I was chatting with a group of friends this past weekend around the topic of what makes individual people’s impact so different. In this context I reflected back a couple of years to an event that made a significant impression on me in this context. I attended the Rolling Stone’s Australia tour performance in the Hunter Valley, NSW and oh, what a show. 20,000 people of all ages and generations rocked to the music that these 70 plus year old guys pumped out for 2 hours, non-stop.
I grew up in the ‘60’s to the beat of the Stones. They came at a time when young people were questioning the values and traditions of society’s status quo. The Stones weren’t afraid to challenge the convention of the day and they performed their art with passion and conviction, (along with the sex and drugs).
Rocking with the rest of the crowd this weekend in the vineyard in the Hunter Valley it was such a reminder to me of the power of the passion behind the person/people. The repertoire of songs that were performed by Mick Jagger and the Stones have been sung by the group a thousand times before but they came across like it was the first time that they had played them and as far as I was concerned it was like the first time I had heard them.
These guys aren’t in the business of pushing any new sound tracks out to the market. There is nothing to sell but them and yet they got right to the hearts of the audience and moved them unbelievably.
I tend to see the world through a curious ‘lens’ at time and so I translate this into how this phenomenon of the Stones concert converts into life and business. I wondered, how often do you get blasé with the truly AMAZING worldview, method and practice of your day-to-day life?
How often do you forget to carry your passion for the MAGNIFICENCE of what you have to offer people?
How often do you go through the motions in life and business and take people for granted?
How often do your people receive a connection with you with a WOW factor just like their first one?
How often do you marvel at the wonders of the human being, the world and universe?
Take a moment to assess your state of passion for your life and make a decision to take it to the next level so that you can be wooing the crowds when you are in your 70’s.
