Monthly Archives: February 2014

Feb 14 2014
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The Youniversity of Why

You and why.

To define one is to define them both.

Show me a man or woman with a ‘why’ and I’ll show you someone who isn’t wondering what, when, where, or how to do their some-thing.

Your something is your why.

Your why is the theme of your life. Your why is your constant living and breathing verb. Your why is your metaphor – your meaning, purpose, and fulfillment that sails just below the surface. Your why isn’t who you think you are or who you think we think you are – it is simply…who…you…are…meant…to be…and become.

Which leads us back to you.

So why you? In short, only you can fulfill such a unique, stand-alone, and divine cause.

And herein lies the holiest of all pursuits: that we would become what we are meant to be.

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Feb 12 2014
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When They Say Cliche

A cliché or cliche is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, or effect, and even, to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

The first problem with the concept of cliché is that those that claim something to be cliché are the non-believers. They probably never tried whatever they’re mocking and, in doing so, have never tasted, seen, and experienced its fruit and/or benefit. The second problem is that they want to put their disbelief on you. If they don’t believe, then you shouldn’t either.

Here’s the catch…

There will come a day when you offer the world your music and, probably, most will claim your venture into such creativity and offering to the world to be cliché.

However, part of music being music is that it’s not for the masses and some will call it noise. It’s for the unique few…even if that means millions…it’s not for billions.

Part of the richness of life are those joy swapping moments with the people who believe what you believe and that rally behind, around, and in your music.

Outsiders will call letting your music play cliché.

We’ll call it fulfillment.

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Feb 11 2014
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A Rant For You – A Rant For us

The Internet has made us more cognizant our joy/happiness or lack thereof than ever before.

Collectively, we spend billions of hours locked into the small screens on our desks or in our palms watching the highlight reels of people we really don’t know.

We see their sepia filtered moments, compare it to our Sochi-filled night, and, in doing so, feel…less. Less fulfilled. Empty of excitement. Low on joy.

We don’t do this on purpose and it was never the goal of the medium’s creator(s). It has just become the norm of what such mediums now hold and when everyone on the planet owns their own media company (and they do now), eventually, “look at me” becomes the chorus of the music the masses posts.

Constant comparison is the hidden thief of our divine moments. Secret: there’s no such thing as a moment that’s not divine.

Click your own like button and see the three-dimensional world before through your own filters.

Then report back and change us.

I bet we’ll click your like button too.

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Feb 10 2014
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A Happy Medium

So who is right? The artist or the scientist?

The artist, with his art instrument clutched in hand, feels a certain way and then paints what he feels. He felt something and, in doing so, found he is right. “You’ll see”, he says.

The scientist, with her proven algorithms and spreadsheets on display, has consistent, repeatable, and predictable proof. What goes up must come down. She knows she’s right. “Wanna make a bet?”, she says.

Back to the original question…who is right between these two? Thought: Just because the artist and scientist clash on their process of getting to what is true doesn’t make one of them wrong.

Leadership, today, recognizes that – simultaneously – the arts (if one finds joy in their experience) and the sciences (if proven in their research) are both right.

So what are you making with your life, your family, and your business? Whatever your answer is here I think, in order to be fulfilled, you need a dash of the both the arts and the sciences.

Some need to see it to believe it. Some need to feel it to believe it. But we all will believe something within an experience that lets us both feel and see.

And that’s what you’re here to give us: that thing you can explain and that thing you can’t explain. 

You’ve got a big job don’t you?

Happy Monday in your happy mediums.

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Feb 07 2014
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Invitation

Your music request the pleasure of your company to come and dance, to see and play, to hear and be, and be one.

When: Every day.

Where: Everywhere.

Meaning, purpose, and fulfillment to follow.

RSVP Is Not Required.

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