In sports, if you’re found to have used performance enhancing drugs, or steroids, your achievements are null and void. Then you’re banned from further competition. If it’s found out after the accolades and laurels, they are stripped from you and your name has an *asterisk placed next to it in the record books. It’s cheating. […]
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f enough people break the rules… The rules are diluted into change. It can be both good and bad. It is why film is in a death spiral. Publishing is a dumpster fire. And art is celebrating mimicry. The natural effect of everyone chasing the new hot thing is that it becomes a pool of
When you pick your visionary battle…Do you survey the landscape first for your hill to die on? Does it have a good view for you, or are you looking for a place for your corps to be seen? I only ask, because we’ve all got blinders on.All of us. If we are out there hoping
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Starving artists are romanticized.The phrase, “if you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life,” is used to ‘advise’ graduates or those teetering on the cusp of life change. Have you experienced life?About the time you think you have anything figured out, the rug gets pulled out from under you.It’s going
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We all live in a consumer economy.We buy, we sell…we fall victim to chronic wasting disease?I guess a word CAN mean two different things. Gluttony and tuberculosis…what a joy.But in the end, it all rounds out the same way… with an obituary and a tombstone. There probably aren’t that many obituaries that use their space
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The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is not a happy one.If anything, it’s a cautionary tale illuminating the miracle that lemmings aren’t extinct. Anyone that says, “follow my lead,” should be questioned.Especially if they haven’t done anything except get elected to a job title. True leadership is trailblazing.It isn’t someone saying, “follow in
We’ve all heard the phrase, “fake it, ’til you make it.”The base idea of that being that if you act like you know what you’re doing, other people will believe that you know what you are doing…and eventually you’ll figure out…what it is exactly that you should be doing…and being paid for. How often have
All said and done. Our acts boil down to an obituary and a headstone. What you leave behind, defines you. Whether you like it or not. Is it an estate fight?A land grab?In my case, a pile of crap that more than likely someone else already owns… You have to value yourself before anyone else will care
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Are you at the top of your game?If so, good on you. (Why are you reading this?!) If not, what are your deal breakers? I fall into this. You fall into this. …WE fall into this. The stink about being a leader, is that you are asking those around you to put their dreams and ambitions on hold
All Flash. No Fire. Being busy…is…well, bullsh!t. Do you honestly know anyone who isn’t slammed?Truly? This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t say no to projects, or that you shouldn’t be protective of your time. It’s simply to say that…are you living under a rock?! Does that rock have a sword stuck in it? Truly.
