The Point of Know Return – Kansas The impact Kansas had on my musical tastes and skills probably can’t be overstated. I am not certain when I started listening to which album, but at some point I had acquired and listened to all of the albums they had produced through Point of Know Return and…
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Albums That Influenced My Life #2: Kansas – Leftoverture
I’ve told this story probably before, but I will tell it here again, about possibly the single most important event in my musical life, which one could then say would be my entire life, since music is such a major part of it. It may seem like a bit of an overstatement but it is…
Albums that Influenced My Life in Estimated Chronological Order: #1 Barry Manilow Live
The first album that I can remember changing my life was the “Barry Manilow Live” album. The first musical artist that impressed me was Ken Medema. For those of you who don’t know who that is, you need to click on this link and find out! I heard Ken Medema at a concert that my…
The Source of Confusion About Network Marketing
I was listening to a discussion today about Network Marketing that reminded me of how much even people who do it well spread confusion about Network Marketing. I have been a student of this type of business model. The reason I say that is because I have learned a lot more than I have done…
The Only Answer to Anything is Found in Doing not Thinking
“Think” and Grow Rich is the title of the historical book written by Napoleon Hill. It’s premise is that your thoughts are key to have a life of either “rags” or “riches”, because it is the same function of the mind. You either excel at one or the other, but everyone does both already. The…
Overthinking and Under-Skilled: Thoughts triggered by Helen Keller
I think a lot and that is a problem when you have no tools to help you sort out your thinking. What do I mean by that and why is Helen Keller a part of the discussion? If you’ve read Helen Keller’s biography, you will know that she became deaf and blind due to an…
Consistency: Building a Cabin in the Woods
Building a Cabin in the Woods: A metaphor for life. Right now I am finding out that the most important thing we do in life is one thing… …and that is what we repeatedly do. It doesn’t have to be inspired, have any higher purpose or make money. You don’t have to be very good…
Getting Back to Writing Blogs
I first started blogging when I originally started my first Boredom to Brilliance website back in 2011 or so. I didn’t know what I was doing. It was not really a blog at all, but a long website page with posts on it and it always showed the oldest post first. I developed a pretty…
Taking Time for the Important Things
I was talking to a therapist about the fact that it seems like I am surrounded with negativity. (I am taking grief therapy following the passing of my Mother because I don’t want to miss the experience of feeling sad out of an avoidance of feeling sad. I think it is important to mourn and…
Is that true? Write about your experience in life and share how you feel and think about things and then look at it as if in a mirror and ask yourself, “Is that true?”
Maybe long titles are wrong, but I want people to know what the article I am writing is about. I have strayed away from my mission and want to get back on it. My mission is to help people find their purpose through finding their mission, in this case an artistic mission. I am a…