Thanksgiving EVERY day.

Because Seth Godin's posts always seem to hit me at the heart level, and because today I'm focusing on drawing instead of writing, I'm re-posting another one of his blog entries... because I concur with his thoughts—110%. SOON, I'll post something original. But for now, enjoy Seth's philosophy.

A modern thanksgiving

Wherever you are, you could celebrate Thanksgiving today.

Not the Thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest before the long winter, the holiday of pilgrims and pie. That's a holiday of scarcity averted. I'm imagining something else...

A modern Thanksgiving would celebrate two things:

The people in our lives who give us the support and love we need to make a difference, and...

The opportunity to build something bigger than ourselves, something worth contributing. The ability to make connections, to lend a hand, to invent and create.

There are more of both now than there have ever been before. For me, for you, for just about all of us.

Thanks for joining me every day, thanks for your support, but most of all, by a longshot, thanks for doing the work, work that matters.

Amen brother! To view his amazing blog in it's entirety, click here.

Ideal Inspiration

I love Seth Godin and the concepts he represents. I loved this so much, I wanted to repost it. It's about innovation and ideas. I particularly agree, that great ideas come when the mind is relaxed, when we're in the car or shower, and not really trying. It's like the subconscious coming to the surface, guiding us. I'm all about ideas. They're so important. Besides opening up a new perspective, you can actually get PAID for your ideas. Look around you... everything you see was once an idea.

His blog post can be found here, along with many of his other amazing ideas. But I've reposted it below too.

1. Ideas don't come from watching television
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3. Ideas sometimes come from listening to a lecture
4. Ideas often come while reading a book
5. Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them
6. Ideas hate conference rooms, particularly conference rooms where there is a history of criticism, personal attacks or boredom
7. Ideas occur when dissimilar universes collide
8. Ideas often strive to meet expectations. If people expect them to appear, they do
9. Ideas fear experts, but they adore beginner's mind. A little awareness is a good thing
10. Ideas come in spurts, until you get frightened. Willie Nelson wrote three of his biggest hits in one week
11. Ideas come from trouble
12. Ideas come from our ego, and they do their best when they're generous and selfless
13. Ideas come from nature
14. Sometimes ideas come from fear (usually in movies) but often they come from confidence
15. Useful ideas come from being awake, alert enough to actually notice
16. Though sometimes ideas sneak in when we're asleep and too numb to be afraid
17. Ideas come out of the corner of the eye, or in the shower, when we're not trying
18. Mediocre ideas enjoy copying what happens to be working right this minute
19. Bigger ideas leapfrog the mediocre ones
20. Ideas don't need a passport, and often cross borders (of all kinds) with impunity
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22. An idea must come from somewhere, because if it merely stays where it is and doesn't join us here, it's hidden. And hidden ideas don't ship, have no influence, no intersection with the market. They die, alone.