an email,
a call,
a note,
a meeting,
an idea,
a service,
or a product.
But if it doesn’t end with trust then why even start in the first place?
Trust is the cohesive hope of our connections, communications, and commerce…She’s also the repeat button we push for our favorite music and artists.
Dwell well today, friends.
Where’s the so-called middle man? The promoter, the publisher, and the “retailer”. Hard to find him, isn’t it?
Our network economy has become the middle man itself. The web is now the middle, the market, and the space where the magic happens.
Think about it. In a way your book sits right next to Stephen King’s book on Amazon’s shelf, your album is in the same iTunes jukebox with U2, and your ideas are one click away from Einstein’s. This was not the case in 1995.
This entry is for our awareness in the commercial shift from places to spaces.
We must realize the economy of the world is not headed towards more physical places, but rather ONE space we can interact, produce, create, communicate, and share in.
You and your ideas don’t need a storefront, they just need to connect with the right people and ideas in the space we call the web.
Hope helps perseverance endure.
Gratitude helps reduce the swell of pride.
Steadiness helps keep you in the race.
Vision helps shape your future.
Awareness helps accelerate serendipity.
Commitment helps fight the urge to surrender.
Attitude helps the flavor of your response(s).
Priorities help ensure progress.
Use and pursue these helpers. They’re here to help.
Conventional wisdom is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field.
But it has a hard time predicting what really will unfold.
It didn’t plan on Wichita State being in the Final Four.
It never saw the potential for a billion Facebook users.
And it has a hard time defining and wrapping its hands around art, beauty, experience, fulfillment, and meaning.
So why buy into it?
Why pursue it at the cost of losing everything you are actually after?
Metaphorically, all of us want a green jacket in something. But here’s the deal – all of the green jacket owners you have seen or know have taken very unconventional paths to get there.
Shape your shots and release yourself from the crutch of conventional thinking.
You are a musician.
The music your life is capable is astounding.
It’s a choice.
It’s a choice worth making.
We need you, your conscience, your passions, your talents, and your gifts. Collectively, they are your music and your dent in the world.
If no one has ever told you anything like this, print this out and put it in your pocket.
#LTMP
Ashton.Gustafson 
