The Noise In My Head

I have a new favorite band and song: Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song.  Play the video and listen to this song while you read this blog.

It's a very powerful song that poured itself directly into my consciousness tonight.  A song that filled me with the thought of the noise in my head.  The idea that my head is filled with a drumming, a desire to do something amazing, a noise that refuses to be silent until I am living this passion.

The movie Inception spoke about an idea (quotes are here). An idea that will possess you. An idea that will come to change everything. An idea that like a virus is resilient, highly contagious, and with the smallest seed can grow to define you.  Seth Godin talks about this in his book "Unleashing the Ideavirus". And this is the affliction I have come to be addicted to.  So now, I do not have a choice but to materialize this. As James Cameron said in his TED talk, I am now forced to use my imagination as a force that can actually manifest a reality.

So here's the question: "Do you have a transformational hunger that won't let you rest until you bend the world to satiate it?"  If you don't, go find one.  Go out into the world and find an idea that will define you, that will change everything, that will force you into a metamorphosis.  As Socrates said at his trial for heresy "The unexamined life is not worth living."  So examine yourself, examine your life, and find a transformational hunger and satiate it.

See you on the wire

-- Steven Cardinale

I Want It Sooooo Bad

Have you ever wanted something soooo bad?  I mean truly wanted something?  Wanted it so bad that you're willing to change the world to get it? Willing to risk the status quo; willing to go out of your comfort zone; willing to do whatever it takes (and I mean really willing)?

I've been hit by this concept again and again lately.  I spoke of it in my desire blog, but I was just given a jolt of desire electricity the other day by a friend. He's become a cyclist; and has gotten good at it.  And I was told that "he would move Heaven and Earth" to make his rides.

That struck me ... hard ... like a hammer blow.  He's willing to move Heaven and Earth to get what he wants ... and it's worked ... he's become what he wanted to become.

So I've got a couple of things that I really want to come into reality lately.  Just thoughts, dreams, hopes, desires right now, but I can feel myself being drawn to them. As James Cameron says in his Ted Talk "imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality."  But you can only manifest a reality if you truly want your dream: If you are willing to move Heaven and Earth.  And people who do amazing things, do move Heaven and Earth.

I wrote on my Facebook page the other day that "I'm in the mood to make some noise and do something amazing" and it is these wants that I'm talking about.




In his book "How to Get What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want," Dr. Wayne Dyer talks about how to manifest what you want.  Of course the first part is wanting it bad enough to make a change and make it happen.

When I talk about moving Heaven and Earth, I mean what belief(s) (Heaven) will you have to question, challenge, give up to make it happen: And what core behavior(s) (Earth) will you need to question, change, let go of, to get what you really, really, really want?

So here's the question: "What do you really, really, really, really want?"  "What would you move Heaven and Earth to have?"  What would you have to let go of in your head and in your heart to get it?  Maybe that cost is too high?  Maybe you've just been kidding yourself and you'd only like it, and don't want it.  Maybe you're not willing to play in the sandbox that has your dream in it.

Then again ... maybe you are willing to challenge the status quo ... your status quo ... and move Heaven and Earth to have What You Really, Really, Really, Really Want.

See you on the wire

-- Steven Cardinale