And with this understanding in mind, it amazes me to see how many people:

- Listen to nasty music and think it won’t affect them.

- Watch bad images and think they will not be impacted by them.

- Lie, cheat, and steal and think that it will not undermine their reputation.

- Are late, unprepared and apathetic and think that it will not impact their income potential.

- Make excuses and blame others for their sorry state and think that it serves a useful purpose.

- Surround themselves with a lousy reference group and think that they will not become just like them.

- Gossip about and criticize other people and think that it does not demonstrate a lack of character.

- Expose their mind and soul to behavioral indecencies and really think that it will not negatively impact their results.

These people are delusional if they think that’s the case.

UNFORTUNATELY, far too many are OVER-EXPOSED to these behavioral indecencies which add absolutely no value to their lives.

In fact, by remaining exposed to these indecencies, they are in effect digging a grave which they may never climb out of.

THE SOLUTION

You must never forget that your mind thinks about what it is exposed too.

Therefore, consciously give serious and consistent exposure to whatever is:

- True

- Noble

- Right

- Pure

- Lovely

- Admirable

If anything is excellent or praiseworthy–expose yourself accordingly.

YOUR TWO-STEP CHALLENGE

Your challenge each and every day is twofold:

Step 1. Expose yourself to new ideas, to stimulating conversation, to positivity, to good–honorable people, to quality music, to healthy food, and…anything that is virtuous.

Step 2. Expose other people to your good character, sound judgment, and to your helpful nature.

You must expose people to the example you want emulated in society.

You must consistently expose yourself, your children, employees and friends to world-class ideas, and that is exactly why I created Everything Counts!

In this one-of-a-kind program, you will be exposed to:

- Excellence

- Quality

- Commitment

- Integrity

- Attention to detail

- The competitive advantages of speed

- Accountability and reputational collateral

- Best personal practices of the most product people that ever lived

and so much more…

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The Funky Street Sweeper

Excellence is achieved via qualitative, not quantitative shifts in developing skills. Being part of a qualitatively different world or environment where excellence is expected and practiced is a key to achieving excellence.

The following quote from Martin Luther King beautifully demonstrates the meaning of a qualitative shift and how it pertains to personal excellence.

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’”

Enjoy this video of the funkiest street sweeper in the world, Ziggy Dust.

The bin man spins, slides and twirls his litter stick as he collects rubbish around the streets of Hounslow, west London.

‘I love to see people smile when they see me dancing and the Council has been very supportive in letting me do my job in a different way,’ said Ziggy.

The moral of this message is simple: Find a calling and then deliver it with excellence and your own sense of style.

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Guido Daniele's Body Art

Daniele is a brilliant artist who has turned his hand to creating a wholly different style of painting which he dubs as ‘Handimals‘.

Rather than working on canvas, he uses human hands to produce these stunning animals -- like a Technicolor version of the “shadows on the wall” game.

The whole process takes up to ten hours -- and the models can’t even twiddle their thumbs…the end result is both surreal and sensational.

For your enjoyment, I have included a collection of Guido’s hand painting art. Check out his amazing creations which look like real animals and then visit his site and check out his body painting pictures.

Alligator by Guido Daniele

Eagle on two hands by Guido Daniele

Dog by Guido Daniele

Eagle by Guido Daniele

Elephant by Guido Daniele

Producer Mark Johnson

Playing for Change is a movement uniting people all over the world through music and inspiration. I absolutely love their mission and commitment to inspiring peace through music.

The film is unbelievably special and brings together musicians from around the world — blues singers in a waterlogged New Orleans, chamber groups in Moscow, a South African choir — to collaborate on songs familiar and new, in the effort to foster a new, greater understanding of our commonality.

Mark has also been instrumental in creating The Playing for Change Foundation which provides resources (facilities, supplies, educational programs, etc) to musicians and communities around the world.

Check out this compilation on the song: Stand By Me

The foundation is working with South African poet Lesego Rampolokenga to build the Mehlo Arts Center in Johannesburg, South Africa and building and supporting the Ntonga Music School in the South African township of Guguletu. In addition, Playing For Change is working to enhance and rebuild Tibetan refugee centers in Dharamasala, India and Kathmandu, Nepal.

Musicians around the world Playing for Change.

In the words of one of the artists featured in PLAYING FOR CHANGE, Vusi Mahlasela, “The world is immigrating into a global village, the question is how much do you want to belong.”

Learn more about Playing for Change, their mission, and how they are inspiring people throughout the world to accomplish much more together than we ever can apart.