Get Blissed!

Elton John, Billy Joel, Phil Collins and Freddie Mercury all have something in common, by a smidge of talent and the fact that they all pop star.

Watch Elton John perform I'm Still Standing or Billy Joel play my life at their pianos, or witness Freddie Mercury We Are The Champions for dissolution or Phil Collins on drums during the In The Air Tonight, and you will witness something magical happening, something that sends shivers down my spine. But what do they do?

There is the same 'something' that caused Bob Geldof to pull all his friends in the music industry together and raise millions for charity back in the eighties with the hit Do They Know ITS Christmas Band Aid and the subsequent appeal. Churchill has been to move the nation with powerful speeches, and all that stands between you and our true greatness.

But what is that 'something'? And it is quite easy to bring into our daily lives?

The answer is yes.

And 'to do with the first principle purpose of life, we all have a unique gift and a distinctive way to express it. The best way for me to explain this to you is to tell a short story.

A year ago I suggested that my son took music lessons with his grandfather. His Pappy is a professional musician, and if you're son is going to be the miracle that all parents hope 'to be, you want them to learn from a professional, is not it, especially if this is a per family member. He took the hint and here is what unfolds.

Nine months after he'd had enough. It seemed hard work. Of course mastery of balance - nothing wrong with your fingers - you could read the notes - nothing wrong with his memory - but he could not sit still in class and in each session of the week between us but never heard him practicing HIM minimal .

(If this sounds like you when you are at work? Play, doing what must be done and no longer able?)

After school he took off not in his room, connected to the keyboard and shocked himself with something new he had learned to do. He never hit the sky, Blissed out, his whole being surprised or excited over a new discovery. It never came to me, shook me from my book and said: "Hear this, Dad. It will blow your mind!"

We concluded that it was not his thing - each his own - and admitted only took her because he thought I'd be happy!

Stephen King once said, "Talent renders meaningless test: when you find something you like you do it until your fingers bleed and his eyes fall head ... every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy .

My son and I chatted. We concluded if there is no joy in it, no sense in it, so it is better off spending practices at the keyboard looking for that 'something' else where you can hit so high, the fruits of joy and ensure His life becomes an energetic adventure.

Some of us pretend in life. We will do what we think makes our parents happy. Let's pretend to enjoy work. Let's pretend to be happy, as we sell our soul. Let's pretend to be artistic or creative, but never put grit in it and maybe ... just maybe we drift through life with the thought that there must be something else out there.

But life is an experience - a great talent show for us to show our skills. It 'a stage for us to use our skills for our entertainment and pleasure and the pleasure of those around us.

Life is not a practice for some future event which we hope will only fall from the sky. We make it happen.

Great writers write every day until my eyes fall on their head and their brain is not working, great coach coaches every day, great musicians playing until their fingers bleed. All of them love every single moment of what they do. This is passion. This blissing out. This is happiness. It is being one with your car - be really honest with who you really are.

Remember that you are heroes - great comedians, interviewers, musicians, singers, teachers etc. They have all the happiness in their eyes, hearts and minds when you care about most.

What is not fake another day. You and I came to this earth with a unique and special talent, but why in God's name do not use it for full. Why do spreadsheets and sweep the streets when there is first an artist or a therapist?

Put up brats with customers to call centers or organizing committee for the bazaar WI if that means anything to you, but please do not ever fool yourself about your level of passion and commitment when choosing what to do with your life.

My son did his attitude Blissed out of life as a year for ten years. How old are you?

You made the same commitment to your life again?