Standing Around The Jukebox

New Hum Love playlist up on Spotify and Apple Music

I’ve never stood around a jukebox with my friends listening to music.

But I have shown up with my friends to listen to our mix tapes off the radio, then the cases of CD’s, then burned cds off Napster, then iPods.

And now we share tracks and playlists.

Making a new playlist each month is fun because you have to have new music for it each month, so you pay more attention to new music. And click around more. And listen more. And have more good stuff to share.

If you have any good stuff you wanna send my way, please do. I’d love to listen. Maybe I’ll add it next time around.

***Also, if you’ve missed any of the previous months or need a refresher on a track, there’s a Hum Love Archive on Spotify and Apple Music too.

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Presence

Presence is developed, not fixed.

Anything you can fix is technique (and there’s no problem with fixing).

But presence is the long, deep, difficult part.

***Your old wise grandparents weren’t always like that.

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Preparing

Preparing well doesn’t mean it’s not going to be difficult.

It just means you’re more likely to get the desired result once the difficulty is over.

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Sharing The Lull

There’s usually a lull.

After the holidays

Or when you get home off the road

Or the car ride home after the party

The lull is worth recognizing.

The time spent with people while sharing the lull is real currency. It matters who you share the lulls of life with.

The lull is easy to miss. It’s easy to wish it away.

But the lull is sweet and rich. Don’t rush it.

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Bouncing Back

You have to be able to bounce back. To re-energize yourself and the troops.

It would be easy to keep going if you didn’t have to get good at bouncing back.

It’s hard to keep going because…

-you think these hard times might last forever

-the only way they’re not going to last forever is if you develop the skill of bouncing back

Bouncing back is different than simply going back to work or being a hard worker.

Bouncing back has to do with honesty, vision, belief, connection, leadership, care.

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Beat Up Hearts

Every artist has a beat up heart. Every artist struggles.

No artist I’ve ever talked to thinks they have it easy.

All the rejection. All stepping back up to the plate. All the playing new songs and not getting the reaction you hoped for. All the knowing you’re better than your bank account balance reflects. All the wounds, and all the keeping going.

If you’ve got a beat up heart you’re in good company. Every artist you know and every artist you look up to does too.

Onward we go.

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