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Oct 25 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

Persistence: The Choice Of Greatness

When it comes to persistence, it will never be a necessary conversation without a specific desire.

A desire to do and become a part of something great.

Experience, meaning, fulfillment, and purpose are the shadows of that greatness desired.

Nevertheless, we will face pushback, setbacks, walls, and locked doors.

And so we must choose.

Choose to persist.

And choose to persist again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

Persist today and somehow, someway, there will be enough grace to persist tomorrow. That’s how our Muse rolls.

Dream great dreams. Expect resistance. Choose persistence.

It’s a choice and only your can choose it. Never forget that.

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Oct 23 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music, success

It could take 1, it could take 500, it could take 10,000

Approximately two years ago, on November 1, 2011, my fingers graced the key board and the mouse clicked ‘publish’ for my first post at LTMPblog.com.

Since then I’ve seen great successes, massive set backs, glorious moments, rough days, holy days, and a mix of almost every human emotion we can experience. I’m sure you share the same story over the last 24 months as well. Nevertheless, every weekday morning, with very few exceptions, I’ve shown up here in the rawest state possible to give some generosity of thought on the pursuit of making music with our lives, families, and businesses.

Today marks my 500th post at LTMPblog.com.

You may have just found these thoughts. If so, welcome. Or you may have been here from the start. If so, thank you.

For me, the most beautiful aspect of this blog is that the original hope is 100% fully intact: that this would be a place we all would – together – be moved, molded, and changed into the musicians we’re all meant to become.

Thank you for walking with me on the path to better, greater, and more meaningful music for our days.

We’re just in the beginning of this symphony that’s unfolding and it could take 1, 500, or 10,000 thoughts for this blog’s mission to be fulfilled.

Whatever the case, I’ll be here.

LTMP.

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Oct 18 2013
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Revolutions and the art of gardening

Revolutions follow the law of process and the law of cause and effect.

A heart revolution will start a mind revolution that starts a hands revolution that sparks an action revolution that leads to a change for the better revolution.

If you want a revolution on your hands that will eventually dent the world, it must first start in your chest.

Nevertheless, the act of gardening > knowing how your garden grows.

You say you want a revolution? Think heart, think soil, think gardening, then let the Muse do His thing.

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Oct 16 2013
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The Inches In Our Milestones

Obsess over the inches in your life and you’ll love your mileage you’ve covered looking backwards.

Obsess over your milestones in life and your inches will frustrate you, be overlooked, and probably under appreciated.

Aim small. Miss small.

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Oct 14 2013
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Losing Time & Finding Codes

I found an excerpt over the weekend from a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to his eleven year old son in 1915. At that time Einstein was thirty-six. He wrote…

…I am very pleased that you find joy with the piano. This and carpentry are in my opinion for your age the best pursuits, better even than school. Because those are things which fit a young person such as you very well. Mainly play the things on the piano which please you, even if the teacher does not assign those. That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal. . . .

There’s a lot of beauty unfolding here in these words. For one, Einstein is promoting the creative. Could it be that we learn more while our imagination is decoding the world around us then we do reading what has already been decoded? Secondly, he asks his son to shelf the sheet music and get lost in and with the keys of the piano. What romance there is in the three-step waltz of work, art, and possibility. And lastly, Einstein reveres time. He’s aware of just how holy it is and how today is all that is confirmed in our stories.

Of course we can’t always accomplish such a feat, but what a worthy goal of our days to enter into moments where we fully pursue our art, our parenting, our leading, and our serving with such holiness that we lose track of time, but walk away with a vault of codes as to how things are.

LTMP.

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