Tag Archives: let the music play

Bravery

Noise that I speak of on this blog is basically the aftermath of unnoticed, mundane, getting by on getting by, average, just enough to break even, everyday, routine actions.

Notice that noise is not necessarily bad – and that is why we typically settle there. Noise is safe. Noise floats the lazy river. Noise is Groundhog Day kind of life.

Music, on the other hand, requires musicianship, multiple instruments, all instruments tuned, all instruments in the same key, all musicians and instruments in communication, creativity, rhythm, imagination, practice, sore fingers, sore throats, and time…lots of time.

If your taking account of your life on the Noise/Music scale, and noise is outweighing the music, question your bravery.

It’s bravery that takes the stage,

it’s bravery that grabs the mic,

it’s bravery that writes the poem,

its’ bravery that gives the poem,

it’s bravery that chooses to walk-on,

it’s bravery that creates the future,

it’s bravery that launches the website or business,

it’s bravery that starts a band,

it’s bravery that starts a book,

it’s bravery that loves the family,

it’s bravery that moves to Broadway without lead role,

it’s bravery that serves the church,

it’s bravery that changes the world,

and it’s bravery that lets the music play.

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Lights. Camera.

Who am I?

What am I here to do?

When is my deadline to do it?

Where will I go to do it?

How should I do it?

Why should I do it?

There are no books, sermons, pep talks, fortune cookies, or people who can answer these questions for you.

Only you can.

That’s the beauty of it.

That’s how crucial and significant you are in the story that is unfolding.

This thing can’t happen without you.

The movie has been cast and you are the lead role.

Action.

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Halftime

183 days ago,

4,392 hours ago,

263,520 minutes ago,

15,811,200 seconds ago you declared movement towards a goal or goals.

Well?

You’ve got 183 days left,

4,392 hours to go,

263,520 minutes available,

and 15,811,200 seconds to grab what you said you would reach for.

Obsess over the inches.

Love the grind.

Go.

Finish it.

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Skyscraping

If you’re going to be building a skyscraper career, be sure that you obsess over the foundation.

We applaud those that scrape the sky, but it’s the foundation that makes the scraping of the heavens possible.

The only way you will be able to go 100 floors high is if you are well founded 10 floors deep.

And don’t become jaded by others that are skyscraping in their careers. Stay with your foundation. Pour it and build it pillar by pillar. Live there for weeks, months, or years if you have to.

The most important part of your skyscraper will not be what is seen but what is unseen.

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Seeing Is Believing

There is a difference between being a looky loo and one who actually sees what’s happening or the meaning behind something.

Looking is for the passerby’s. Seeing always beckons a response.

Looking leaves us empty-handed. Seeing finds us rich in thought.

See what I mean? >; Look at me.

Followers look for someone to follow. Leaders see the way.

Stop and look at art, or a flower, or a sunset, or a child today. Now that you’ve looked, think about what you’ve just seen.

In that same mindset look to your world.

Now tell us what you see.

Better yet, show us.

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