Category Archives: Let The Music Play

The Same Kind of DIfferent

The more I travel and share with people the more often I’m getting asked what to do.

“What should I be doing?” And “What would you do?” are consistently the most often asked questions during our post talk Q & A’s.

Here’s the catch: they haven’t discovered or tapped into their music.

When you can define your why you will have framed the music you will make. Success is your purpose, meaning, and fulfillment….yours. Not the guy next to you – yours.

Some music begins with a small business and then ends with a white picket fence. Some music begins with a non-profit purpose, has a bridge of relationships, and ends with dinner and a movie. Nevertheless, you can’t say it’s this and you can’t say it’s that.

What I’m getting at is only you can define your success. Webster gave us a generic description, but it’s up to you nail it’s definition down for you.

We’re as much different as we are the same.

Whatever definition you arrive at, I do know this – it ends daily with sleeping well.

Goodnight.

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Charleston, SC

I’m speaking in Charleston, SC this morning on making music with your life, family, and business.

Going for three years running now, Charleston has been called one of the best places to live and travel to.

Their formula?

Be friendly. Eat well. Breathe deep.

Life, family, and business can’t help but be drawn to such aspects of what it means to be human.

Thank you Charleston for showing us the way and the warm welcome. It’s easy to see why everyone is ‘friending’ you.

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Music: What It Is & What It Isn’t

Music is learned.

Music is made.

Music is inspired.

Music is intentional.

Music isn’t random.

Music isn’t made by chance.

And music isn’t created by the lucky few.

Pursue your ideals.

Obey your conscience.

Bend with your giftings.

Romance your instruments.

Take your time.

Get it right.

This thing – The Music – is what we’re all after.

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Invitation

Your music request the pleasure of your company to come and dance, to see and play, to hear and be, and be one.

When: Every day.

Where: Everywhere.

Meaning, purpose, and fulfillment to follow.

RSVP Is Not Required.

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I’d Rather Be A Comma, Than A Full Stop

May you, today, be the comma that shines a light for another to be a comma that shines a light for another to be a comma X infinity and beyond.

And now another way to say #LTMP.

I turn the music up,
Got my records on
I shut the world outside until the lights come on
Maybe the streets alight,
Maybe the trees are gone
I feel my heart start beating to my favorite song

And all the kids they dance
All the kids all night
Until Monday morning feels another life
I turn the music up
I’m on a roll this time
And heaven is in sight

I turn the music up,
I got my records on
From underneath the rubble sing a rebel song
Don’t want to see another generation drop
I’d rather be a comma, than a full stop

Maybe I’m in the black
Maybe I’m on my knees
Maybe I’m in the gap between the two trapezes
But my heart is beating and my pulses start
Cathedrals in my heart

As we saw, oh this light
I swear you emerge blinking into
To tell me it’s alright
As we soar walls
Every siren is a symphony
And every tears a waterfall

Is a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Is a waterfall
Every teardrop
Is a waterfall

So you can hurt, hurt me bad
But still I’ll raise the flag

It was a waterfall
A waterfall

Every tear
Every tear
Every teardrop is a waterfall

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