Sure you can slow up a bit today. It’s Friday, right?
The problem is this temporary pause will only lead you to needing a jump-start 72 hours from now on Monday.
Put another log on the fire.
Back in the day (not long ago), art wasn’t blessed within the lines of commerce.
We just wanted the news and maybe The Late Show.
We just wanted a pair of shoes.
We just wanted a hotel for the night.
We just wanted a cup of coffee.
No room for art here in these wants.
But that was then and this is now.
We just wanted a pizza when that is all Dominoes offered. Now enter Cane Rosso to open pandoras box on what you thought a pizza was. You didn’t know you wanted art with your pizza did you?
We just wanted to make mobile calls when that is all Motorola offered. Now enter Steve Jobs and with his cronies looking to bring sexy back with your phone. You didn’t know wanted fashion and art with your phone did you?
We just wanted to take a picture, but Instagram knew we wanted to make art. You din’t know you could be or wanted to be an artist did you?
Look at who is gaining market share and you’re going to find a bunch of artist, modern day hippies, ex-hippies, and so called “randoms” shaking things up and changing the world.
Intro to Art, in my opinion, is just as necessary as Intro to Business in your career development.
When the thought becomes physical the game has changed.
For instance when you move from “I should call that customer” to “I CALLED that customer” you just made a big leap and a push against resistance.
When you’re thinking “I think I love her/him” and then you speak out “I love her/him” – that relationship can never go back to normal.
When you move from “what if we________” to “we chose to GO this route” – now you’re pushing forward and changing things (always a good sign).
Our thoughts, dreams, and ideas are the rowdiest gifts the Muse has given us. The problem is they’re all paused until we physically do something with them.
When the thought turns physical this a quantum leap from wishing things to be done to willing them to be done.
Simply put, get your songs out of your head into a microphone.
Alas, that bird will finally fly.
Now, more than ever, success is going to require that you get further and further from the pack,
further and further out of the box,
further and further from standard operating procedures,
and further and further from limited thinkers and dreamers.
The rat race is noisiest and most crowded place on earth. The problem is you don’t notice the noise or the mass competition of the race when you’re there. The rat race will convince you that “this is just how things are.”
Did Usain Bolt race this past week or just do his thing?
Was Apple ever in a race to creat the first cell phone?
Wherever you’re looking to go or whatever music you’re trying to create think the opposite of rat race.
From here on out, it will only be the outliers that move further and further from all things normal and average that will succeed on massive levels.
Keep running the same play and see if that wins the game for you.
Keep making the same calls and see where that gets you.
Keep thinking the same thoughts and see where that takes you.
Keep watching those same reruns and report back.
Keep saying we’re in the same recession we were in 4 years ago.
Keep ordering the same super-sized fries.
Keep doing what you’ve been doing and you’ll get to keep getting what you’ve been getting. I think you want more than that.
If I have any regret at this point in my life, it’s that I haven’t taken more and greater action towards bigger and greater dreams.
Try this mantra on: How different today can I think, act, and speak in order to create the tomorrow I’ve always envisioned?
Changed World > Same Old, Same Old
Ashton.Gustafson 