This isn’t a song you are going to want to be signing when you’re 80 years old.
At some point you must choose a metaphor for your days. If you haven’t done so, today is infinitely better than tomorrow to choose that metaphor.
Once you’ve chosen that metaphor…
…then say something with it.
…and then do something with it.
In saying so and doing so, you will now be living something with it.
Curly, you have the floor. (click)
Look at fashion, note the popular decor, gaze at the arts, listen to the latest music, observe the commercial space, and taste the culinary experience that is successfully unfolding in the world today and you’ll notice one thing from those that are winning: eclecticism.
We are starting to see that as we pull from different genres and the random, typically unused space, this eclecticism is giving life a spring-like aroma, robust flavor, and symphonic sound.
It plays out like this…The technology company studies humanities. The bar learns from the church and vice versa. The dad learns from the child. And we learn from each other as we are passed to each other. In other words, you are a hint towards the greater good for me – and I to you.
In the end we agree that we are one and it’s our oneness, compiled with the eclecticism of our uniqueness, that makes it all – life, family, business – worth it.
You want meaning, purpose, and fulfillment from your life’s music?
Know that bluegrass fingers can learn a lot from a blue-jazz soul.
Mix. Match. Spezatto.
Here and now is all we’ve got.
Tomorrow is but a dream.
What you do here, today, and what you do now are the primary predictors of the future.
Status, condition, experience, meaning, feeling, and fulfillment are all whimsical byproducts of our push within now.
Here > There.
Now > Then.
…the greater the chances are of it leading to a dead end.
The reason we gawk at mountains is due in part to us being able to feel and hear their plea for us to climb them.
Rocky? Yes.
Windy? Yes.
Worth it? Most definitely.
Show me a man or woman with a life powered by their ‘why’ and I’ll show you someone who is rarely wondering what to do or how to do something.
No one wondered where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in regards to his ‘why’. He spoke it. He lived it. He clothed himself with it and, in doing so, encouraged and inspired the world with it.
Whatever it is you are after, whatever it is you want, whatever is your dream – you have to believe it before anyone else will. Day after day, you must consistently and persistently believe.
Persistence is a byproduct of faith and faith typically comes from a deep conviction in one’s ‘why’.
The world doesn’t change without conviction.
Ashton.Gustafson 