Wednesday Words
To Go Where Your VisionPoints, a few inspiration points for you and your business.
You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.
—Eric Clapton to John Mayer, quoted in Rolling Stone: The New Guitar Gods, 22 Feb 2007
In business—as in being a guitar god, apparently—you can’t want to be right more than you want to be raring to go.
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
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10 June 2009, 7:02 am
Okay, I just read on another blog an amazing thing that a local Starbucks did in Toronto – the water was out on the street which the Starbucks corners, so on a Sunday morning the went around to all the houses with a coffee urn on a trolley offering free coffee.
Now if that’s not an awesome MCE…
Details at http://idontcareforyourtone.blogspot.com/2009/06/best-thing-ev-er.html
Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome’s last blog post…Stop Procrastinating and Get Unstuck
10 June 2009, 7:16 am
Now that’s thinking with the spirit of the company, not the rulebook in front of you. Off to read it. WOW. Thanks, Alex!
Regards,
Kelly
10 June 2009, 8:43 am
I like Eric Clapton’s quote a lot. It reminds me last month when I showed up to photograph the rocky cliffs of Los Reyes near San Francisco, but it was completely fogged in. As it turns out they have some great dairy ranches there. I got cool photos of cows in the fog! I couldn’t have planned it better!
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10 June 2009, 10:25 am
Hi Kelly,
Had a chance to stop by this morning! And I am a huge Clapton fan too. I think the important thing is that wanting/ needing to be right is a function of the ego. Anytime the ego is running the show…the listening ears aren’t.
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10 June 2009, 12:51 pm
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a big Clapton fan. I love his music.
When it comes to giving advice on how to be a Guitar God, hands-down, nobody can argue that he knows what he’s talking about.
But in other areas of his life…well… Rampant drug and alcohol abuse. He stole Patty Boyd away from his buddy George Harrison, and then ended up cheating on HER later, having another kid with Yvonne Kelly while still married to Patty, and then refusing to admit his child existed. (Among other things…)
So, unless you’re a guitar player, NOT exactly the best role model in the world…
So forgive me for being a cynical Friar, if I take his quote with a grain of salt.
11 June 2009, 3:29 pm
Todd,
I like that. When you have the talent in place, you can show up and make it awesome, and roll with the punches.
Wendi,
Oh, boy, you hit the heart of my tiny rant right there. Ego sometimes has a way of blocking success. Indeed.
Friar,
I see your point, although… I didn’t hold Nikola Tesla or Sumner Redstone or… you get the idea… up as paragons of virtue, either. I don’t think I’m necessarily aiming to showcase role models here, though that’s fine too, just fresh takes on the things that get us all stuck and how to rock out (our lives and work) as we move forward.
Yes?
Until later,
Kelly