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May 09 2015
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Books, Business, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music

Tunes, Travels, and Trends

Tunes:

My Morning Jacket released their latest record this week, The Waterfall. This record glows the soul and is guaranteed to take you on a journey this spring. Download it here and if you can, find a way to go catch one of their shows. You’ll be glad you did.

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Travels:

This week I was privileged to come across a thought provoking book on travel entitled, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. Enjoy and unlock your Whitman.

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Trends:

No matter your industry, this information on Millennials from Goldman Sachs is worth the read and study. Know your customer.

Millennials Infographic

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Mar 25 2015
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Awareness, Books, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, Music, success

LTMP Introduction Podcast 1 – Take 1.

It’s raw.

It’s redneck.

It’s just the beginning.

Enjoy.

Show notes:

Aural Method

Pat Dodd http://www.Pdodd.com – Great thoughts, insight, and intro to super-good tunes.

Donald Miller’s book – A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.

Quotes:

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Frank Kafka

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the ocean in an entire drop. Rumi

The music is the experience that is heard, felt, and seen and the story that unfolds when one’s divine identity, core conscience, God giftings, core beliefs and core values come together, come alive, and crescendo in the universe we exist in. Ashton Gustafson

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined
—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place;
in short, there is rarely a consensus …
By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be. Jean-Jacques Nattiez

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

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Dec 25 2014
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Something New

Spotify now has 40 million active monthly users and over 10 million paying customers.

Please click on something you wouldn’t normally listen to. The Genres and Moods playlists are well worth the click.

The world of wonderment has never been more wide open…and we should take advantage of that.

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Oct 14 2014
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In Search of Song

Frank Sinatra once said, “Having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as elation….whatever else has been said about me is unimportant. When I sing, I believe.”

What makes you and your heart sing?

Whatever your answer, may the metaphor be with you and you with the metaphor.

We need more believers.

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Nov 19 2013
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Rule # 1 Of Your Music: Insist On Yourself

I believe you are a musician.

I believe there is song after song after song waiting to be awakened in you.

I believe there’s far too many people telling you what to believe your music should be.

I believe your music is your call.

I believe finding your music is your true and holy vocation.

I believe the vocation of finding your music will help move others into the same pursuit, resulting in a world of less noise and more music.

I believe your music is why you are here.

I believe we will all be better after having been exposed to your riffs, rhythm, and rhyme.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”

A successful life is one that says ‘here’s my music.’

Emphasis on my (which is yours).

You need not borrow that which is already in you.

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