[Fmpro] cooperation vs competition

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Kiki, will you adopt me? I'm an older child (52), but I am done with 
college - which is quite a savings! - JohnB

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From: "Sunblossom Records" <sunblossom at arvig.net>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] cooperation vs competition


> "impossible and unattainable"
>
> Hi Fernando,
>
> The line between what is impossible and unattainable is increasingly 
> blurred.  I was in elementary school from about 1962 to 1968.  If you had 
> popped into my fifth grade class from the year 2008 and given us all a 
> description of the early 21st century, it might have been a challenge for 
> us to wrap our minds around your vision of the future. And for a more 
> dramatic comparison, imagine sharing the news of today's technology with 
> Beethoven's contemporaries. You might be locked up.
>
> Passion and love are strong creative forces and we are constantly 
> evolving. And there are two paths to choose at any given moment:  love or 
> fear.  Positive or negative emotions flow from these two choices. Some of 
> the choices we've made in the past have been fear-based, the result of 
> which we see before us in the form of war, genocide, poverty, hunger, 
> torture. Some of our choices have been love-based and we see that manifest 
> before our very eyes: things now exist because of a thought in someone's 
> mind combined with a passionate feeling in someone's heart.  Look around 
> the room you're sitting in right now.  Is there anything you see that was 
> not originally a creative thought?
>
> If you believe that the music industry is a competitive nasty business 
> where people cheat, lie and steal to get ahead and where there is not 
> enough to go around, you will be right.  You will be able to prove your 
> "rightness" through example after example. The more you believe this, the 
> more evidence will show up in your life to support your beliefs about the 
> industry. You will magnetize people to you who share your beliefs and make 
> them stronger.
>
> If you believe that the music industry is full of supportive, creative, 
> loving people who want to help each other manifest their unique visions, 
> and that there is enough for all, you will be right. You will be able to 
> prove your "rightness" through example after example. The more you believe 
> this, the more evidence will show up in your life to support your beliefs 
> about the industry. You will magnetize people to you who share your 
> beliefs and make them stronger.
>
> It comes down to free will and choice. Which music industry do you choose 
> to participate in?
>
> For me personally, in the music industry, I have walked both paths. I have 
> the battle scars and stories to corroborate the fear-based view of the 
> music business.  Now, I find the supportive, abundant, creative music 
> industry a lot more fun so I hold that vision in my mind and am 
> continually surprised and delighted by new experiences.
>
> Neither belief system is right nor wrong, better nor worse.  They are just 
> different choices.
>
> Peace and earthly sanity,
>
> Kiki
>
>
>
>
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