A Feeling will Change the World

Everything Starts with Intent

My Decision to Leave the Office Life This was not a new desire of mine, but was now a definite intention rather than a nice idea. I started a blog stating my desire to Leave the nine-to-five lifestyle behind, just as I was making plans to get a new job! The success of this particular plan in my life has given me all the faith, evidence and confidence I need to know I am a free man. Free from the constraints of what people tell me I can or cannot do, but not in a bullish, pig-headed way. I mean that I ...

MPMU – Your Heart Will Never Sell You Out

Talking to You in Riddles ‹ All MPMU's Download or Buy This Track › Every riddle contains the answers to the questions you have. What's to say about this song and it's message? Well pretty self explanatory. If you learn to listen to the voice of your intuition - Your heart then you will be more likely to head in the direction that, not only will make you happiest, but where you want to go. Don't put too ...

Hollywood, Tsunamis and Huey Lewis

So Near, So Far, No Cigar But what lessons I learned! I remember talking with a friend during 2004, just after the realization of our dream of going to the USA to be rock stars slipped from out of our hands. I remember saying 'I feel like a broken man'. Phew! If I knew at that point just how dis-empowering words like that actually are I would never have chosen them. That kind of talk doesn't even enter my head anymore let alone exit my mouth! We had signed a deal with a Hollywood-based music manager with some impressive credentials. We ...

False Evidence Appearing Real

From the song Your Brave Heart An important thing to know with regard to your fears, worries and doubts. They are an illusion. They have power over you as long as you allow them to, but if you can step away from them and observe them for what they are then you will be able to see how natural it is to listen to your heart better than your head. Try Neural Recon Report - Tips: Weekly reminders and suggestions for transforming your habitual thoughts and self-talk to work with you instead of against you. Don’t buy into the fears you’re feeling. ...

U2 Live Webcast Breaks New Ground

An Impressive Display of Tech! Did you see the live U2 webcast of their concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena California? I only found out about it an hour before it was due to start from a tweet I saw in my twitter stream and I'm glad I did. Now before anyone rolls their eyes and starts saying "U2 are boring" or whatever, this is not about how great U2 are although I do like them. In my opinion it was not as impeccable a performance as their classic Boston gig from the Elevation tour, immortalized on DVD, but it was ...

If You Repeat a Way of Thinking

From the song Repetition I Wanted to share this message again, as I do from time to time. Especially as I also write about such things at the Neural Recon Report. If you repeat a way of thinking enough times it becomes imprinted in your subconscious mind, re-wired in the brain and it becomes a habit - carried out on your behalf without the need to think about it. The problem is that the mind does not distinguish between what you call 'Good' or 'Bad' and so will create habits you do not want unless you apply the discipline of choosing your thoughts: The ...

Future Funkiness

Telefunky Got Soul! I'm getting really excited! Very soon I will have my new microphone: A Telefunken M 80 Handheld Vocal Microphone, which I will refer to from now on as the Telefunky (I'm not the first one to use that term). To those that are familiar with recording and audio production, this may not sound like a particularly exciting microphone and compared to several others that I desire, it is pretty ordinary actually, but it is not simply the object that I am excited about, it is the process of using it. I recently decided to try recording my vocals using ...

A New Door Opens

But Could I Walk Through it? At the end of 2001 I had become acquainted with a really great record producer and we naturally hit it off, like old friends. We remain friends today. He had worked with some bands that I had liked in the 1990's, most notable is probably The Breeders "Last Splash" album, which whether you know it or not, you have probably heard - at least the opening track "Cannonball" By April 2002 I had become quite bitter and cynical about a lot of things. I had what I now refer to as "The World is S**t and ...

...And what a feeling! On the 1st October 2009, the day before my birthday, my daughter, Lillana (Lilla for short) was born, nicknamed by the hospital staff 'Cookie'. What a gift and what a feeling! Since the birth I have been rather preoccupied as you can imagine and it has provided me with some realization too just how much time I tend to spend on the internet. After looking at that I have been able to determine how much internet time I really love and that which I don't. With this new-found insight I am excited about putting into practice a new ...

MPMU1 Dont be Afraid of Your Shadow

The Only Thing Standing in Your Way ‹ All MPMUs Download or Buy This Track › Welcome to the first online, Musical Pick me up. In a way I suppose I have been doing this for some time at The Weekly Songcast, which I have currently put on hold in order to focus on this - a kind of extension and integration of what the WSC was about anyway, sharing my work as a developing process. Here is what I ...

Musical Pick-Me-Ups: A Teaser

Step Out of Your Shadow! Everybody's got one. Yeah I know what you're thinking: An opinion or an a**h**e! Ha ha, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm taking about a shadow. Not a shadow that appears in the sunshine, but a shadow of the mind. An inner voice that seems as if it was was put there to fight against you, like it was someone else. If you refer to the post of my live performance of 'Don't be Afraid of Your Shadow' you can read a bit more about it there. This is a teaser after all for what ...

The Smoke Clears Finally

New found Health, Wealth and Freedom Another high point around 2000 was that I bought myself a new Apple Mac computer (my first one!) and a Digital Audio Workstation for recording music at home. On reflection it's crazy that I went so long without a decent way to record my music. It's what I love to do the most! My room consisted of a bed a corner with a clothes hanger and about every other inch of that room taken up with guitars, amplifiers, speakers, microphones and cables. The biggest news of 2000 however was a personal achievement, ...

The Ups and Downs of Pursuing a Dream

Back on my True Path via Many Detours As a result of having my life situation being turned upside down I felt that my life was crumbling around me. If only I had the awareness of a few things that I do now because if I had I would have known that my life was growing into all sorts of possibilities - Some of which probably slipped away from me as a result of me getting in my own way too! Although it didn't seem like it immediately the sudden change in my life situation was awakening me to something. I had ...

My First Experience of Songwriting

A New Era as a Songwriter (almost) Yes, 1998 ended up being quite an eventful year and carried with it some gems, hidden as catastrophes. About 3 months after the empty hole appeared, left by the ceasing of the band that I so enjoyed playing with, something came along to fill it's place. Those three months seemed to drag on endlessly at the time. There was no band rehearsal taking up my weekends and I now found myself in the position of seeing three friends much less often. I was bored and my job wasn't enough to distract me from my boredom. ...

It Started in Another Corner of the Universe

Seems like only Yesterday The Boy at Heart story begins way back before I had any awareness of the name and I certainly hadn't imagined quite the lifestyle I would be living today. Lets go back to 1996. Do you remember that far back. What I find incredible is that very soon 1990 will be 20 years ago! In 1996 I wrote a song. It didn't have a title, but it was a song. I was playing in a band (I have played in several over the years) and it was at the height of the "Brit ...

Time to Tell You a Story

Here begins the story of how all this came about. Forgive me for the self-indulgence, although that is not the actual intention here. I want to create an environment where you feel you can get to know me a little better and have some kind of relatedness to me and what I do. I myself tire of blog posts that aren't forthcoming with actual, useful information, but instead go on about the author of the blog post. 'Save that for the About page' I think to myself and here I am writing a series of posts about me. However with the mind ...

Mistakes? They are Essential to Success

(those that) Never Made a Mistake Very quickly, after being reminded of the fact that mistakes happen, they are part of learning, progress and they always feature along the path to success. Here is how I express this philosophy in my own way from my album "All in a Life's Work" It was my Grandmother who inspired the title. She told me "Those who never made a mistake never made anything" She is right.

Ready Fire Aim. My Success Strategy

Hey, Good timing! You picked a great time to turn up! I was just getting everything ready for you. Well to be honest there's a lot to be done, but seeing as you're here why not come on in and maybe you can help out by making some valuable suggestions. Make yourself at home, tell me what you're up to and what you're looking for and let's get things moving! You know what the energy is like when something is being planned, constructed and implemented? Lots of activity, followed by a period of quiet reflection - a 'heads up' on progress to make ...

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Shadow

You Are Not to Utter These Words... "I can't!" - Is that clear? I don't want to hear you say that to yourself. Other people may tell you that you can't or they may try and pull you down with totally unconstructive negativity, but your own voice of doubt has more destructive power than anyone outside of you. Good. I hope that's clear. What I refer to in this song as your shadow is that very voice of doubt; all those thought you may have from time to time that steal your motivation, enthusiasm and self-belief. Don't buy into it and keep ...