I’m watching Andy Murray vs. Novak Djokovic in a live US Open match right now.
Every bit of positive and negative momentum is connected to what the player is telling himself.
I hope you’re still up to watch and think about what you say to yourself about yourself in the matches you find yourself in everyday.
You can ignore the world’s noise, but you can’t mute your own personal dialogue with yourself.
I hit the road this week to begin the first national tour of sharing the message of Let The Music Play.
We’re going to call out our instruments, define our music, and align ourselves with lives, relationships, and businesses of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.
I hope we get to shake hands, swap ideas, and shed some light on the scene for one another.
Chicago, you’re first.
There are no jobs left.
The only thing that is left standing, or currently asking to be given legs, is the work of art that connects, leads, and changes us.
If one can’t quite put their thumb on that thing you are supposed to do in your field, industry, or line of work – that is good news. In that sense you’re not jobless. And therein lies the role of today’s working artist: take a client, customer, or the recipient of one’s art on a journey and move their thumbs on ‘it’…on enlightenment…on the answer…and even sometimes on the question(s) they didn’t know they should be asking.
It’s time for the proverbial car salesman to forget they don’t sell cars. This goes for all of us.
Or as Paul Valéry once said, “To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”
All sorts of colors show up when our heads are up, our eyes are wide open, and our ears are bent appropriately.
How bright are the colors that shine when we’re present with our moments and paused in wonderment of the galaxies that hold what’s next?
Vast varieties of colors with no names – just universal vibes – arrive when a soul offers availability to learn, a heart is checked by such a learned soul, and an open mind is sustained by such an in check heart.
A work of art starts with the work of gathering something to paint with…immediately followed by having something to paint for.
Ashton.Gustafson 