Wow. It’s happening, it’s really happening. This is not just a holiday this time. It’s the real deal! On top of that I’ll be a married man in about a month! My stuff has been collected by the shipping company and is starting it’s long journey on the seven seas to the other side of the globe.

This week’s song then is pretty apt. After realising quite some time ago that everyday is a fresh start and that life never actually stops I came to the point where this song sums things up. I have been dreaming about doing something like what I am doing now… a fresh start actually pursuing my dreams instead of talking about it and now I am doing it.

The feeling is incredible, not just because it feels good, but because I have never felt anything like this before. I am totally starting again, but this time instead of viewing that fact as a negative, like I may have done in the past I am looking at it as something of an advantage and a privelidge. I have the chance to choose my own life, from scratch at any time I choose and for the better, which is something we all have the chance to do incidentally. If you are thinking about doing something new then stop thinking and just start.

Every Day I Start Again
It is an important fact to get that every moment is a brand new "now" and as such contains an infinite power as the seed of any choice you make. Choose wisely as that power has the capability of giving birth to any situation you put your focus on. Starting again is often seen as undesirable as we try to hold on tightly to what we already have or have already gained along the way, but what we have built up to this point could possibly be the very hinderence to achieving something more desirable. If we try it, then starting again could be the very thing that sets us free from our own self-imposed limitations.

Enjoy!

I am having a little trouble organising myself in my frantic race against time to complete all my packing and farewells to friends & family. It is this apparent chaos that is causing me to see things with very little clarity and even some diminished certainty about what I am doing.

This song is to re-affirm to myself just how clear everything is in truth and that whether or not the road ahead is visible I have absolute certainty and knowing about where I am going, so regardless of how I feel about my huge life change, which is completely self imposed, there can be no turning back. This is my choice now, so it must be the best choice I could have made… mustn’t it?

The comforting feeling about everything, if it can be described as such is that I am more aware these days that chaos is a perception of things that are in a state of change. Think about the moments leading up to the birth of a child. It’s pretty hectic wouldn’t you say? This is the birthing process of a totally new life of mine and the weird, discomfort I am feeling is that old part of me that is fighting to stay in existence.

Goodbye to the old me and hello to a new, unknown me!

Its All So Clear
Ah… clarity, so elusive at times, but always right under our noses. If you ever feel totally lost in the situation you are in and unclear about everything just be still for few moments. You will always know where to go and what to do next if you can give your attention to listening out for it.

Enjoy!

One week on since deciding never to stop "dancing" again I find myself having to learn the steps to a really intense and complex routine in the form of getting a mountain of tasks complete before my big move and meeting up with people from all corners of the UK to say my goodbyes. It’s becoming quite a handful and my feet are aching from all these twists, turns and tempo changes!

It has forced me to strip my entire life down to specific tasks at specific times for 2 weeks; rather like a super-efficient time-management exercise: Oh and, of course still making time for the songcast! Spreading myself so thin before embarking on such an important journey is very intense, but also teaching me that I work better under pressure as well as the fact that it is possible to overcome more than you initially believe you can when given a job to do. The key is to be prepared to learn & grow in every moment.

During this time, as my threshold for what I believe I can normally cope with is pushed I have been faced with the voices of doubt within myself and feeling at times that I don’t have the power to create my heart’s desire, but the truth is that the only thing I don’t have is the knowledge of exactly how everything will work out, which is something to relish rather than fear. It’s time to become less attached to whether and how things will come good and enjoy the process. I’m still making music and doing what I love and the fact that there are so many people who all want to see me, which is taking a lot of valuable time is something I am grateful for. It means I have friends who actually care about seeing me before I go.

Thank you to all my friends and family for your support and encouragement.

Power To Create
Experience is showing me more and more the truth that successes and achievements in life really are 100% self created and the fact that luck can only be generated by focusing on the desired outcome. The more you put yourself in a certain mode of focus and thinking, the more you will notice things that will aid you in striking gold, so to speak. As the lyrics of this song suggest, any fear or anxiety you have about a situation, or rather the outcome of a situation only helps to mask your awareness of the things that can help you, creating a vision of more obstacles and less probability of success as a result. Once again that old chestnut Positivity wins out.

Enjoy!

I’v been really pushed this last week for time. Time is such an imprisoning concept, but I’m not going into all that here right now!

I don’t have a lot to say this week except that the words to this song were inspired by me waking up to myself some time ago about certain situations in my life and looking back at how I had, in a way, “switched off” and was not enjoying life as much as I knew I could or should be.

Don’t Stop Dancing!
Well there is still a message this week! Don’t keep waiting to be ready before you try new things or embark on your chosen dream. If you have the faith in what you are doing and more importantly, enjoy it you will mosty likely acheive success without a plan or any known quantities in the beginning. Plans are good, but not always the way.

Enjoy!

I was not sure about this weeks song, number 16. If this was 6 months ago, I don’t think this song would have made it this far. I would have scrapped it already, probably through fear of what people thought of it, but as is the policy with The Weekly Songcast that is no excuse. Maybe this song isn’t that good, but there’s no reason it can’t be improved upon and of course it’s possible that I may be the only person who had any doubts about it anyway.

It has been quite a week. Not that anything dramatic has occurred, but simply that I have had some strange and uncomfortable feelings going on. I was able to step back a little and conclude that those feelings were probably there, mostly due to my mind’s resistance to change and the voice of doubt creeping in.

I am always amazed at the mind’s ability to pull me back into a pattern without me noticing for some time, but it is quite noticeable to me how that time is diminishing every time it happens, which is a big improvement.

Yes, I am starting to get nervous. My life is about to change massively, more dramatically than at any other point in my life! I couldn’t be happier about it, but my comfort zone is about to be breached, so I can understand the feelings and I want to accept them and watch them, rather than identify with them. The mantra of this song I had read before and it was only a matter of time before I slipped it into a song because it does make a difference whenever I hear or say it…

I am Wealth, I am Abundance, I am Joy
I’m no expert, but I would say that these three things are probably common aspirations for all human beings. Aren’t we all looking for some meaning and purpose in our lives? All I can say is that the more I recite this phrase to myself, the more it seems to feel true for me and the more aware I become of opportunities to make it so. As far as I’m concerned, even if all it ever does is just make me feel better generally then I’d say it has value.

Enjoy!