183 days ago,
4,392 hours ago,
263,520 minutes ago,
15,811,200 seconds ago you declared movement towards a goal or goals.
Well?
You’ve got 183 days left,
4,392 hours to go,
263,520 minutes available,
and 15,811,200 seconds to grab what you said you would reach for.
Obsess over the inches.
Love the grind.
Go.
Finish it.
One of my heroes, Howard Brinton, often says, “get out of judgement and into curiosity.”
Don’t judge the new system. Get curious about the results.
Don’t judge the book cover. Open it. Read it.
Don’t judge the song in the first 20 seconds in. Listen fully.
Your life will alway feel like it’s in rewind when judgement rules the mind.
Curiosity is the precursor of all forward progression.
So to get from point A to point B, we’ve got to start asking questions, wondering why, finding why, understanding what’s written between the lines, and reporting back.
Response and speed will be the competitive advantages the great enterprises seek in the decades to come.
You can own any market with a simple 3 step formula:
1). Find the market.
2). Identify the market’s needs.
3). Respond with a remedy.
Could it be more simple?
Of course your remedy response is the most courageous step you’ll have to take, but he who can boldly take these three steps the fastest wins in the marketplace.
And after you respond with a remedy to the need – keep listening.
We love when our favorite bands and businesses actually play the music we requests.
One of the bedrock rules of kindergarten is back: share.
Your social media platform will not succeed without sharing.
Your mentorship with a young lad is contingent on the sharing of your hard knock knowledge.
Your business will thrive with the information it shares.
Share. Then share some more.
Rest assured, you will get more than you give.
Alas, in this brave new world you are what you share.
“The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus … By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.” Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Making music, for purposes of this blog, is a metaphor for success. It is great news that music can’t be defined. No one, wants someone outside of them defining what success looks like for them. But it can be pinpointed.
Something inside of us is stirred when communication, instrumentation, rhythmic togetherness, originality, improvisation, passionate energy, and a message of hope connects and combines simultaneously.
Success, Letting The (your) Music Play, is that stir that I speak of.
Ashton.Gustafson 