Your music is yours and only yours.
The same goes for your story.
Own it.
Make it.
Create it.
Lead it.
Speak it.
Breathe it.
Live it.
Share it.
These are the things no one can take from you – AND, they are your competitive advantage as well.
This is the good news of all things entrepreneurial.
Q: Why am I here?
A: _________________________
Q What are my goals?
A: _________________________
Q: Where am I going?
A: _________________________
Q: What keeps me up at night?
A: _________________________
Q: What is my story?
A:__________________________
Q: What is my music?
A:__________________________
Not enough of us are brave enough to ask these questions – and even less of us are brave enough to find the answers.
Want to dent the world? Start asking questions.
Want to change the world? Start finding and creating answers.
Sure you can slow up a bit today. It’s Friday, right?
The problem is this temporary pause will only lead you to needing a jump-start 72 hours from now on Monday.
Put another log on the fire.
75 days ago my life changed.
I wrote down my Definite Chief Aim as Napoleon Hill encourages us to do.
Meaningful Specific > Wandering Generality.
I now read this allowed twice a day and carry it with me wherever I go.
I also met a guy named Grant Cardone who encouraged me to write out my goals and dreams twice a day at morning and night. It should be noted he encouraged me to write them in the present – as if they had already happened. This is action is full of power.
In the last 75 days I’ve seen more focus, more productivity, more fulfillment than I ever thought possible. Across all lines – family, life, business – everything has become richer and grown deeper roots.
When the dream leaves your mind and hits the paper it becomes physical. You no longer have to picture it – you can actually see it.
Now I’m finally getting clarity on where this train is headed.
I hope these steps can help you in the same way.
Godspeed in your music making.
There’s a great leadership scene in the movie Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams, (the teacher/leader), gets up on his classroom desk and says, “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
Leadership takes its followers on a journey.
Leadership does not allow its followers thoughts and actions to remain idle.
Leadership doesn’t just like change – leadership creates and paves the way for change.
Leadership longs for its followers to experience discovery.
Leadership gets its fix on getting its followers from point a to point z.
Leadership provides the paint and canvas.
Leadership gives away the musical instruments, provides the music lessons, and then goes and find a stage for the follower to perform.
True leadership has its full focus on the followers and the movement they can co-create together.
Ashton.Gustafson 