We are drawn those people and entities that offer:
Awareness – We follow those with a sensitivity to what has happened, what’s happening, and what’s going to happen.
Openness – We follow the learners and those that offer themselves to being teachable.
Belief – We follow those that are rooted in a core idea or belief and it appears that Faith has a twin sister named Persistence.
Collectively, your music must draw us into all three of these.
You can make a wrong right.
You can’t go back and pre-perfect the wrong that has passed.
We are works in progress, not works in perfection.
Perfection is about punctuation that marks an ending of something. Right is about a progression and continuation of that which is true and noble.
Perfection touts the finish line. Right boasts in the journey.
Doing, building, and pursuing what’s right inches us ever so closer to living a life that can one day look back with the hope and sense of perfection.
We talk about changing the world often and, typically, our thinking defaults to imagining ourselves moving across state lines, across oceans, across the bottom line of CNBC, and across the planet with our dreams, ideas, thoughts, goods, and services.
Yes. Moving your ‘thing’ across the ocean is one way to change the world.
But…
What about the cubicle across from your office?
What about your neighbor across the street?
What about those souls across from you at your dinner table?
What about the customer sitting across from you, on your site, via the Internet?
Point: More often than not, changing the world looks more like your front porch than it does a passport.
Look across.
I crossed paths with a wonderful thought this weekend on a wall at a children’s clothing store. The words came from Henry Ward Beecher and read, “There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots, and the other wings.”
These words were spoken nearly 200 years ago.
They were true then. They’re true today. And they will be true tomorrow.
This week, may the Muse fasten our music in ‘why’ and, in doing so, let it soar with purpose.
My wife and I have three year old girl that lives with us. There’s no doubt you’ll come to know her one day, but for now let’s just call her Story.
Story has many talents, but one of my favorite talents she has is her patent-pending ability to use words that start with a ‘L’ and pronounce them as though they start with a ‘Y”.
Some may call this a flaw to correct, but to me it’s flare to celebrate.
Who said you can’t make funny faces with your music?
Who said keep your tongue in during a slam dunk?
Who said flowers were supposed to be painted right-side up?
Leaders, take a yook and yisten to the flare of your followers.
One’s mean, median, and mode is not what they were sent here to illuminate with.
Ashton.Gustafson 