Life's Symphony

When everything is going well, your life is like a well constructed piece of music - everything in it's place and a place for everything. You move effortlessly from task to task, like fingers flying over the keys. Any piece of music is possible when you are in this frame of mind, you have boundless energy, life is amazing AND you are enjoying every moment of it.

Then something knocks you out of your "tune" of thought, "life" they say, sometimes gets in the way. We find it hard to hit the right keys, everything seems jumbled, like you are just hitting the keys in any random pattern. Sometimes you make music, sometimes though it's just a wall of sound.

I can't remember the last time my life played like a symphony. It's not that I like disharmony you understand, but the fact that I am constantly pushing myself to do new things, try something different. Change things around.

When that happens of course, our fingers don't know the correct notes we have to play. We have to look at our hands and the music score to see what we are doing or trying to do. We have to practice, we get things wrong, we hit the wrong keys, we get frustrated, and sometimes if we don't master the new score, we go back to our old familiar piece of music.

So what can you do?

Well, you don't have to change everything at once. We are of course coming up to that awful time of the year again. I am of course talking about New Year's Resolutions. This is where we decide that we hate everything about our lives and decide we are going to change EVERYTHING - and I do mean everything.

We throw away the old scores, nope not playing those again. I am going to bite the bullet and learn that uber difficult piece I've said I would learn one day, then my life will be perfect.

What if I were to tell you there was another way - yes the challenge. One day at a time, we can choose to try something new. We don't have to throw everything away. What we do, is that we keep the symphony playing in the background, but we add new pieces to the scores of our repertoire each day. Believe me, it's a much easier and faster way of getting more out of life.

Signing off with many thoughts and beautiful pieces of music to follow...