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One time.
It rarely takes more than one attempt at something you fear to find out it’s not so bad after all. Watch a child jump off a diving board for the first time and you’ll see this transpire. It takes a...
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Q & A
In the end, our greatest questions will end up being our greatest answers that we will live and light up our worlds with. Ask the right ones. Seek what’s beautiful. Knock on the door of mystery. It...
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Out there and in here…
When you decide how you will be, you will then have chosen how you will see. The heart that beats to love, joy and peace finds itself powering the feet and hands of connection, care, and trust. If all...
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November, December. Gratitude to Joy.
Over the weekend I started a 61 day journey through November and December with real-time reflections on the beauty that is held in these two months. I would love to have you join me on Instagram by...
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Humanity.
I had a client thank me today. The kind of thank you where we both felt that something more than a transaction had just taken place. Something human. In the mail today, I got a note from a friend and...
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Stay true.
There’s a song in you. A holy hum. A chord struck by the divine and eternally unfolding. Learn that song and stay true to it. There’s also a light. This light is there to warm the room you find...
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Surrender.
If you see the world as a war zone, surrendering will typically create a sense of loss and failure in you. All bets are off when we’re living to avoid defeat and shame will always invite his little...
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What’s next?
Here’s the good news, the answer to the question ‘what’s next’ is currently in you. Have you noticed the trees recently? The leaves are beautifully falling away right now, but where would you expect to...
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You and Your Words
They carry us. They build new worlds. They can oxygenate a suffocating room and they suffocate a room that breathes on hope. They take us to new places. They shine the way. And, sometimes, they’re all...
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Stamps
Your life will change when you tell others how they’ve changed you. Shop. Listen.
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This or that…
There’s a rat race to the top and there’s a waltz back to how things are. In the end, our poems and songs will ripple much longer than our algorithms and ladders.
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Ennui on the rise.
Since about the year 2000 ennui has been on the rise. Check this out. We need to ship more. The music happens when ennui is in decline. And music isn’t hoped. It’s made, played, and celebrated.
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Forgettable(s).
Gratitude. Nothing opens us to more possibility and authors in awareness like gratitude. Water. Your body is 60% water. More water leads to a more energy rich life. Try it, you’ll like it. Work and...
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A friend pairs well…
…with a phone call. It’s nice – and comforting – to be heard isn’t it? …with a marriage. What/who else would you want to invest and spend your days with? …with any exchange of currency (financial,...
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Your Music: Your joy, our joy.
The music is what we get to see, hear, and experience when you bring us the light, sound, tune, and meaning of what you’ve been seeing, hearing, and experiencing. It’s one big game of ‘I Spy’ we’ve got...
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Numerous Ways to Talk About Learning, Writing, Experience, Response, Meaning,...
When words and ideas enter your eyes and then get hidden in your heart, your thoughts, feelings, and actions will eventually change from such exposure. Grow your capacity so you can hold more of your...
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Rule #1 of Labels
Make sure they can peel off. When the true essence of what the label is stuck to is introduced to us, more often than not, the name on the label will change as well. It only took me 32 years to know...
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The Choice
There are many, but THE CHOICE that will predict the experience that is heard, felt, and seen and the story that unfolds with you and your music will you be whether you choose to be an artist or...
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Conviction.
A movement is always unpopular before it’s popular. You aren’t given conviction for the sake of popularity. It is given to move us from dark to light, from chaos to order, and from noise to music. So...
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When you shine…
…it warms the dirt for your relationships, moments, and art to grow and bloom. And so when we say that the hardest thing one will ever do is become who they were originally whispered to be, what we are...
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2 Ways of Looking @ It.
Firefighting. or Seed planting. If Monday got the best of you today, think farm not fire tomorrow.
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NOise.
No. That’s the root word of noise. Which leads me to believe that noise is the sound of no. Noise is what no sounds like. Noise happens when the tempo of life doesn’t match the rhythm in our chest. And...
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Marbling
Walk with me here. Take 5 globs of different colored play-doh. And let’s name them the colors of health, relationships, passion, growth, and contribution. Now take those five colors and roll them into...
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If you’re convicted…
…expect turbulence. …anticipate resistance. Conviction will always have a litmus test that requires some form of persistence, perseverance, hope, faith, and endurance. The pursuit of success in any...
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Again and Again
Fruition and fulfillment is always realized after a series, a season, and often a lifetime of ‘again and again’. You don’t want to know how many range balls Speith has slapped. Most likely it’s more...
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Action and Reality
Parker J. Palmer once wrote, “Right action can be only an immersion of ourselves in reality, an immersion that involves us in relationship, that takes us to our place in the organic nature of things.”...
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LTMP Episode 7: The dots. The lines. The circle.
Click here to download in iTunes LTMP Episode 7: The dots. The lines. The circle. You can also listen here by clicking below. https://ashtongustafson.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/ltmp-podcast-7.m4a This...
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Holacracy
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, is one of the guys that I’m always taking notes from. Back in March, I read an article in Fast Company about his decision to move the company to adopt Holacracy. Holacracy is...
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Name Changing
When the eyes are new, everything is renewed, refreshed, and recharged. Paul Valéry once said, “To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.” What have you been calling yourself?
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Bug Zappers and Soul Quenching
A few weeks ago I found great clarity in the idea that we must make room in our lives so that we may soak in more of the beauty that we’re here to behold. This conversation was about consumption,...
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The Key of See
Really, we just want a better view – a glimpse – and to hold all there is to hold and see all there is to see. For the Love, please glow. For the Love, gaze between the lines in the crossfire of empty...
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In The Mix.
Since our office is with moments, let us husband them. Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to be a cynic, there’s plenty to be cynical about. If you want to be a pessimist, there’s plenty to be pessimistic...
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The Word for That…
‘I understand’…the word for that is camaraderie. The breath in our lungs..the word for that is grace. The electricity of uncertainty…the word for that is possibility. Something from no-thing…the word...
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Deep and Wide
Wide is quite easy to achieve today. With the right amount of social creatine, your reach can be awfully wide, but it may feel like this. And then there’s the significant relevance that goes deep. The...
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The market has spoken
and it’s easy to miss what it’s saying. Two ears, two eyes, and one mouth is a great place of realization to start with your marketing plan. Once you understand the the 4:1 ratio you came equipped...
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We > Me
This thought has sat heavy on me recently. I thought on it as I walked into my office today. We > Me. I thought on this as I had a long drive this week with just my wife and I. We > Me. And as I...
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Candles & Swords
We have two choices with our words. They can be candles or they can be swords? Sure things need to be poked, prodded, cut, challenged, and defended. And when this is done well, we can only hope that...
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LTMP Episode: Who You Are > Who You Aren’t
Episode 9: Who You Are > Who You Aren’t Download in iTunes by clicking here or click the link below. https://ashtongustafson.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/ltmp-episode-9.m4a This is really quick and a...
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Your Human Thumbprint > Your Digital Footprint
Have you ever received a thank you note for a retweet? Not likely. Has anyone ever told you that you clicking a like button changed them? Probably not. But do you remember a time when someone told you...
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Going Big.
Time stood still for me today with a quote I heard from the great Dr. Parker J. Palmer. He said, “As long as we are wedded to “effectiveness” we will take on smaller and smaller tasks, for they are the...
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Organic
The heartbeat of the organic movement isn’t a new trendy idea. The heart beat is just that…a move back to the heart of the matter and back to the beat that made the music possible in the first place....
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Pocket Note(s)
You should put a little note in your pocket every morning. Something short. Something that you may need as a reminder. What should it say today? Write it down. Slip it in your pocket.
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Lean Into It
The games of cynicism, pessimism, guilt, and shame are some of the most popular games we are sold. And for those who choose to play them, they’re the only game in town. Finger pointing is the only cost...
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Small, quiet, & unseen.
Reflect on the words that have shaped you. Those small words spoken to your soul, over your life, and into your bones. Your small words matter. They enlarge those you’ve been entrusted with. Think of...
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