Music is learned.
Music is made.
Music is inspired.
Music is intentional.
Music isn’t random.
Music isn’t made by chance.
And music isn’t created by the lucky few.
Pursue your ideals.
Obey your conscience.
Bend with your giftings.
Romance your instruments.
Take your time.
Get it right.
This thing – The Music – is what we’re all after.
The music is the experience that is enjoyed and the story that is written when one’s passions, ideals, conscience, and core values intersect, collide, and crescendo in this world we exist in.
Running in circles of noise, often missing the point, it never hurts to get back to, define, and remember the point of it all.
The point is your music and your music is the point: our gift to receive and the fulfillment of your days.
You and why.
To define one is to define them both.
Show me a man or woman with a ‘why’ and I’ll show you someone who isn’t wondering what, when, where, or how to do their some-thing.
Your something is your why.
Your why is the theme of your life. Your why is your constant living and breathing verb. Your why is your metaphor – your meaning, purpose, and fulfillment that sails just below the surface. Your why isn’t who you think you are or who you think we think you are – it is simply…who…you…are…meant…to be…and become.
Which leads us back to you.
So why you? In short, only you can fulfill such a unique, stand-alone, and divine cause.
And herein lies the holiest of all pursuits: that we would become what we are meant to be.
So who is right? The artist or the scientist?
The artist, with his art instrument clutched in hand, feels a certain way and then paints what he feels. He felt something and, in doing so, found he is right. “You’ll see”, he says.
The scientist, with her proven algorithms and spreadsheets on display, has consistent, repeatable, and predictable proof. What goes up must come down. She knows she’s right. “Wanna make a bet?”, she says.
Back to the original question…who is right between these two? Thought: Just because the artist and scientist clash on their process of getting to what is true doesn’t make one of them wrong.
Leadership, today, recognizes that – simultaneously – the arts (if one finds joy in their experience) and the sciences (if proven in their research) are both right.
So what are you making with your life, your family, and your business? Whatever your answer is here I think, in order to be fulfilled, you need a dash of the both the arts and the sciences.
Some need to see it to believe it. Some need to feel it to believe it. But we all will believe something within an experience that lets us both feel and see.
And that’s what you’re here to give us: that thing you can explain and that thing you can’t explain.
You’ve got a big job don’t you?
Happy Monday in your happy mediums.
Your music request the pleasure of your company to come and dance, to see and play, to hear and be, and be one.
When: Every day.
Where: Everywhere.
Meaning, purpose, and fulfillment to follow.
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