What about art?
What about leaving this place better than you found it?
What about you changing the world?
What about “why”?
What about creating a movement?
What’s love got to do with it?
What about changing your industry standard?
What would the costumer feel about this?
What about redefining your roles(s)?
What about the potential music in all this noise?
We’ve got to adopt a pet peeve for all things normal.
Hands:
Great for introducing yourself to others and making things out of other things. Service is their functionality.
Eyes:
Great for seeing – but seeing what no one else does in the moment, in the art, or in the chaos. Blessed is he whose eyes give him vision.
Mind:
Unfathomable processing speeds and comes preloaded with the latest creative software. All studies show this is one’s greatest gift.
Heart:
Created to be put into and/or given to some thing, cause, passion or idea. Guard it above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Prov 4:23
Question…
Are you being or becoming fully you?
#LTMP
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas A Edison
Noise that I speak of on this blog is basically the aftermath of unnoticed, mundane, getting by on getting by, average, just enough to break even, everyday, routine actions.
Notice that noise is not necessarily bad – and that is why we typically settle there. Noise is safe. Noise floats the lazy river. Noise is Groundhog Day kind of life.
Music, on the other hand, requires musicianship, multiple instruments, all instruments tuned, all instruments in the same key, all musicians and instruments in communication, creativity, rhythm, imagination, practice, sore fingers, sore throats, and time…lots of time.
If your taking account of your life on the Noise/Music scale, and noise is outweighing the music, question your bravery.
It’s bravery that takes the stage,
it’s bravery that grabs the mic,
it’s bravery that writes the poem,
its’ bravery that gives the poem,
it’s bravery that chooses to walk-on,
it’s bravery that creates the future,
it’s bravery that launches the website or business,
it’s bravery that starts a band,
it’s bravery that starts a book,
it’s bravery that loves the family,
it’s bravery that moves to Broadway without lead role,
it’s bravery that serves the church,
it’s bravery that changes the world,
and it’s bravery that lets the music play.
One of my heroes, Howard Brinton, often says, “get out of judgement and into curiosity.”
Don’t judge the new system. Get curious about the results.
Don’t judge the book cover. Open it. Read it.
Don’t judge the song in the first 20 seconds in. Listen fully.
Your life will alway feel like it’s in rewind when judgement rules the mind.
Curiosity is the precursor of all forward progression.
So to get from point A to point B, we’ve got to start asking questions, wondering why, finding why, understanding what’s written between the lines, and reporting back.
I disagree. I think it led to a changed world.
Ashton.Gustafson 