A movement is always unpopular before it’s popular.
You aren’t given conviction for the sake of popularity.
It is given to move us from dark to light, from chaos to order, and from noise to music.
So you’re convicted?
Are things moving towards light, order, and music?
If so, popularity will be the least of your concerns.
There are many, but THE CHOICE that will predict the experience that is heard, felt, and seen and the story that unfolds with you and your music will you be whether you choose to be an artist or whether you choose karaoke.
Here, this is free. Did you know that karaoke is two Japanese words put together: empty (kara) and oke (orchestra)?
You can be an empty orchestra or a full symphony.
Your choice.
And this choice makes ALL the DIFFERENCE in your world and the world of others.
Make sure they can peel off.
When the true essence of what the label is stuck to is introduced to us, more often than not, the name on the label will change as well.
It only took me 32 years to know broccoli by flavor and not by name.
When words and ideas enter your eyes and then get hidden in your heart, your thoughts, feelings, and actions will eventually change from such exposure.
Grow your capacity so you can hold more of your next experience.
When you open yourself to take something in and then give yourself time to reflect on it, you will -eventually- have a living/breathing response.
When you read and then you write, eventually it all all starts to add up.
Readers are writers. Writers are readers. Reading writers, eventually, fully experience the depths and heights of all of their experiences.
Sponges > Calculators.
The music is what we get to see, hear, and experience when you bring us the light, sound, tune, and meaning of what you’ve been seeing, hearing, and experiencing.
It’s one big game of ‘I Spy’ we’ve got going here.
Don’t be a spectator.
We’ve both got some joy on the line.
Ashton.Gustafson 