In business, find customers.
In relationships, find connection.
In life, find your music.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
Category Archives: Let The Music Play
A Full Day
Just how bright can you make today?
Quite bright if you’re purposeful. You do this by being full of purpose.
Just how radiant can you find today?
Very radiant if you look for what’s wonderful. You get full of wonder when you fill yourself with wonder.
How much illumination can you pull from today?
An endless amount when you’re willing to be meaningful in your moments. We are all metaphors. What shadow do you cast?
Celebrating Possibility > Succumbing to the Unknown.
Alas, full days lead to full lives and even brighter futures.
Branding
Chaplin.
Sinatra.
Crosby.
Picasso.
Timberlake.
Jobs.
Gates.
Buffet.
Bloomberg.
Wynn.
Now let’s leave fame, because the brand is there long before any name recognition is realized.
Dad.
Mom.
Friend.
And what about you?
Branding is about ora…it’s about what lingers even when you’re not present. Branding is what is held in the reflection of one’s memory.
If it’s not on your resume, consider it branding. Because you can’t do branding. You simply live in a way that gives out an energy, taste, vibe, or experience that in the end is the brand.
Day in build, polish, mold, test, and discover what it means to be you and develop your brand. Day out, repeat.
It’s work to stand for something worth remarking on.
Let it be.
Enter Today
It’s not yesterday. And it’s not tomorrow.
There are some handshakes approaching today. Be there. Be there with them. Lock hands, lock eyes.
There’s a hug you’re to give you in your story today. Give it well. Leave the recipient better than you found them.
Discover something new. Smile in reflection of the newness now known.
Tend your metaphorical gardens of life, relationships, and business. Till the field. Sow some seeds. Pray for rain. Harvest if something’s ripe.
Turn a stranger into a friend.
Breathe.
Laugh. Laugh hard.
See what the sun is touching. See all of it. There’s enough light to not just look, but also see.
And stop and listen to today.
Be still and quiet enough so that you may hear what today is trying to relay your way.
It’s alive. It’s with us. It’s here. It’s now.
Will you join all of the music that is unfolding around you today?
Music is 1% possibility and 99% participation.
Say yes.
An Intermediary
That is your job.
Wherever you are.
You are here to be what connects us to the unconnected.
Without you we would not have known, seen, tasted, experienced, or maybe even conceived whatever you brought our way.
Somewhere in you there’s a light. It could be in your head, in your eyes, in your gut, or in your chest.
Wherever it may be is irrelevant.
Just let it shine.
You are our middle man and we need to be shown the way.
Ashton.Gustafson 