Posts Tagged ‘accidents’

SOS Episode #46: Happy Accidents: Using Mistakes, Discomfort, Rejection, and Failure To Bring About Musical Mastery, Success, and Fulfillment

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

When in deep water, learn to be a diver…

When you are committed to life-long growth, there is no such thing as failure, only lessons on the way.

When you are committed to success, there is no such thing as rejection, only clarification about where you are headed.

When you are committed to making great music, there are no accidents, just constant adjustment and refinements to make as you follow the Muse.

Just as every misstep is an opportunity to come in to greater alignment with your true path, so every unexpected professional or musical flub can be an invitation to seize the moment and integrate the “mistake” into the business plan, the composition or the improvisation.

When you can let go of the need for everything to go “right,” you open up to the possibilities of everything going well. This is equally true when writing a song, crafting a career path, or growing into a personal relationship.

Join this uplifting episode as JP shares some of his most prized misfortunes, the hidden gifts he received from them, and some of the underlying principles of musicianship he discovered along his winding path.

 
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