Tinker
This week is still up for grabs. The week between Christmas and New Years.
While I would love if we all adopted a week long celebration…it doesn’t seem like our culture is very good at (or interested in) multi day celebrations.
I think this could at least become a week of tinkering, dabbling, playing around.
Enjoying the downtime but just restless enough to be curious about something new or forgotten.
»» Every Sunday night I send out an email for songwriters and publishers (and anyone interested in that world). It shows who is writing and producing the popular songs along with tempo and main chord progression. You can look at an example and sign up here.
Gifts
They are just that.
Gifts aren’t concerned with fairness, justice, evenness, earned-ness, deserved-ness.
Care, love, thoughtfulness and generosity stand on their own…which is why it’s possible to give and receive good gifts.
»» That blast in Nashville took out my phone and internet for the last day and a half. Hence this coming to you a day late. But then again, maybe it’s right on time.
A Practice Of Enjoying
When you get to the day you’ve been looking forward to hopefully you’ve been practicing enjoying the moments leading up to the day you’ve been looking forward to.
If all you’ve been practicing is ‘looking forward’ then chances are when you get there you’ll be a bit out of practice when it comes to enjoying.
Today is a great day to start a practice of enjoying.
Fine, Let's Make A Bad Deal
The deals are bad at the beginning because you are a big risk and on top of that you’re not willing to push back on the bad deals or say no. You’ll probably just complain, say yes and keep going.
But if you feel compelled to sign the bad deal, give yourself an out. A safety valve.
We will sign this bad deal for less money, less ownership and less attention but here is the clear path for which we get out of the deal all together.
It sucks to be in a bad deal. Even worse to be in a bad deal forever.
»» Bands are a special. High tension high release. Magical. Making and playing music in the face of deep insecurity and deep joy. The clip for The Beatles: Get Back encapsulates this and so much more. It was an instant smile on my face.
Singing Ahead
The lyrics and melody.
The lyrics and melody are often ahead of where you are. They lead you.
They’re ushering you along the path to join them in the mental and emotional place you want to be, even while you’re singing them.
When you commit to the function of singing those nots and those words, it has an effect on your spirit.
You don’t need to be in the perfect emotional state in order to sing the words. But rather, when you sing you will be helped into the emotional state.
Your spirit will catch up to what your lips are singing of.