In three weeks, you’ll get to look back at what you said you would do in 2013 and you’ll get to look ahead and say what you’re going to do in 2014.
If we don’t know where we’re going, there’s no telling where we’ll go.
If you want to love a year, obsess over a day, grind out the hours, and be present in the minutes.
One day can change a year and change a life.
There’s time left.
If at all possible give altruism a role in the music you make.
Success in parenting is clothed with altruism.
Success in relationships and friendships is colored with altruism.
Success in marriage is bonded with altruism.
And ‘good business’ is what we say when we exchange altruism for a profit.
Altruism. A word we should ponder and pursue more often in the themes, feelings, and vibes within the music made of our days.
The world’s arms are open wide for such a cause.
Tolstoy once wrote…“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then, by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling — this is the activity of art.
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.”
From day one, the hope behind LTMPblog has always been to be a work of art funded with the daily generosity of thoughts around the idea of making music with our lives. It’s power has been in the possibility for you to think differently, find or name a needed bridge, or make a change for the better. Nothing more nothing less.
This music we speak of , here, is the bridge that connects us to the unconnected. And that, after all, is what we long for, appreciate, share, and come back to again and again. Out of the box we’re all dot connectors.
That’s why I’m here and that’s why I hope you are here.
These words aren’t for everyone.
They’re for you.
P.S.
Re: Your music.
May your music bless the crowd and speak to the soul.
…to say ‘yes’ to now.
…to say ‘no’ to more stuff.
…to say ‘yes’ to today.
…to stay true to your core.
…to not be swooned by the trend.
…to create value.
…to create, lead, and design a life to mean something.
…for a business to romance its niche.
…to hear your inner-voice over the world’s noise.
…to start.
…to grow.
…to change.
…to love.
…to be brave.
…to leave it all on the field.
Battles seem to be the overwhelming theme of the stories we can’t get enough of.
They are the maps between our wants and what we have.
We all want a story, but we tend to avoid the battle get it.
Can’t have one without the other.
Can you locate your fulfillment?
Can you name the geocodes for your purpose?
Where do you go to make your art?
What’s the place look like that makes you sing?
There.
You.
Go.
Ashton.Gustafson 