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.
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.
RSVP Is Not Required.
Great lives do not push agendas, rather they pull us in with questions for our awareness to how things are and how we can we can make the world a better place.
Jobs asked if we were settling for good when incredible was nearby.
Godin is asking if we are accepting the status quo or challenging it.
Ramsey is asking if we are living like everyone else or no one else.
Rick Warren is questioning our purpose or lack thereof.
What are you giving us to think about?
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.
The great pianist Edvard Grieg once remarked on the purpose behind the creative energies of his music saying, “it is to build dwellings for men in which they might feel at home and happy.”
You can keep your cards close to your chest and even hide your thoughts from us, but your music or your noise will always expose your “why”.
This is the question that should find its way to the front of every Monday: “Where’s my ‘why’?”
Ashton.Gustafson 