Create a product. Shift. Create art.
Compete. Shift. Dominate.
Manage. Shift. Lead.
Read the news. Shift. Be the news.
Wish. Shift. Will.
Sell. Shift. Serve.
Make noise. Shift. Make music.
The fortune, fun, and fulfillment is found in the shift.
To conquer fear you must take it on fight, after fight, after fight. Don’t allow it go viral in or around you. Daily wash your hands of it and slowly it will lose its effect on you.
When adversity hits, take it on full speed. Power through. Remember it’s typically a sign from the Muse you’re on the RIGHT path. Preparation is penicillin to adversity.
Careful with ‘yes’. ‘Yes’ to an hour in your inbox leads to and hour on YouTube. 120 minutes gone all because you said ‘yes’. Awareness is the Z-Pak to the ‘Yes’ Virus.
These are costly viruses with one goal: attacking your creativity. And you have no insurance or deductible to meet that will protect you from them.
You don’t learn a second language just by studying its principles, taking a course, or even buying Rosetta Stone.
One learns any language when they make the choice to immerse themselves in the world that the language is spoken in.
Want to learn spanish. Move to Mexico City.
Want to learn how to code a webpage. Find a month to month apartment in Palo Alto and knock on your neighbor’s door. Ask him.
Frustrated and confused by the music industry. Move to Nashville and listen to the locals.
Have a dream for a career in fashion? They speak that here.
You can probably connect most, if not all, of one’s strife in their career path to their lack of understanding the language of their industry. Or to it put another way, frustration comes from not fully understanding (for good or bad) just how things are in a specific sector.
Jump in. No floaties. Immerse yourself. Soon you’ll be on your way and know what you’re talking about.
Go.
Go do good.
Go do something.
Go do something that matters.
Go do something that matters to you.
Go do something that matters for others.
Break through the noise…make your music…change the world.
It would be…
uncomfortable.
4 quarters plus overtime.
easier to give up than to keep going.
inconvenient.
practice intensive.
up to you to win.
Ashton.Gustafson 