Posts filed under 'Believe'
We all expect good stuff to just ‘happen’. But who is going to DO IT?
I have come to the conclusion that very few people DARE. You are only as strong as your team. If you don’t make the effort, we will never achieve anything. We will never become great. It’s not me, it’s not you. It is US. If we don’t pull it together, who will? Do you want to move? Grow? Feel alive? It all comes down to what you put into it. You can stay at the point where you are or you can change your life. It’s your choice to be on this journey. Let’s do great stuff together. Let’s LIVE our purpose. Let’s BELIEVE. Let’s DARE!
But please don’t waste my time by following the herd.
LOVE, Peace and Moooo,
T
June 17th, 2009
“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
- William Blake
Love, Peace & Inspiration
T
May 18th, 2009
I didn’t build my business with the dream of delivering pay checks! All talk right now is about tightening your belt, downsizing your business, being happy that you have a business or a job!
I built my business with the ambition to have success based on a solid company culture and a dream. Now is the time to prove this. I did it once before and I can do it again.
These are times to invest in the team, invest in the future, invest in the dream. When people say they feel lucky to have a job, I will tell them that luck goes both ways.
Love, Peace and Growth,
T
April 26th, 2009
I went to one of our stores yesterday for a quick check with my nephew who drove me there in a pickup truck. As I was sitting there in the front seat smelling paint, wood and oil, I felt home again. I felt real again. Like I have been living in a dream for the past two to three years, during which time the speed of life had gotten out of control and we all lost touch with what’s important in life. We all talked about it and bought books about it. But it didn’t make a difference as we all got caught up in it.
Even if I had a moment of clarity in all of the insanity it didn’t matter. If I would have gone back to my group of managers and folks and said ‘Let’s stop; let’s just go back to basics!’ they would have said ‘Yes, you’re right. So how do we do that?’ And, sucked in by gravity, we would have all just fallen back into the same crazy rhythm again.
But NOW things are different. It’s like the spinning record has slowed down; we can hear the words of the music again. And it’s beautiful, it’s whole, it’s clearer than ever and we must listen to it with our hearts. I feel alive again! My adrenaline is pumping and we WILL kick ass again. We will push the frontiers of retail again and this time I will not hand over control. I don’t care if I am considered to be a good leader or not; I know I am a good leader. Not because I always make the right decisions (because I don’t), but because I have a Vision and I am taking a whole bunch of people on a journey to a place they would never have gone without me. But this time I will make sure I enjoy the ride too and be grateful for the small stuff.
From today, I will start every morning saying thank you for a great new day and end every day asking myself ‘Have I made TODAY matter?’ I will respect life and work harder than ever to make us an example for other companies to follow. To Do real Good in the world as a by-product of our success in selling stuff we Love. We Are What We Do. I love life again. Thanks for letting me have a second chance.
The world is a beautiful place!
Love T
March 19th, 2009
A lot of people think about HOW to do things. I don’t give a toss how. I am more interested in WHY. If something is interesting, I will always find a way to do it.
Happy New Year and may the financial storm fly by!
Peace, love and sunny skies,
Thomas
December 31st, 2008
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