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Sep 17 2013
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Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

What’s Your Musical Consensus?

Look up the word consensus and you’ll find it is synonymous with the word harmony.

If you know the experience, meaning, purpose, and fulfillment for your life, you then know the instruments that make the harmony of your life’s music. In other words, you have a consensus on what your music is.

Jean-Jacques Nattiez once said, “in short, there is rarely a consensus …By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be.” True – the world may not be able to agree on defining what music truly is, but I believe, independently, we all can have a consensus. No, we must have a consensus.

Your music is not mine and my music is not yours, but collectively we must celebrate and cheer each other on in the art of making it, defining it, and bringing it into the world.

Want to know why you are here? Go define music and there will be your answer.

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Apr 08 2013
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Imagination, Leadership, success

A Bicycle Took Us To The Moon

The Wright Brother’s story of flight is awesome, entrepreneurial,
inspiring, and heroic. We all know they tried and tried and
tried…and finally created liftoff.

But did you know they actually started out manufacturing bicycles
before they made and thought about their aircraft? That’s right. A
dream to pedal more efficiently to the local super-market created a
dream that eventually got us to the moon.

Quick thoughts:

Don’t pedal so fast you miss your dream in the clouds.

If you’re bored on your Monday bicycle then find a way to put some wings on it.

Achieved dreams lead to other dreams.

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Mar 18 2013
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Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing, success

Below The Surface of the Colors We See

You’ve got them – I’ve got them – we’ve all got them.

Purple problems we’re sifting through, orange organizations we work in, and green goals we’re after.

But they’re not just colors are they? Something got them here to the color they actually are. Circumstance, belief, courage, fear, paranoia, joy, hope, purpose, harsh words, and encouraging words all mixed together to make the colors of your world. Blue and red made your purple. Yellow and red made your orange. Blue and yellow made your green. Oh, and blue and green and a little more blue after the initial mix made your turquoise.

May we be the leaders that gaze into Purple to see her red heart and blue soul.

May we be the leaders that take Orange and love him for his awkward yellow ways and red personality.

May we be the leaders that get under the skin of Green to find its blue ocean and yellow streams.

Don’t be fooled by the outer coat or the surface because it’s just an illusion of what has happened within and below it. There’s a world of mixing, matching, and harmony that occurred to make the color that you see before you.

If you hear anything today hear this…That thing you call Orange just may be waiving his red hands at you. Look deeply. Listen closely.

It is below that surface that the beauty of most things come to life and if you want to be a leader you must fall in love with snorkeling.

 

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Mar 15 2013
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Leadership

Do Try Hard To Fit In…to their music.

Forcing your

self,

way,

sale,

agenda,

or music almost always leads or adds to the noise.

We must gain awareness to this fact: everyone has their own music they’re aiming to make, share, or be a part of.

So the goal unfolding in this new economy we’re all experiencing is not to try and force your music upon another. Rather, it’s to gauge your talents, gifts, and passions (your instruments) and see where they can fit into their music.

Do this and the musician you just contributed to will almost always respond with, “so tell me about your music.”

And once you’ve opened that conversation the rest takes care of itself.

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Mar 11 2013
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Change The World, Focus, Leadership, success

How You See

How you see today just may affect the rest of your life.

Most, with foggy eyes, just see a Monday ahead them and have self-diagnosed themselves with a case of the Mondays.

Then there are those today that will truly have the best day of their lives. They will look back and see March 11, 2013 as the day they changed their world, changed another’s world, thought of the million dollar idea, started something, quit something, moved something, created something, or shared something.

Let’s be souls that eagerly await and move into moments that hold this possibility of authoring the best day of our lives.

This thing is happening. This thing is happening right now. Don’t just watch…see where you belong in the music.

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