Monthly Archives: October 2013

It could take 1, it could take 500, it could take 10,000

Approximately two years ago, on November 1, 2011, my fingers graced the key board and the mouse clicked ‘publish’ for my first post at LTMPblog.com.

Since then I’ve seen great successes, massive set backs, glorious moments, rough days, holy days, and a mix of almost every human emotion we can experience. I’m sure you share the same story over the last 24 months as well. Nevertheless, every weekday morning, with very few exceptions, I’ve shown up here in the rawest state possible to give some generosity of thought on the pursuit of making music with our lives, families, and businesses.

Today marks my 500th post at LTMPblog.com.

You may have just found these thoughts. If so, welcome. Or you may have been here from the start. If so, thank you.

For me, the most beautiful aspect of this blog is that the original hope is 100% fully intact: that this would be a place we all would – together – be moved, molded, and changed into the musicians we’re all meant to become.

Thank you for walking with me on the path to better, greater, and more meaningful music for our days.

We’re just in the beginning of this symphony that’s unfolding and it could take 1, 500, or 10,000 thoughts for this blog’s mission to be fulfilled.

Whatever the case, I’ll be here.

LTMP.

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Wake It Up

That thing inside of you: That passion. That purpose. That hope. That ideal. That pull in your soul.

Wake it up.

It may take a person to awaken this in you. Find them.

It may take a reminder to awaken this in you. Set it.

It may take a book to awaken this in you. Read it.

It may take solitude to awaken this in you. Pursue it.

It may take you to awaken this in you. Find a mirror.

Awake.

Rise.

Shine.

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‘Come See’: The Leader’s Decoding of Our Dictionaries

Leadership is about meeting people within their current definitions of their circumstances and possibilities while digging, sculpting, and chipping away at the validity of such definitions.

Leaders change, refine, and refocus our definitions.

Simply put, a leader – a great leader – takes your ‘this’ and shows you it could, or maybe even should, be ‘that’.

Leadership = ‘come see.’

We don’t follow those with pretty dictionaries. We follow those with the metaphors found between the lines of the dictionaries they’ve had exposure to.

Today is a new song you’re here to write. Please allow it point us to a place or purpose of enlightenment.

#LTMP

Revolutions and the art of gardening

Revolutions follow the law of process and the law of cause and effect.

A heart revolution will start a mind revolution that starts a hands revolution that sparks an action revolution that leads to a change for the better revolution.

If you want a revolution on your hands that will eventually dent the world, it must first start in your chest.

Nevertheless, the act of gardening > knowing how your garden grows.

You say you want a revolution? Think heart, think soil, think gardening, then let the Muse do His thing.

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Destiny Via Belief

Your destiny is intertwined with what you believe about yourself, your circumstances, and your purpose.

We don’t believe everything that the world may tell us, but we do believe everything we tell ourselves.

When it comes to your beliefs, you are a far better teacher for yourself than I or anyone else ever could be.

Listen up. Listen in. Live it out.

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