Discovering & Nurturing Possibilities to Transform the World

Take this step from Robin Crow in the section on ‘Achieving the Unachievable’ in Jump and the Net Will Appear to bump your life up a notch or three. Here is the step:

“But this next chapter adds another key element. It’s a trait that will make the difference in whatever you set out to do. It’s the ability to consistently move forward toward your goals each and every day. It’s the ability to follow through. It’s the ability to take action even when you’re unsure, to be willing to trust that your net will appear. This is where faith comes in.”

Robin states it another way; “Your success in business will always be in direct proportion to your ability to take action.”

Need some ideas for building this step into a habit? Take action by getting involved here.

You guessed it, Robin Crow again. Here is a great quote from an unlikely source.

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of a genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Robin starts the section on ‘Living an Abundant Life’ with this gem. Abundance awaits you in Jump and the Net Will Appear. Is today your day?

Each of us has a higher calling which we are richer when working toward fulfilling. Robin Crow once again is spot on describing it in Jump and the Net Will Appear;

“Perhaps our purpose here on earth is to help one another learn and evolve, bringing us closer to God, closer to each other. By learning to sacrifice we experience wholeness. This mission lasts a lifetime. We must never stop learning how we can help others in meaningful ways. We must never stop uncovering the depth of our relationship with God. This is our Higher Calling. Have you ever witnessed a child who won’t share a soft drink with her parent who just bought it for her? I was recently with someone whose child did just that. The father smiled and said, ‘She just doesn’t get it yet.’ That’s the way it is with us humans. So many people receive incredible blessings and then refuse to share them. They fear someone might take it all back or that there won’t be enough. Maybe God is thinking, ‘They just don’t get it yet.’ The reason that we don’t share enough, give enough, help others enough, or love enough is simple - fear. Hey, sorry it’s so simple, but it is that simple. It’s our human fear of not getting our fair share, of not having enough. It’s a mindset of scarcity.”

Four post down for more on mindsets in Pumped Up.

It is OK to not fully understand the destination but please enjoy the journey.

or not, change that is. Continuing with Robin Crow in Jump and the Net Will Appear you have a simple formula for success. “So it’s not really about what we can do, but rather what we will do. We all have the ability to do extraordinary things, but many of us have been criticized and rejected so much that we’ve started to believe what we’ve been told. Sure, Jump and The Net Will Appear is about taking risk, but more important, it is a metaphor for life: Only when we take risks - those leaps of faith - can we experience the abundance life has to offer, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, even physically. The first step in creating positive change is walking away from old patterns.”

Makes me want to get walking (away from old patterns) to experience the abundance life has to offer.

Robin has a great quote in this section from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

That is the note I wrote (& underlined) in the margin of Jump and the Net Will Appear when I read the section on The Power of a New Thought. I highlighted this part; “There’s an old saying: ‘You can’t get where you’ve never been by doing the same things you’ve always done.’ The same goes for our thoughts. We have more than 30,000 thoughts a day; the problem is that 29,900 of them are the same tired ones we thought yesterday. We can’t ascend to new heights without lifting our thoughts to new heights.”

You have the thoughts, the important thing is recognizing them. Show youself ideas are important and you have more thoughts. Build the habit of capturing your ideas to launch your life to a new level.

What are you waiting for? Write this down.

Do you have 5 years of experience or 1 year of experience 5 times? I often asked this of fellow professionals in a life-or-death profession. Can you be counted on or are you a ‘poser’? Revisited this in Jump and the Net Will Appear, where Robin Crow says; “We all know people who spend their lives denying the lessons put before them. Others embrace each lesson and turn them into stepping-stones, building a path that leads to their dreams.

You are wisely  investing in your life as you embrace some of the growth sure to flow from the lessons you glean here.

What are you standing for?

“People live by two basic philosophies: the philosophy of abundance, where anything is possible, and the philosophy of scarcity, where we look at everything through fearful eyes.”

Forgot how wonderfully Robin Crow gently leads us to a better life through Jump and the Net Will Appear. Read it now and pass it on for changex2. You will be jazzed and the one you hand this masterpiece to will be indebted.

Really a (very) small price for greatness. You are called to greatness. Have you paid your dues today?

Understanding this (revealing) concept will move you ahead in your realm of life. Roger Von Oech shares in Expect the Unexpected; “More recently, American biologist Leigh Van Valen was inspired by the Red Queen character from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. (She’s the one who runs hard but never gets anywhere because everything else in the landscape is also running. As she tells Alice, “It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place!”) Van Valen used the Red Queen as a metaphor for his evolutionary principle that regardless of how well a species adapts to its current environment, it must keep evolving in order to keep up with its competitors and enemies who are evolving. Thus the “Red Queen Effect”: do nothing and fall behind, or run hard to stay where you are. (This is also found in business, new technology development, and arms races.)”

Reading helps you run faster so you do not fall behind.

Peter Drucker reveals great insight in Managing the Nonprofit Organization when he defines ‘non-profits.’

“And we now begin to realize what that “something” is. It is not that these institutions are “non-profit,” that is, that they are not businesses. It is also not that they are “non-governmental.” It is that they do something very different from either business or government. Business supplies, either goods or services. Government controls. A business has discharged its task when the customer buys the product, pays for it, and is satisfied with it. Government has discharged its function when its policies are effective. The “non-profit” institution neither supplies goods or services nor controls. Its “product” is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their “product” is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult: a changed human life altogether.”

Not only is the non-profit defined: “non-profit institutions are human-change agents,” but also business: “business has discharged its task when the customer buys the product, pays for it, and is satisfied with it,” and government: “government has discharged its function when its policies are effective.”

What are you doing to enhance the “human-change agents” in your sphere of influence?

“But,” she continued, “if you really want to stoke your business till it burns so bright that everyone will take notice, there are two things you must be with complete abandon” . . . “One: be deeply fascinated by the life of every person - customer, employee, colleague - your business touches; and two: be grateful for who they are and what they do”

Steve Farber lays this out in The Radical Edge. Do you think the subtitle might be a challenge for us who claim to be leaders? ‘Stoke Your Business, Amp Your Life, and Change the World’

What are you being this fine day?

‘Poet Charles Bukowski said it this way: “The difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can’t help doing.” I do this work because I can’t help it; I have to do it.’ - The Radical Leap

Want an interesting life? Include a few of these folks in your circle to add color & spice to your day.

“Entrepreneurs see change as the norm and as healthy. Usually they do not bring about the change themselves. But - and this defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship - the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” - Peter F. Drucker Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Are you tuned in to the changes in life around you? Do you habitually respond to the change?

Business author Michael LeBeouf, in his book The Greatest Management Principle in the World says, “What gets rewarded gets done.”

Brian Tracy shares this secret in Something for Nothing and we can enlarge our influence as we practice it.

Want to spice up your life? What are you rewarding (by action or inaction)?

When you answer your calling, life takes on a quality others flock to embrace. Can you name someone in step with their calling? Glad you asked!

My friend and our modern day pioneer Kevin Koym is a true master walking his calling. Want to know more about this superstar? Read The Art of Peace to catch a glimpse of Kevin’s path (& check out his blog).

“The Art of Peace is based on the Four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.”

Thanks Kevin. You are the best.