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Feb 03 2014
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Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

The Cost of Music as Compared to Noise

One of the great pursuits of this life is to determine and discover what your music is and is to be. You do this by using your God-given talents, pursuing your passions, and adhering to the ideals that you find worthy of such pursuit. These are also known as your instruments.

But there is a cost.

To say yes to one thing, one must say no to another thing.

Henry David Thoreau  once wrote, “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

Which is why so many choose noise. It’s cheap. It’s easy. It’s a quick fix. It’s a life of instant gratification.

Music, on the other hand, requires romance…a long waltz in time with one’s instruments.

It’s the worth the cost as dividends are a friend of music.

 

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Jan 31 2014
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Awareness, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

What The Sunrise Said

What happens when the arts, a poetic experience, and the metaphor of music become the backbone of our lives, our families, and our economy?

I think only the future holds this answer, but it’s our role to move into the question and become the answer as the future unfolds.

You have a canvas. This canvas we speak of is your life. If you can, splash it with colors of joy, bravery, and whimsy…shadow it with purpose, meaning, and fullfilment…frame it with hope.

You have a stage. This stage is your business or your place to make change. And on that stage you probably have a phone that is a radio, that is a media company, that is the pony express, and that is your microphone and gateway to the world.

You have some sort of family…be it through blood or relationship. It’s your job to provide its theme.

This place is becoming less and less about science and arithmetic and more and more about the arts, music, and poetry.

This is what the sunrise has been trying to get us to hear.

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Jan 30 2014
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Unplugged From the Ether

Approximately 90% of 4 years old have test results that show them to be creative. Just 1000 days later in their life, once they are at 7 years of age, this same group only shows to have 4% that show signs of a knack for creativity.

How does this happen?

Someone told them so. Someone told them to color within the lines. Someone told them to stay in line. Someone pulled the plug that, literally, they were born with.

There’s a reason a gold medal in passing exams doesn’t equate to a better world, healthy economies, and job growth.

One would have to believe that with these statistics it is safe to assume that probably only 1 in 100 after the age of 18 approach their days with the lense of creativity.

Leaders, parents, teachers, mentors, and coaches…If you can do one thing today, please plug your people back into the ether.

Jan 28 2014
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The Point

“But tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than the present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.” Alan W. Watts

This moment is the point.

This hour holds the point.

And the next hour will hold its own point.

Moment to moment, connection to connection, conversation to conversation, hand to hand, and soul to soul….to be IN and to be ONE with our moments is the point.

All of your experiences thus far point directly to this reality:  You were meant and created to make your music right now.

There’s a billion points the world will convince to bet the farm on, but there’s truly only one to go all in on: your music.

Let it play.

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Jan 27 2014
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An Inward Look At Your Outlook

Show me your outlook and I’ll show you your forecast.

Show me your forecast and I’ll show you the weather you’ll walk in tomorrow.

So be careful with what you think and speak…most of it, in some form, will come true.

Alas, in between our ears is the one place we can control the weather.

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