dreams | Ashton.Gustafson

Sep 24 2013

Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, success

May I Join You On Your Journey?

That’s a much more powerful question than “Would you like to join me on my journey?”

Funny things happen when your journey becomes about and for the enrichment of another’s journey. For one, you’re giving and not taking. And most acts of giving our birthed from a heart of service. Secondly, you’re basically asking if you can help them, their purpose, their problem, or their story. We call that hope.

Good business is a romantic way to say this is not about me. I’m pretty certain a great life offers the same aim.

In other words, the joining of other’s journeys is the rewarding journey we’re all looking for.

Tagged Ashton Gustafson, blog, dreams, goals, journeys, ltmp, May I Join You On Your Journey?, success

Sep 17 2013

Leave a comment

Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

What’s Your Musical Consensus?

Look up the word consensus and you’ll find it is synonymous with the word harmony.

If you know the experience, meaning, purpose, and fulfillment for your life, you then know the instruments that make the harmony of your life’s music. In other words, you have a consensus on what your music is.

Jean-Jacques Nattiez once said, “in short, there is rarely a consensus …By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.” True – the world may not be able to agree on defining what music truly is, but I believe, independently, we all can have a consensus. No, we must have a consensus.

Your music is not mine and my music is not yours, but collectively we must celebrate and cheer each other on in the art of making it, defining it, and bringing it into the world.

Want to know why you are here? Go define music and there will be your answer.