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Dec 11 2013
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Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, success

You Saw It, You Just Missed It

Your hand is on a computer mouse, smart phone, keyboard, or laptop right now. Have you blocked that fact out? Jobs saw this coming in the 80’s while hacking away in his garage.

There’s probably a lightbulb buzzing around you right now. Did you miss that? Edison sat in the dark and saw this moment for us in 1879.

The rising sun is casting neon rays against the clouds and across the horizon. Did you catch that? Or was it blotted out by a Starbucks sign? Could you capture that beauty and put a fraction of it into what you make today?

The rose is in bloom. Are you?

And people. What about people? What about souls? Are they data and statistics? Or are they the ocean of your experience?

Most often, it’s not that you can’t see what’s around you. Oh you can see alright! Rather, it’s simply that you’re not looking. Or, you’re not looking for the right things in the odd and rare places they can found.

Look.

Whatever you’re looking for, you can find it anywhere. And typically, when we’re looking for something we see it everywhere.

So the BIG question is what are you looking for? Hope? A pity party? Passion? Joy? Profit? A deal? The next rung on the ladder? Measurement? Yourself? Experience? Meaning?

In a world powered by your music, we give all too much attention to the noise around us.

Before I hit publish I prayed that you would have whatever moment, person, experience, or thought you need to see today.

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Nov 26 2013
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If you don’t make a difference…

then what do you make?

Full disclosure, I’m not sure of the exact answer, or if there is one specific answer. But it’s probably, metaphorically, some form of noise. Something unnoticed. Something lost in the mix.

A life that makes a difference is one that points or leads in a way in which people or things are not the same after being encountered to it.

Your music is the difference you’re here to make.

Noise bounces.

Music sticks.

Finally, The Game has a name: Change.

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Nov 25 2013
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A Life: That Which Cannot Be Put Into Words….and Reciprocation: AKA More X More.

Victor Hugo once said ‘music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.’

The same can be said for our lives.

In the end, your music will be what we call your life and your life will be what we call (and what you call) your music.

Few of our spoken words will hang frozen in time, but our action and love will echo for ages.

Couple this idea with Shakespeare’s thoughts, ‘If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it.” This now takes us into the law of reciprocation in which all areas of our lives can benefit.

The pursuit of more life begets a deeper and wider life.

The pursuit of more love begets deeper and wider love.

The pursuit of more music begets deeper and wider music (remember, this is that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent).

More X More = More and More and More and More.

Life, love, and music, when pursued, reciprocate the pursuit with themselves and there’s a fountain flowing deep and wide.

 

Nov 22 2013
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Music: The Gift of the Musician

As much as we may think music about the musician, it’s not about him or her.

When we make our music we find ourself in an experience full of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. Simultaneously, we’re giving a gift to the world.

Imagine a joy so unexplainable that it spills over and gives joy to those who encounter it.

That is what happens when we make our music. We swap joy.

Giving > Receiving.

 

 

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Nov 20 2013
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Paying Homage

Think of those things you honor and respect.

These could be people, ideas, principles, relationships, values, hobbies, etc.

When we daily pay homage to these things, we get in return a form of mutual respect.

The instrument(s) we play, or long to play, will respect our respect of the time involved to get to know them and their ways.

However, you can only appropriately pay homage to a few things well.

Example: If you want your life’s music to be about Generosity, then sit with her often. Ask her to show you her ways. Honor her and respect her history of success. Ask her to lead you into your experiences. Learn the threads that weave the warmth in her blanket over mankind. Eventually, Generosity will take notice of your time and studious approach and you will be leading a generous life.

In other words, where does a pianist sit? With his piano.

Whatever you choose to honor daily, choose with the hope and aim of music in the end. This will help you decipher between honoring and respecting something that leads to noise and something that will eventually lead to music.

Mutual respect and honor between musicians and their instruments just may be the holy formula of symphony.

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