The Wedding Cake Facial

I don’t care what she says, no doesn’t always mean no.

Sometimes when a woman says “no” she means “I want you to do this but I can’t ask for it”. How many times do we see this today? I could write a whole book on this topic but I’m just going to stick to one example today.

Wedding cake.

Let me just make this very clear. Wedding cake was meant to be smashed in faces of the groom AND the bride. That is the way things should be but somewhere along the line a few women started telling men “ohhh it will ruin my make-up and all the time I put into making myself look good will be ruined”. Men being the logical people we are thought “oh she’s right, that makes sense so we should follow that reasoning”. What happened to emotion? What happened to the value of passion and playfulness in marriage? Isn’t that what’s missing from MOST marriages today?

What if instead of listening to his new bride, the man cuts a piece of cake, gets ready to feed her but instead looks his wife in the eyes, says “baby, I love you, but you look better like this…”, then smashes cake in her face (we would save the hair). Then after both parties have sufficiently smashed cake in each other’s faces they exchange a passionate, cake-filled kiss.

That action is what we crave in relationships today. There is no passion when we think logically and women, although they are amazing emotional beings, are being taught more and more to think logically. When a man knows a woman’s true heart and can penetrate that logic with passion and emotion, he will unlock the true beauty of a woman and the relationship will prosper.

Plus, aren’t cake smashing pictures the best?

Music Is Not My Passion

So this may seem odd, right? I love playing music, I love writing songs and I definitely love performing, but music isn’t my passion, it’s not my purpose, and I think that’s an important distinction.  It took me a while to figure it out but after many years of reflection, I realized that what I really love is the chance to inspire people.  I guess music found me because it’s a pretty awesome way to inspire people, right?  Music is the vehicle through which I am able to inspire people.  If I have something to say, I could give a speech, write a book or write a song, and for me music is always the best way to truly reach people.

As I grow as a performer, singer and songwriter I’ll always have one thing on my mind – inspiration.  It’s simple.  The bigger (and more powerful) my sphere of influence is, the more I will be living out my purpose, and to do that I see no better way than by making music that reaches millions.

So that’s the plan.

I can’t wait to hire my parents

In my eternal search for self-awareness, I often examine my strengths & weaknesses, not just to identify them, but to see where they came from.  One of my strengths is following through on promises, but I can’t take any credit for it.  Ever since I was old enough to remember, my parents have followed through on literally every promise they’ve made to me.  I don’t mean most of the time, and I don’t mean when they remember, I mean EVERY time.  I don’t even think they have any sort of “to do lists” or planners to assist them, they just remember, and take care of it.  It’s amazing.

If I said to them, “Hey parents, I know this is a strange request, but I need you to ship me the pair of shoes I wore in 8th grade, I have no idea where they are and I need you to wait 2 months to ship them…” in exactly 2 months, they’d be shipped to my door step, no reminding, no forgetting.  It’s given me quite a standard to live up to, and all I can say is I do my best.

Back in 2001 while I was a freshman at the Naval Academy, one of the upper class that I reported to asked me to find out who said a quote that was loosely paraphrased as “the more I screw up, the more people seem to like me”.  The fact that he didn’t recite the quote exactly really made it tough to look up, so it wasn’t as simple as whipping out my iPhone and googling it (can you imagine iPhones in 2001…?!?).  I talked to my parents that night and casually asked them, they didn’t know, but they said they’d find out.  3 months later I get a call from my Mom who said she figured out it was JFK, and he was responding to the Bay of Pigs fiasco.  I was pretty shocked to hear that she even remembered our conversation.  Since then I’ve actually been careful to not ask my parents anything that I don’t really think is that important, because whether it’s important or not, they will spend the time and effort to get it done for me (don’t worry… I still ask them for plenty).

Since I plan on building the business of my music to extend far beyond what I can do myself, I’m always thinking about who I’m going to involve when the time comes that I can pay others to help me.  I’ve got a lot of loyal friends, some of the best fans, but I’ll need some one who’s extremely dependable and consistent as a rock.

Who do you think will be on the top of my list?

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Be Nice or Leave

I drove by a house in New Orleans yesterday that had a sign on the door that read "BE NICE OR LEAVE".  I've seen that expression before and I know many of you have too.  Isn't that kind of like saying, "Quit f-ing swearing"?

If you were to walk into that house would you expect to meet nice people?