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Dec 31 2013
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Awareness, Books, Business, Change The World, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership, Let The Music Play, success

A Letter from 2014

Dearest Musician,

This is your time.

This is your canvas.

So gather your instruments, join your fellow musicians, and let your music play.

Know that you are a better teacher for yourself than any book will ever be. Listen to the mirror.

However, it’s not what you know that will fulfill you. It’s what you become when you do what you do and witnessing who that impacts that will fulfill you.

Keep a lookout for the unseen, untouched, and unloved people, places, and things. There is great opportunity in such discoveries.

And lastly, say no to karaoke and yes to something original.

Yours truly,

Two Thousand and Fourteen

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Dec 19 2013
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What You Want(ed)…

…from your career is an experience that opens doors to avenues of other experiences. (Not money)

…from your life is an experience with purpose. (Not popularity)

…from your education is an experience with new data, insight, and enlightenment. (Not a 4.0)

Quick – go to the year 2033 in your mind. That’s just 7,300 sunrises away. Now look back at today.

You’re holding a card in your left hand that reads ‘I wish I had’. In your right hand you’re holding a card that reads ‘I’m glad I did’.

Which one are you holding up?

*Note: Experiments birth experiences.

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Dec 09 2013
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Awareness, success

There’s Time Left

In three weeks, you’ll get to look back at what you said you would do in 2013 and you’ll get to look ahead and say what you’re going to do in 2014.

If we don’t know where we’re going, there’s no telling where we’ll go.

If you want to love a year, obsess over a day, grind out the hours, and be present in the minutes.

One day can change a year and change a life.

There’s time left.

 

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Nov 29 2013
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The Noise Draws Lines and the Music Promotes Togetherness

“I’m right, you’re wrong.”

“But…”

‘He said – she said.’

“That’s not fair.”

“Lucky him.”

“Lucky her.”

Notice there is no ‘togetherness’ in these statements, lies, ideas, and excuses.

These are simply the statements that lead to the noise in our lives, families, and businesses. They do nothing well other than one thing – separate us.

The best songs are the ones where you get the sense the writer is holding your hand and saying ‘let’s do this or figure this thing out together.’

To be human, at the core, is to be in and experience something together.

Let the lines fade and let the music play.

 

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Nov 26 2013
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If you don’t make a difference…

then what do you make?

Full disclosure, I’m not sure of the exact answer, or if there is one specific answer. But it’s probably, metaphorically, some form of noise. Something unnoticed. Something lost in the mix.

A life that makes a difference is one that points or leads in a way in which people or things are not the same after being encountered to it.

Your music is the difference you’re here to make.

Noise bounces.

Music sticks.

Finally, The Game has a name: Change.

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