Business SPLASH
At Splash City Studios,
BUSINESS is NOT AS USUAL
A quick search on the web for business in 2012 indicates there are over 7 BILLION "How-to" pages.
There's a "How-to" on just about anything and everything you can think of.
It's become a How-to world.
Billions and billions of digital bits of "How-to".
Just thinking about it can make you dizzy.
It's daunting, and begs a timeless question.
Is easy access to information really the key to success?
There's no question the right information at the right time is critical to functioning in our fast paced world,
yet TOO much information shocks us into a deep paralysis.
Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson or Mark Zukerberg, just to name a few,
didn't create their success via the 'How to" world.
At Splash City Studios, we believe
INFORMATION is not TRANSFORMATION
This "How-to" world sucks the spirit, confidence, creativity, and ability to think for ourselves right out of us.
It's a dragon.
A How-to dragon that has turned the simple essential ingredients of living a purposeful life - imagination, self-reliance and will - into lost arts.
When people can't think for themselves, they are disposed to be followers of others who may not have their best interests at heart.
This is basically modern day slavery. We think we are free, but we answer to the How-to dragon for everything we know.
What answers might we find to many of our contemporary problems if we were to cultivate these lost arts?
To combat this How-to dragon, we need to retrieve the lost arts.
We need to rely on our own imagination, trust in ourselves, and make our world through our own senses.
But NOT by heaping on more bullet points and more information!
We cannot continue feeding the dragon.
We must slay the How-to dragon.
HOW?
Through the time-tested power of story.
There's a "How-to" on just about anything and everything you can think of.
It's become a How-to world.
Billions and billions of digital bits of "How-to".
Just thinking about it can make you dizzy.
It's daunting, and begs a timeless question.
Is easy access to information really the key to success?
There's no question the right information at the right time is critical to functioning in our fast paced world,
yet TOO much information shocks us into a deep paralysis.
Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson or Mark Zukerberg, just to name a few,
didn't create their success via the 'How to" world.
At Splash City Studios, we believe
INFORMATION is not TRANSFORMATION
This "How-to" world sucks the spirit, confidence, creativity, and ability to think for ourselves right out of us.
It's a dragon.
A How-to dragon that has turned the simple essential ingredients of living a purposeful life - imagination, self-reliance and will - into lost arts.
When people can't think for themselves, they are disposed to be followers of others who may not have their best interests at heart.
This is basically modern day slavery. We think we are free, but we answer to the How-to dragon for everything we know.
What answers might we find to many of our contemporary problems if we were to cultivate these lost arts?
To combat this How-to dragon, we need to retrieve the lost arts.
We need to rely on our own imagination, trust in ourselves, and make our world through our own senses.
But NOT by heaping on more bullet points and more information!
We cannot continue feeding the dragon.
We must slay the How-to dragon.
HOW?
Through the time-tested power of story.
Business and life fables for the 21st century
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While others are betting their future on probability;
the job, the education, the house, the stock market and anything else outside themselves,
here at Splash City Studios we invest in POSSIBILITY... quite simply we invest in ourselves!
"Love it! I'm giving the books to my friends. Now I'm splashing our world with wellness... one splash at a time!"
- Laurie D., Business Owner, Realtor
"Gets the point across about how your thoughts change reality... I've been studying the How-to way of self-improvement for years. It's complicated, and hard to understand for most people. Splash City's approach cuts through it all, and makes it simple to understand." - Matt A. MSW, Licensed Social Worker
"Just what I needed... Imagination isn't just imaginary... Let go of expectation and find/follow the why... sage advice."
- Justin S., Screenwriter, Director
"Stayed up late to read the books... I cried... the writing has such a perfect flow... I like the play on words and vibrant color descriptions... Uno is adorable... Mzzz Pink is intriguing... and what a twist!"
- Kathy B., Banker, Customer Relations Consultant
Loved it! Splash City is an oasis! Keep it going!" -Vishi M., Ph.D. Chemist
LIVE THE FAIRY TALE.
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What is Cartoon Mentoring?
"The cartoon is a VACUUM into which our identity and awareness are pulled......an empty shell that we inhabit
which enables us to travel in another realm. We don't just observe the cartoon, we BECOME it!"
- Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, The Invisible Art
Mickey Mouse. Looney Tunes. Peanuts.
What is it about the classic comic or cartoon that makes its characters so memorable and endearing?
You identify with them.
Cartoon simplifies and amplifies. We just may listen to our favorite cartoon characters impart wisdom in a fun and magical way than anyone in the "real" world, and a cartoon just may provide the playful means to make it stick.
"The cartoon is a VACUUM into which our identity and awareness are pulled......an empty shell that we inhabit
which enables us to travel in another realm. We don't just observe the cartoon, we BECOME it!"
- Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, The Invisible Art
Mickey Mouse. Looney Tunes. Peanuts.
What is it about the classic comic or cartoon that makes its characters so memorable and endearing?
You identify with them.
Cartoon simplifies and amplifies. We just may listen to our favorite cartoon characters impart wisdom in a fun and magical way than anyone in the "real" world, and a cartoon just may provide the playful means to make it stick.
A Special Message about Cartoon Mentoring
from Mzzz Pink, Founder of Splash City Studios
Hi. I'm Mzzz. Pink. As most of you know, there are people in Splash City whose greed and lack of vision turned our once beautiful city into ruins. Splash City is now a walled world, with most of its residents working on a ladder on the Wall or on anAbusement Park ride, rather than living life on their own terms. In these challenging times, it's harder than ever to make it off the wall. Most don't even try and for those who do, it seems like an insurmountable task. Sadly, too many people mistakenly think getting off the wall is something accomplished outside of themselves. But of course, it's not. Getting off the wall is about tearing down your own walls and transforming yourself; something only you can do for yourself.
Yet we all need help. And so does our city. Therefore, my friends and I joined forces to do something about it. An exclusive group of my very special friends have assembled here at Splash City Studios with a purpose. Each of them made it off the wall in their own unique way, and have agreed to serve as Cartoon Mentors and share their magical stories to help you get off the wall and become what we here at Splash City call 3D. They know story is the time-tested medium for transforming lives, and that well-being is an art. We in the cartoon world like to simplify and amplify, and so our team is changing a humdrum How-to world of overwhelming information into a vibrant y2 magical world of wonder. Thanks to all my special friends, we are transforming a city of walls into a city of bridges and Splash City is now becoming a wondrous place. A place of what can be instead of what just is. A place 4U 2B 3D. At Splash City Studios, we are transforming our city, starting by transforming ourselves. As our Mission statement says "Whatever is splashing around inside of us is spilling out into the world, creating beauty or discord with all other circles of life."
Yet we all need help. And so does our city. Therefore, my friends and I joined forces to do something about it. An exclusive group of my very special friends have assembled here at Splash City Studios with a purpose. Each of them made it off the wall in their own unique way, and have agreed to serve as Cartoon Mentors and share their magical stories to help you get off the wall and become what we here at Splash City call 3D. They know story is the time-tested medium for transforming lives, and that well-being is an art. We in the cartoon world like to simplify and amplify, and so our team is changing a humdrum How-to world of overwhelming information into a vibrant y2 magical world of wonder. Thanks to all my special friends, we are transforming a city of walls into a city of bridges and Splash City is now becoming a wondrous place. A place of what can be instead of what just is. A place 4U 2B 3D. At Splash City Studios, we are transforming our city, starting by transforming ourselves. As our Mission statement says "Whatever is splashing around inside of us is spilling out into the world, creating beauty or discord with all other circles of life."
Coming soon! The FOURTH BOOK in the y2 WORLD OF WONDER series!
RISE UP TO THE WAVE by Justin Tide
For those of you who don't know me yet, I was on the wall for years, working at a variety of low wage jobs. Before I called it quits I was on track to becoming an assistant manager at Funky Donuts. I was doing double shifts, working all kinds of ungodly hours and ending up with a pidly paycheck. You know the deal. I had next to no time to surf, or to pursue my dream to own a surf shop.
While I was working there, I watched the people come in every morning to get their coffee before heading off to their ride on the abusement park, or to their ladder on the wall. They cling and clutch so desparately to their ladders, all for the status of owning their own shoes, having to keep up with the latest styles, and staying buried in a mountain of debt. Most folks owe so much money on their shoes and expensive ladders they end up owned by the banks on Fall Street! They don't even think about it, they are so busy on their rides. Well, I thought about it, and I got off the ride of death! I even stopped wearing shoes. It's not easy, but you know how I did it? By surfing!
You can't surf on a ladder!
Surfing is all about balance, developing skill and being in the moment. It is being acutely in tune with the energy waves all around us all the time. Waves come in all types and are just forms of energy like water, music, sound, light, emotions and so on. You fall off the board, and have to get back on. You have to wait for the right wave and surf the smaller ones until you can ride the big ones! You have to wax your board, learn how to stand, and not be afraid to fall, get my drift?
While I was working there, I watched the people come in every morning to get their coffee before heading off to their ride on the abusement park, or to their ladder on the wall. They cling and clutch so desparately to their ladders, all for the status of owning their own shoes, having to keep up with the latest styles, and staying buried in a mountain of debt. Most folks owe so much money on their shoes and expensive ladders they end up owned by the banks on Fall Street! They don't even think about it, they are so busy on their rides. Well, I thought about it, and I got off the ride of death! I even stopped wearing shoes. It's not easy, but you know how I did it? By surfing!
You can't surf on a ladder!
Surfing is all about balance, developing skill and being in the moment. It is being acutely in tune with the energy waves all around us all the time. Waves come in all types and are just forms of energy like water, music, sound, light, emotions and so on. You fall off the board, and have to get back on. You have to wait for the right wave and surf the smaller ones until you can ride the big ones! You have to wax your board, learn how to stand, and not be afraid to fall, get my drift?
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