You may know that before my career as a life coach & speaker I was a singer/songwriter. Infact it was seeing so many artists who struggled with life and career that that led me into the work that I do today. During that time I wrote a song for a friend who was a very talented singer and who was keen to become a big star. As gifted as he was he couldn’t cope with being by himself. Likewise despite some long relationships with girlfriends that cared deeply about him he lacked love … for himself.
This is not an uncommon story …not only within the music industry but in life. It’s easy to spend a lifetime seeking fulfilment through ‘someone’, ‘somewhere’, ‘sometime’ or ‘something’ else and overlook one self.
My friend the singer found the success and fame that he sought and I hope that he found the love too. Here is that song which I eventually recorded myself. And a big thanks to Marcin Steciuk the video director. Wishing you all a very Happy Valentines Day.
Hmm it was hard to follow the renite post. Some posit that passion as the extremity of emotion and is overrated, indeed unhealthy. I think there is a fluid balance over time that we need between passion and the clarity that comes with the inner calm what seems to work for me is to alternate between exploring and reflecting where the exploring feels chaotic and the reflection brings order. In our profession with respect to the experience of space, we use the term prospect and refuge’ that was coined by hmmm I forget who they were a couple who are environmental psychologists but likely you are referring to something a little deeper.