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Dec 31 2013
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Awareness, Books, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

A Letter from 2014

Dearest Musician,

This is your time.

This is your canvas.

So gather your instruments, join your fellow musicians, and let your music play.

Know that you are a better teacher for yourself than any book will ever be. Listen to the mirror.

However, it’s not what you know that will fulfill you. It’s what you become when you do what you do and witnessing who that impacts that will fulfill you.

Keep a lookout for the unseen, untouched, and unloved people, places, and things. There is great opportunity in such discoveries.

And lastly, say no to karaoke and yes to something original.

Yours truly,

Two Thousand and Fourteen

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Dec 27 2013
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Wandering Into The Familiar With Wonder

You get up, you shower, you have a cup of coffee, you check your email, you drive to work, you work, you drive home, you have dinner, you watch the news, you go to sleep. The sun rises and then you hit repeat.

Looking straight into the familiar we often neglect to look and listen at what’s around it. We must wander into what’s familiar with an expectation of surprise.

The hope here is that this wandering can lead to a wonder that leads to you having gained new insight, making change, or creating something new from the familiar.

Look and listen to the all too familiar trees around you. Behind the leaves you won’t believe how the once hidden bluebird sings your songs or how she glistens with inspiration and direction.

True or false: It’s hard to get full of wonder when you’re stuffed with familiar.

True.

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Dec 13 2013
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Now That We’re In The Ocean…

…one must become a a pirate.

In an ocean of a billion tweets, a million products, and thousands of brands and ideas how will you navigate these wide waters to find what you’re truly after?

You will successfully navigate these waters and waves by choosing a pirate mentality.

Pirate the ocean for meaning.

Pirate the ocean for metaphors.

Pirate the ocean for depth of relationship.

Go wide in these waters. Raise your sails. Make your mark. Make a splash.

Just know that what you’re looking for is probably twice as deep as it is wide.

A pirate, by nature, obsesses over the subsurface activity and the hunt of buried treasure.

We can all learn from this.

 

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Dec 12 2013
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Remember When?

Give whimsy some space. You’ll be glad you did today and even more glad, looking back, tomorrow.

Let love do its thing. Fall into it. Take part in it. Let it lead you. It’s the glue of memory.

Let your music play and get lost in it. How great would it be to look back at a day, week, month, year, or decade and be able to claim it felt symphonic?

Full is the man that often recalls ‘remember when?’.

Alas, I’m glad I did > I wish I had.

 

 

 

 

Footnote: You are the contingency of your experience.

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Dec 11 2013
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You Saw It, You Just Missed It

Your hand is on a computer mouse, smart phone, keyboard, or laptop right now. Have you blocked that fact out? Jobs saw this coming in the 80’s while hacking away in his garage.

There’s probably a lightbulb buzzing around you right now. Did you miss that? Edison sat in the dark and saw this moment for us in 1879.

The rising sun is casting neon rays against the clouds and across the horizon. Did you catch that? Or was it blotted out by a Starbucks sign? Could you capture that beauty and put a fraction of it into what you make today?

The rose is in bloom. Are you?

And people. What about people? What about souls? Are they data and statistics? Or are they the ocean of your experience?

Most often, it’s not that you can’t see what’s around you. Oh you can see alright! Rather, it’s simply that you’re not looking. Or, you’re not looking for the right things in the odd and rare places they can found.

Look.

Whatever you’re looking for, you can find it anywhere. And typically, when we’re looking for something we see it everywhere.

So the BIG question is what are you looking for? Hope? A pity party? Passion? Joy? Profit? A deal? The next rung on the ladder? Measurement? Yourself? Experience? Meaning?

In a world powered by your music, we give all too much attention to the noise around us.

Before I hit publish I prayed that you would have whatever moment, person, experience, or thought you need to see today.

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