the mission.

first off

there has to be little to no personal life.

if the goal is greatness, if the goal is complete fulfillment of destiny

there can be no sought after personal interaction that combines with desires,

initially.  HOPEFULLY those things will fulfill themselves along the way,

but often get in the way if selfishly pursued. 

secondly

there has to be rigorous self sacrifice.  generally in the form of a routine

mainly within the confines of the mind.  you control your mind, place it over matters,

let it dominate personal conflicts long enough to make right decisions (funny…i was just thinking about a right decision doesn’t necessarily feel like a GOOD decision or coincide with GOOD feelings all the time), then you should be way more successful in completing what needs to done.

third

don’t forget love.  the best way i can describe that is to remember a quote:

“love is something you do without expectation” 

it’s harder to pull off then it seems.  you usually and always want something..no matter how selfless it seems.

EXAMPLE: if you’re sick and someone calls you talking about: “i was just seeing you wanted some company or need to run some errands for you”  — it’s a call of love possibly…but it’s loaded with wants.  they want to feel like they helped or their just nosey and want to know how bad you’re really doing, etc.

another person calls and simply says “i just called to let you know i’m thinking about you” and hangs up.  still a selfish act.  it’s truly hard to just commit an act of love.  it’s easier to pull off with yourself, especially when you’re just doing the right thing.  NOT smoking when you want to. NOT spending when you want to. NOT doing what you want all the time. it sucks, it hurts, it’s not fun or desired. you’re just doing the right thing cause you know it’s right.  it doesn’t feel romantic…it’s love.  start there then work on others.

fourth

write out the purpose. look at it, and stop trying to log it all in that brain of yours.

you’re reading a blog, i really shouldn’t have to go into great detail of the importance of writing stuff down.

my group today (loose leaf) comprised the first playlist for our first album.  this has been a huge debate that we’ve discussed for over a year, whether or not to do a mixtape or an original album of our work.  well..today after a three month sebatical, we looked a list.  a list of all the songs we’ve done and those we have in the works.  from looking at this list we were able to SEE that we’ve done quite a bit of work that can be pulled together to form our first body of tangible music.  we’re calling it a mixtape but it’s completely original material so i guess we’re actually doing a ‘mixtape album’ go figure: i suggested we do that in first place — should’ve broke out the list months ago.

fifthly ..yeah…fifthly

rest.  rest. rest. rest. rest. work. work.work.work.work.

~ by blackatticus on November 2, 2009.