Entries by CraigWilson

Song About Greed | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

I quote from the LA Times By Jim Puzzanghera on February 27:“In a new FBI ad, actor Michael Douglas says his Gordon Gekko character was wrong — greed is not good after all. As part of a campaign to fight securities fraud, the FBI released a public service announcement on Monday featuring Douglas. It begins […]

Living in Crescendo in any GIG!

This classic photo on bands makes a point. Regarding what you do in life, what are the perceptions of your parents, girlfriends or wives, society, colleagues, and even yourself compared to the reality?  I remember when I first started my career with Illinois Tool Works, my fraternity brothers thought I sold garden tools. Something tells me […]

Crescendo Morning!

How can you not live in Crescendo when you have a sunrise like this? Doesn’t the world’s morning greeting put a spring in your step? Hope certainly isn’t a strategy, but excitement pushes you closer to your strategy. Enjoy the day.

What to do when you find your Crescendo?

Okay, I haven’t heard from you as to what your crescendo is.  Does this mean you haven’t found it?  One friend of mine asked me, how can you possibly keep living life in crescendo when you would ultimately overload yourself? It’s not sustainable. Ah—but then you don’t know music. A crescendo merely increases the intensity […]

How do you find your Crescendo?

Did you watch Starwars and immediately understand what Obo Wan Kenobe was talking about when he told Luke Skywalker to “Know the Force” and do you even understand today? This blog is where academia ceases and the art of Zen comes more into play.  And to help you answer this question, I will guide you […]

The Effect of Goals and Living Life in Crescendo

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where–” said Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. “–so long as I get SOMEWHERE,” Alice added as […]

Why Live Life in Crescendo?

Sorry to get academic at first, but what does Merriam-Webster say about what it means to live? (And what are my comments about it?) Intransitive verb– 1: to be alive: have the life of an animal or plant (Congratulations—you could be a single-cell amoeba or hopefully Darwin has moved your forward) 2: to continue alive […]

What is Living Life in Crescendo?

Crescendo—“ Italian, from crescendo, adjective, increasing, gerund of crescere to grow, increase, from Latin” Living Life—Now that’s the question! The real discussion here is how do you live your life? What is your raison d’etre? (reason to exist.)  Optimists have a raison d’etre (reason to exist) or they wouldn’t be optimists. And if you have […]

Plagiarism is flattery or…

“Originality is undetected plagiarism.” William Ralph Inge “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” Dean Inge There is true irony in the above quotes.  With regard to music, you can have some real fun with www.whosampled.com It has over 127,000 songs and 45,000 artists and is attempting to trace their musical DNA. There are some fairly hysterical […]

Imagine

Imagine what music John Lennon would be creating today. Imagine what he would think about, hearing emerging talent like Tosin Abasi and Animals as Leaders. Imagine if he further expanded his writing skills by writing movie soundtracks or books. But still, it’s hard to Imagine all he did within his twenty years of unrestrained creativity […]