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Nov 19 2013
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Awareness, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Let The Music Play, Music, success

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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Nov 11 2013
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What’s Trending?

Google “what’s trending?” and they will provide you about 89,700,000 results in 0.52 seconds.

89,700,000 clicks and options to see what’s up. A never ending game of I Spy.

The Rat Pack, Bob Dylan, Elvis, Madonna, and Hank Williams Sr. never asked this question.

Doing your thing > Searching the trends.

Why?

Because…Standing out > Lost in the mix.

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Nov 06 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Music, success

Giving Yourself To Your Music

Music takes work.

Music takes time.

Music takes romance with an instrument or instruments.

Music doesn’t just happen.

Music can’t comprehend coincidence.

Music takes action. Without it there is no music.

Music doesn’t pray for luck, but she will accept happenstance when it arrives.

Music needs hands, feet, and a voice. Yours preferably.

Something constantly pulls at us trying to convince us that we want fluffy pillows, fancy food, shiny cars, more clothes, bling, and Twitter fame. Yet we’ve never framed one of their receipts or posts have we?

What we truly want from life, if we were to peel it back to the core, is everything that it takes and everything that is needed to make our music.

Ask of your life what it needs for its music to be made and you will have no lack of gain.

Question for the day…”What does my music need?”

Goal for the day…give yourself to that need.

 

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Nov 01 2013
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Pioneer: The Noun & The Verb

We all long to pioneer something and there is great fulfillment found in settling into a new place or story, exploring new ideas, and in creating something from nothing.

Look at your life, family, and business and you’ll find those places and points where you pioneered something to be illuminated with fulfillment, meaning, and probably purpose as well. It may have come in the form of a garden grown, a family tradition started, a new product released, a unique service you saw opportunity with, or an idea you saw in your mind and eventually held in your hands.

But here’s the thing about being a pioneer…

If you want to be the noun, you’ve got to be the verb.

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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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