Success

Hey, good morning!

Inspiration

This morning I received music from avant-garde composer Jeff Harrington.

That is the kind of music I have not listened to in a while… And, it’s the essence of the Art. The one that grabs my soul, draws a landscape, surrounds me, makes me feel and think, develops the “Intelligence of the Heart”.
Truly, Jeff is an artist and doesn’t try to be the replica of anybody.

The kind of guy who inspires you to be yourself.
Notice it’s not: “to become yourself” but: “be yourself”.

This is how and why we love and appreciate great artists. We look at their creations with a ‘Wow’ effect; their magic touch enlight the world, give sensations, feelings and, by pitching ourselves into a different mood, open us to a different thinking.

Thus, I took a trip back to the time I was 16. Studiying composition with Jacques Charpentier, having nights of passionate discussions about art and meaning of life with my friends, or nights at Paul Calatayud’s studio where I was practicing while he was painting. Being “Mutual Inspirations”; becoming richer inside because of this human exchange, Heart-to-Soul.

Harrington’s music sent me back to this day I spent at Juan Miro’s retrospective where I went because I did not like his painting and wanted to understand it; stayed 8 hours filling my heart and soul with Miro’s universe, cried in front of some paintings, laughed, dreamt and had inspiration for the years to come. Kandinsky, Paul Klee and many others nourished my life and inspired me… to be an artist every day.

I love their work because they are personal, because they dare to be themselves, like you love other artists, writers, politicians, your sweet half and… others.
Some of you – and do not tell me it’s not true (I am watching you…) – are looking for the “keys of success“, “how to feel up your pocket with money” (I realized I have to wear different jeans… the pockets, once full, do not contain that much, I would starve after a week), “how to have everybody knowing who I am” (I got a recipe: do something crazy, like this pianist stating every where she is Mel Gibson’s doll… Now she sells posters of her big boobs and we still do not know how she plays piano), “the fans tearing my clothes down as I arrive in a Palace Hotel in L.A” (You better have to dress yourself at Wal-Mart or Ross, otherwise it will cost you a fortune). It’s like a new job: Being Known.

And this cyber space is filled up with new gurus who studied the successful businesses and put them into patterns trying to sell you the way to success (Why aren’t they running successful business themselves then?), all the jobbers who “know” how to become a millionaire – especially when they are not – how to flip houses and become reach – truly, I’m wondering why the realtors don’t keep the houses for them to run such business… House flippers LOL! It looks like the stuff outside will make us happy, right? But, happiness is not something from the inside… Well, you get the point.
Happiness is From-The-Inside.

Living a dream

First of all living a dream is what will make you happy and know why you wake up in the morning. And that will be your first success.
Philippe Petit read an article in a French newspaper about the Twin Towers construction project. Way before they have been built. Then, he did not have a day without dreaming about walk on a wire stretched out between the two buildings.
Thomas Johnson was working on wood under a tent in Ghana and moved to the US with $20 in his pocket. Hi is now running a flourishing and successful business here in America and has been consulted personally by the President of America. (read about him on my blog).
And others like Obama and more…

They do not limit their dream, limit themselves. Like Johnson says:
~ do not look at the ceiling but at the sky; because it has not end.

What great examples those people are for us… They really show us the waypath to follow.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.