A series of major changes are on the horizon for the Missus and me.  They have mainly to do with our life in Inspirational music, our lifestyle, our spiritual ambitions and the way we live life daily – the way we work and the way we relax.

We’re going to go through this together.  They say that as people get older they are open to change less and less.  Well, we must be getting’ younger  because we are anticipating change daily.  We’re begging the universe, “ C’mon, bring it on!”  We’re open as never before.

Is it that we don’t like our life?  Yes, partly.  It’s also because we love certain parts of our life and simply have gotten a great taste of what it is in life that floats our boat and what doesn’t, and so want to focus down and concentrate on just the things that really work for us.

We are so busy with the detail and minutiae of daily life and find it so hard to get to the things we really love to do that we’re trying to get even better organized and actually more automated so we can focus on the good stuff – the creative and spiritual work of our lives.

Starting and developing Watchfire Music, (my wife, Julia, runs the most successful Digital Sheet Music division of WFM) has been a dream come true for us, but has strapped us with the daily machinations of running a business and held us back far too often from the creative endeavors of recording artist, producer and composer.

We’re going to change this.  Or rather, we’re working, watching and praying to achieve a centeredness in our lives that will allow our lives to evolve on to a more creatively productive path.  How can we do this?  Often we don’t have a clue.  The daily duties of life just overwhelm us and we feel stuck inside a life we didn’t choose but seems to have chosen us.

So we’re going to change that.  How?  By taking some large human footsteps, but more to the point, by raising the bar of our spiritual consciousness.

Change is inevitable.  That’s one thing about this life on planet earth that is constant.  Things will change.  How nimble can we be to negotiate those changes?

Who would have ever thought that the music business would crash and burn like it has?  Who would have ever thought that generations of people would decide on their own that music should be free and then the powers of the business would support (often unknowingly, sometimes not) this ridiculous idea?  Not me.

But that major change in our life did happen and now we realize fully that we have to face that change, change with it and make the best of it.  So we will.  What other choice do we have?  So we’re figuring out ways of offering a better product, of making music a greater necessity in life.  If we lift our own bar and make a better product, people will see the value of that and want to take part in that good idea,

If we build it, they will come.  So we’re changing the way we’re going to build albums.  We’re throwing out the old concepts that may have become so unattractive that people no longer wanted to pay for them.

In short, we’re determined to build a better mousetrap.

We’re going to try to get back (or rather go forward) to what we are here for in the first place – to create inspirational music, to lift human consciousness and to bring light to the world.  We just can’t do that trapped in the minutiae of the daily scramble.

I’m starting to pray more on a daily level to be open and to recognize the changes and the opportunities of those changes as they come.  The good thing about the world today is that the changes are coming faster than ever.  This is a good thing if you’re looking for change – probably not as acceptable if you’re resisting change.

So we’re holding hands and facing the wind in our faces with an excitement, with open hearts, minds and eyes, and trying to stay as centered as possible so that we can recognize and differentiate the positive changes from the negative ones.

That’s one of the hard parts about change.

“Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have — and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.” ~James Belasco and Ralph Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo (1994)

I love this quote and consider it daily.  But it’s not just about changing for change’s sake; it’s about identifying the right changes to make in life and then having the courage to go at it.

Sometimes that will mean dropping what you’ve worked so hard to attain.  Sometimes it means giving up on a direction that has become cherished, but confused, and sometimes it just means starting over.

So we’re ready to start over if necessary, ready to rebuild the dream, ready to even re-conceive the idea in a clearer way.  If we don’t do this, then we will stay stuck, stay frustrated and stay put.

We’re ready for change.  Bring it on.

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