Just like Herbie's rhythm

It's easy to say what needs to be done.  It's easy to talk about the things we want to do.  It's easy to imagine how things should be like when all things start happening.  What's challenging is how to get it started, when the right moment would be, and more importantly who gets it done first.

This video of the interplay between the legendary jazz icon Herbie Hancock and his old musician buddies drummer Harvey Mason and bassist Marcus Miller explains very much the same principles behind how moments can freely take its form without confusing anyone.  It's always a beautiful experience to be creatively involved.

Patient capital

The solution to every problem is not about knowing what to do but understanding first applicable principles behind the circumstance. On top of a knowledge driven approach, solutions should not discount the attributes of patience, freedom, dignity, and in today's generation, an entrepreneurial mind and spirit.

Jacqueline Novogatz speaks at TED a concept she calls patient capital and mentioned about interinterdiscplinary collaborations of as many creative sectors that applies.

Pessimism is good if...

Truth is that positive thinking is easier said than done. Because we are human and that we are basically sensual. We are influenced by the things around us and our decisions fall in these cracks (many times more often). We feel and act on our emotions by how our "world" revolves and resolves with it.

In the process of becoming, positive thinking instead becomes a hindrance. We tend to lose hope. We get defensive. At the end of the day, pessimism seeps and creeps and in our system we slowly become cynics.

It's surprising that things come easier this way.

Because negative thinking is much easier to do.

It's easier to hate. It's easier to criticize. It's easier to get angry at people you can't seem to forgive and reconcile with. It's easier to get pissed. It's easier to dwell in the past. It's easier to not forget. If it wasn't, this world would've been a perfect place to live would it?

So when can pessimism be useful?

I think pessimism works best when we use it in risk management planning or simply put finding solutions to problems. It works worse if it's a personal issue. The former helps - accountants and lawyers call it professional skepticism. Negative thinking works when taken as a tool to cross borders to hopefully understand what lies beyond.

The latter could just be a byproduct of selfish egos.

It pays to know how it should work for you.

Thinkers doers

Liars know how to lie best without getting caught. They're good at making it sound so true and heartfelt. And they don't trust anyone.

Those that have a lot to hide think that others hide a lot too. What is there to hide anyway? You don't need to block off people. Simply say and reveal what is only required. Simply ask and more importantly, ask the right questions.

Skeptics will stay skeptic. And they'll have a hard time getting people to trust them. People will notice and things will be counterproductive instead.

Imperfections bear unique personalities that breathes in the things that we do. When someone fails to put his or her best foot forward, be thankful it happened. Because it means there's no reason not to like that better foot when it steps forward.

Give it a good chance. Forgive. And more importantly - forget.

Nothing is perfect so stop being one.

Stay as positive as you can. Frustrations happen and it's sometimes unbearable, yes. It takes a big soulful heart to trust that good things can be done to make things better rather than dwell in those that put you down.

Don't worry too much.

Be not afraid to lose... be more afraid of not being able to give. And there's nothing to lose when you trust more.

Change needs to upset people

Even when things change for the better, even when the motive is to really change for the better, we still need to consider the risk of upsetting people.

Change requires strong leadership. Great leaders will always have both allies and non-allies (not necessarily enemies). The latter would be those that almost always gets upset about change.

Because each of us have comfort zones, it is normal and understandable that we get upset with change. We love our comfort zones. We love the past it is associated with. We love the convenience it has nested in us. We love the sloth it encourages.

And so we resist change.

So why is it important that I say this?

Because if we want to make a good change yet we don't prepare ourselves to people whom we might UNINTENTIONALLY upset later, we'd end up not able to make that good change at all.