Category Archives: Let The Music Play

Dec 09 2011
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play

The Ways Of Love Are The Way To Music

Love never gives up.   

Love cares more for others than for self.   

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.   

Love doesn’t strut,   

Doesn’t have a swelled head,   

Doesn’t force itself on others,   

Isn’t always “me first,”   

Doesn’t fly off the handle,   

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,   

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,   

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,   

Puts up with anything,   

Trusts God always,   

Always looks for the best,   

Never looks back,   

But keeps going to the end.  The Message 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now we can answers Tina Turner’s question.

What’s love got to do with it? Everything.

Love is in the business of challenging the status quo.

Without it our souls, our businesses, and our lives are bankrupt.

With it we can orchestrate wonderful music and the world around us will join in with song and dance.

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Nov 29 2011
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Business, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Marketing, Real Estate

We Need You

“The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music is my metaphor for successful living. When we get out of bed everyday, pursue our values, engage our passions, and challenge the status quo – the result is a a life of beautiful and unique music.

This comes in many forms: a job well done, a child well loved, a paper well written, a garden well grown, or actually – a song well written.

I don’t want to die with my music still in me, and I don’t want that for you either.

Your family longs to hear your music.

Your clients love to experience your music.

The world is waiting to be moved by your music.

No one else can write the music we need from you like you can.

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Nov 24 2011
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Business, Leadership, Let The Music Play

Thankfulness

We feel different today because thankfulness is overwhelmingly present. Today it owns our conversations, tweets, and status updates. Feels good doesn’t it? Feels right. Feels as it should be.

Thankfulness gets all the credit today, but it’s really about awareness – stopping, seeing, and dwelling on all the good that surrounds us. Awareness precedes thankfulness.

A simple thank you gives fuel to the servant to go and serve again…AND it deposits a dose of gratefulness into the heart of the one who was served. Thankfulness is not a oneway street, it’s a roundabout.

What if we repeated this day over the next 364 days?

Happy Awareness Day.

-Ashton

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Nov 23 2011
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Music to my ears.

“…._______ is music to my ears.”

The most important part in the previous sentence is the “blank“________. The goal of every leader, husband, and dad is to determine what that “blank” is and provide a means to fill it. Fill in the blank and music enters the recipient’s ears.

The first commandment is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” God asks for the blank to be filled with us loving with heart, soul, mind, and strength – THAT is music to His ears.

This leads to an interesting take on the second commandment, The Golden Rule. When you love your neighbor as yourself, you leave your shoes, enter your neighbors shoes, and ask “would that, fill in the blank, be music these shoes would dance to?”

A husband that loves his wife like he loves himself, a dad that loves his daughter like he loves himself, and a leader that loves his customer like he loves himself composes music that his wife, daughter, and client have no choice but to moonwalk to.

The scriptures claim “There is no commandment greater than these.” Focus on these two commandments and the music will play.

He who fills in the blank is bestowed the title of maestro – and any business, parenting, and relationship plan that follows this blueprint wins.

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Nov 17 2011
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Business, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Marketing, Music, Real Estate

Creativity = Buzz

It’s more about doing what you think, not doing what you’re told.
It’s more about exposing what your mind has seen, not repeating what your eyes have seen or ears have heard.

True creativity creates “have you heard about???” vs. “been there done that”.
Music, art, and business that lead with creativity always own the market buzz.

So give the eyes and ears of the world something to hear and look at that your mind created – the Muse has flashed it there for that reason.

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