The worthiest of goals, the most meaningful of rewards, and the base ingredient to success.
You get what you give.
It’s been said that language is the currency of the mind.
It’s also been said that music is the universal language.
Mind your music and the world around you will begin to mind your business.
Chances are you cannot recall what you ate for dinner two nights ago, the bullet points of last night’s State of the Union Address, or the majority of your emails received yesterday.
Nevertheless, today we all will divinely cross paths with someone needing us in a special moment. A defining moment conducted, designed, and orchestrated via the Muse.
It could look like doctor with patient, Realtor with buyer, mother with child, cop with victim, banker with businessman, coach with player, teacher with student, pastor with church member, barista with coffee lover, leader with follower, or counselor with shaken soul.
While this moment may be an everyday experience for you, chances are it’s a frozen moment in time for your customer, user, client, or child.
Your art and music will change when you realize that the receiver of your art and music will revisit this moment often.
Really. We need awareness of just how significant our moments are.
This moment may not define you, but it most definitely will define something about the other party involved in this moment.
“Get a job.” That’s the mantra that upper level education has seared into our minds. And yet, today, it’s been harder than ever to find “that” job that you listened, studied, memorized, and tested four plus years for.
Perhaps this whole job pursuit is overrated? For instance, I know numerous people much smarter and better educated than I ever will be that are in the “perfect” job they prepared for. All to find that “perfect” place to be empty of experience, fulfillment, and meaning.
Rather, what if the pursuit was a search for a medium, a platform, a canvas, or a stage for you to express yourself and expose the world to what you feel, hear, and see that the rest of us don’t see but need to see?
You see, they took our Crayons from us when we got to junior high and we’ve been lost without them ever since. In the blink of an eye, our education experience went from being look what I painted, colored, or made to look who’s on the A team, look who’s pretty, or look who’s cool. One day we’re all in the talent show, the next day we’re lucky to be in the crowd watching the talent show.
If LTMPblog has any hope or purpose at all, may it be that it helps to spur you or any reader to find that something or some place that the world sees in black in white, but you see in color. If so, I believe you will have found your job. But please, at the proverbial cocktail parties don’t just tell people what you “do”. Instead, enlighten them to that which you expose. Entrepreneurs, artists, leaders, and world-changers are those that expose us to the colors unseen.
Your Box of Crayons > Your Diploma
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