Category Archives: Discipline

Bravery

Noise that I speak of on this blog is basically the aftermath of unnoticed, mundane, getting by on getting by, average, just enough to break even, everyday, routine actions.

Notice that noise is not necessarily bad – and that is why we typically settle there. Noise is safe. Noise floats the lazy river. Noise is Groundhog Day kind of life.

Music, on the other hand, requires musicianship, multiple instruments, all instruments tuned, all instruments in the same key, all musicians and instruments in communication, creativity, rhythm, imagination, practice, sore fingers, sore throats, and time…lots of time.

If your taking account of your life on the Noise/Music scale, and noise is outweighing the music, question your bravery.

It’s bravery that takes the stage,

it’s bravery that grabs the mic,

it’s bravery that writes the poem,

its’ bravery that gives the poem,

it’s bravery that chooses to walk-on,

it’s bravery that creates the future,

it’s bravery that launches the website or business,

it’s bravery that starts a band,

it’s bravery that starts a book,

it’s bravery that loves the family,

it’s bravery that moves to Broadway without lead role,

it’s bravery that serves the church,

it’s bravery that changes the world,

and it’s bravery that lets the music play.

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Halftime

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.

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Take Out The Trash

Luck exists.

I don’t have the time.

Tomorrow will come.

You are born successful.

It’s just a dream.

Just wait and you will see.

I’m not schooled enough.

It’s not worth it.

I can’t _______.

We whisper these words under our breath all too often. And they’re heavy too. So heavy that we’re going to have to drag them to the trash every morning.

Resistance loves when we forget to take the trash to the curb.

But our soul is free to fly when we hear the trash man drive off with our kryptonite.

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Judgement and Curiosity

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.

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