My Morning Jacket released their latest record this week, The Waterfall. This record glows the soul and is guaranteed to take you on a journey this spring. Download it here and if you can, find a way to go catch one of their shows. You’ll be glad you did.
This backwards reality is the opposite of what we’ve been taught, and yet the leaders of tomorrow – in any field – are starting to understand and see this as the way.
Once you’ve poured something out only then will you have made room to soak something in.
Yes, to get it right, we’re going to have to get it backwards.
In this episode we talk about losing the proverbial scorecard and opening our lives to the possibility and abundance that surrounds us when we do the hard work of creating meaningful lives.
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Podcast Topic
This podcast we talk about gaining awareness to the things that on our metaphorical radio dials and how they play into our being, lives, relationships, and businesses.
Book
The book we discuss in this episode is Let Your Life Speak by Parker J. Palmer. I read this book over the weekend and I plan on rereading it again this coming weekend again. It is b.e.a.utiful.
In the podcast I read some segments of the book that discuss living out of and into your true self, the issue of burnout, and the gift you become to the world as your music plays.
For more information on Parker J. Palmer, be sure to visit http://www.couragerenewal.org/. And if you know Parker, be sure to tell him his words have changed a young lad in Texas.
Music
This week we check out a new up and coming artists, James Bay. Not long ago I was driving and heard his voice come through my radio. In an instant I knew his riffs, lyrics, and tone had something to teach me.
Be sure to visit his site at http://www.jamesbay.com/ and purchase his latest record in iTunes by clicking here.
I loved his lyrics in his song, Let It Go.
But now we’re sleeping at the edge –Holding something we don’t need
All this delusion in our heads – Is gonna bring us to our knees
So come on let it go
Just let it be
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me
Everything’s that’s broke
Leave it to the breeze
Why don’t you be you
And I’ll be me
Thoughts
So what’s on your radio dial?
The last five books you’ve read will write the prescription for your next pair of glasses.
You are the average of your five closest friends.
The last five songs you’ve heard will be what you’ll be whistling.
Awareness of such proximity is the great predictor of the people, paths, and melodies that will write the soundtrack of our stories.
Ashton.Gustafson 