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Jan 28 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Finish Lines and Fights Without A Winner

Today I celebrate my 10,950th sunrise on planet Earth.

Here’s a quick rant and recap of what I’ve found (or what’s found me) in these sunrises….

Before age 22 everything is about the finish line: finish your veggies, finish your paper, finish studying, finish high school, finish college, finish your resume, etc.

And while all these things can be finished…they still leave us longing for more. I believe the longing comes from not being responsible for the start of what you were asked to finish. The veggies were forced (for good reason of course), as was the test, the paper, school, and probably the resume. None of this was our idea, so when they were finished we were…well…finished…and finished does not necessarily translate into satisfied or fulfilled when it is something you didn’t think to start.

Perhaps it is simply permission to start something that our youth needs – not necessarily the “opportunity.”

Today I’ve found that what I’m truly after doesn’t have a finish line and every day in this pursuit feels as though it’s day one. To be able to write, understand, and speak this is richness found in my life.

I don’t want to finish growing, being a father, being a husband, or being a thought leader…a finish line is the furthest thing from my mind in regards to these pursuits.

If you’ve never been given permission to start…consider this your invitation.

Secondly, two years ago I began to learn and study things that truly excited me. Things like high performance, building things with meaning, living at your full potential, and living a great story.

I’ve found for all these things to happen there’s a fight.

We fight for experience against resistance with intention.

We fight for connection against resistance with soul.

We fight for awareness against resistance with focus.

Nevertheless, this is a fight that never ends…we can only hope to contain the resistance that blocks our efforts for experience, connection, awareness, meaning, and hope.

In all reality, resistance makes all of these things worth the pursuit…so either welcome him to the ring or don’t be shocked when he arrives.

Forget the finish line and fight the fight tooth and nail.

For me, this is what 30 looks like.

PS – This is a rant – and should not be graded with a gramatical lens.

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Jan 25 2013
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Paralyzed

Paralyzed: To make unable to move or act due to:

  • previous experiences
  • pretending/acting
  • shame
  • fear
  • what if?
  • what will they say?
  • what if I fail?
  • what if something bad happens?

Give in to just one of these and you run the risk of pulling the pen for the grenade on your thing, idea, service, product, art, or music.

Don’t look backwards and careful with the questions you ask yourself. Sure you can connect the dots looking backwards, but we’re all wanting help connecting the hidden dots of what lies ahead of us.

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Jan 24 2013
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Business, Change The World, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music

Is There a Crowd?

The most simple way to test your music is to look out and gauge the crowd. Or ask the question, “Is there a crowd?”

Noise is selfish. It writes its tunes in the key of “what’s in it for me.”

A true musician gets his fix on the response of his followers…i.e. what’s in it for them?

Did it move them? Did it take them somewhere? Did they experience something?

How are your ticket sales?

That’s a serious question with a serious answer.

Don’t blame your booking agent with your answer. He didn’t write your music.

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Jan 23 2013
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If LTMPblog has a hope, it’s that you would recognize the opportunity in this moment, be constantly conscious of the possibility found in now, and always have an ear working to decipher the music that could be.

We rarely remember news reporters – those that report back to us on the past. Rather, we adore and hold high the discoverer, the creator , and the luminary…those that spotlight the new.

In every day and in every now the page is blank and the pen is full.

True work is the kind that puts the ink on the paper.

The Old Is Gone And The New Is Waiting To Be Written

Jan 22 2013
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Odds

If you’re ok with…

  • 99 ‘no’s’ for every ‘yes’.
  • Challenges exceeding your plans.
  • No Plan B.

The odds will be ever in your favor.

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