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Feb 12 2014
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, success

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 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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Feb 04 2014
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I’d Rather Be A Comma, Than A Full Stop

May you, today, be the comma that shines a light for another to be a comma that shines a light for another to be a comma X infinity and beyond.

And now another way to say #LTMP.

I turn the music up,
Got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on
Maybe the streets alight,
Maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song

And all the kids they dance
All the kids all night
Until Monday morning feels another life
I turn the music up
I’m on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight

I turn the music up,
I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Don’t want to see another generation drop
I’d rather be a comma, than a full stop

Maybe I’m in the black
Maybe I’m on my knees
Maybe I’m in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart

As we saw, oh this light
I swear you emerge blinking into
To tell me it’s alright
As we soar walls
Every siren is a symphony
And every tears a waterfall

Is a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Every teardrop
Is a waterfall

So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I’ll raise the flag

It was a waterfall
A waterfall

Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall

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Jan 31 2014
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What The Sunrise Said

What happens when the arts, a poetic experience, and the metaphor of music become the backbone of our lives, our families, and our economy?

I think only the future holds this answer, but it’s our role to move into the question and become the answer as the future unfolds.

You have a canvas. This canvas we speak of is your life. If you can, splash it with colors of joy, bravery, and whimsy…shadow it with purpose, meaning, and fullfilment…frame it with hope.

You have a stage. This stage is your business or your place to make change. And on that stage you probably have a phone that is a radio, that is a media company, that is the pony express, and that is your microphone and gateway to the world.

You have some sort of family…be it through blood or relationship. It’s your job to provide its theme.

This place is becoming less and less about science and arithmetic and more and more about the arts, music, and poetry.

This is what the sunrise has been trying to get us to hear.

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