t ideal, it’s not everything you’ve dreamed of…but it’s real.

»» Don’t let the idea of not having the ideal group hold you back from starting, contributing, keeping and growing a group

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Lifting The Weight

Lifting fifty pounds is the same whether you’re in a gym or in the corner of your living room.

It’s the same whether you’re wearing a high tech shirt or an old t-shirt.

It’s the same whether the weights are new and shiny or old and dirty.

Lift the weight. That’s the point. The other stuff is fun but don’t let the other stuff keep you from lifting the weight.

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Tapping Your Toes

It’s amazing the difference between standing still on stage and simply tapping your toes.

And there’s a lot of times it’s a good idea to do more than tap your toes, but going from nothing to tapping is a big deal.

It’s kinda like going from brushing your teeth zero times a day to once a day.

A little something does a lot more than nothing.

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The Proven Plan

They’re not easy to come by but there are certain aspects of life and careers where there’s a proven plan. A step by step guide to get from here to there. It’s still not easy but the road has been travelled many times before, so just stick with it.

And it’s wonderful, but here’s the often overlooked catch…

After you’ve achieved the proven plan, the only next move is to make up a non proven plan. A plan where it’s going to be hard AND it’s impossible to know for sure if it’s going to work. It’s unproven. It’s back to being scary.

It would be fun to be able to jump from proven plan to proven plan. But eventually the plan runs out of proof. And you have to keep moving anyway.

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Posture and Lazer Lights

The difference between your show and Taylor Swift’s or Bruno Mars’ isn’t the size of the budget.

It’s easy to think that if you could buy the staging, lights, dancers, band, wardrobe, video content and rehearsal space, you’d have just as great of a show.

But no…

The main difference between their show and yours is that they take on the posture of paying attention to every detail. Of understanding that when the spotlight is on, every nano second is showtime. Every gesture, every note, every word, every step, every eye blink.

That posture is free for the taking. And it’s way more important than the lazer lights.

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In Order To Be Exciting...

You have to have times you’re not.

Even the latest action movie has at least a little down time between explosions and car chases.

The way in which we identify something or someone has to do with what sticks out against the back drop…and it’s hard for excitement to stick out if the its against a back drop of excitement.

It’s why the hair metal bands had ballads.

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