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Category Archives: Passion
Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell on Your Unique Voice
“Trying to find my own voice…I’m not even sure if I know if I have it or not. It’s something I’ve thought about, something that’s so important. I mean I think every human has their own voice and so every musician should, or has to find it…. All my musical heroes: Thelonious Monk or Sonny [...]
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Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell on How Complexity is Trumped By What You Bring
“I used to equate complexity with better music. How could you say that Segovia is more advanced than Robert Johnson or Jimi Hendrix or Wes Montgomery? … for me there’s no higher or lower… it just depends what you can bring to it or what your imagination can come up with.” - Bill Frisell (From [...]
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How did a young Bill Clinton aim his strengths to go from good to great?
I’ve been watching Elvis Costello’s TV show Spectacle. He conducts in-depth interviews with different famous musicians and famous people related to music. He also performs. Each interview I’ve watched so far reminds me of at least one strengths-based principle. In the Bill Clinton interview, Clinton talked about a key moment as a teenager when he [...]
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What strategy did Elton John use to be so successful with his strengths?
I’ve been watching Elvis Costello’s TV show Spectacle. He conducts in-depth interviews with different famous musicians and famous people related to music. He also performs. Each interview I’ve watched so far reminds me of at least one strengths-based principle. In the Elton John interview, he talked about his collaboration with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin. The [...]
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Let the Beauty You Love Be What You Do
“Let the beauty you love be what you do.” – Rumi Let’s look at the boundary line of our work and the beauty we love. Let’s see if we can dissolve that border between the two. A good first step is to cross back and forth between the two worlds more often in the day. [...]
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Happy 600th post At Your Best!
This is the 600th post – wow! These ‘anniversaries’ are helpful for me to pause and meditate on the value of persistence. Another word for persistence that comes to mind is ‘steadfast’. There is a deep value in standing by something that’s important over a period of time. I’ve been steadfast in writing the blog [...]
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When’s the Right Time to Tap Your Sweet Spot of Engagement?
I recently wrote about making maple syrup here. There is a very specific time for tapping maple trees. It depends on the trees storing excess energy in the fall as starch and then resting for months until the warmth of the sun turns that starch into sugar – the tree’s ‘sweet spot’. Laura and I [...]
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Moving Forward – Planting Garlic
In the dead of winter, in the long darkness, we move forward. It’s not helpful to look for fruition from our efforts – they will come in time. I’m thinking of Laura planting garlic on December 20, just a little while ago. The ground still hadn’t frozen, so planting garlic was still an option. (For [...]
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Joyful Sacrifice – Ray Bradbury and Doris Lessing on hard work and never working a day in your life again
Here are two quotes from two famous writers. I invite you now to read both. Which one resonates more for you and your life? They both are about writing of course, but insert whatever it is you are passionate about (or at least whatever it is you spend most of your days doing) wherever it [...]
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What I Realized about Strengths and Passion On My Bike on the Way to the Library