Don’t Let Your Music Die Inside Of You
25. Don’t let your music die inside of you. What music do you have to play?
I hope you find a Tool that has the same influence that this Tool had on me. I had received an email about Wayne Dyer coming to speak at a college right down the road. To be completely honest, at the time I didn’t really know who he was. I was drawn by the subject he was going to discuss and that the cost was only $50. As I remember, I had many excuses to not go.
Using one of the Tools that I will share with you (46, The best investment you will ever make is in your mind), I went. He had a lot of great information that he shared that night. When I hear a speaker or read a book, my goal is to come away with one thing that I can apply in my life. Tool 25 is what pushed this book into reality.
Mr. Dyer spoke of a fable about a man who was unhappy with everything about his life. This man went back and forth to work, missing everything all around him and cursing all that was his life. In the end on his deathbed, he ponders the question of if he did it right. The man was contemplating what he had made of his life. I am doing little justice to the story and apparently it’s one that many have heard. But what I heard next was something I had never thought of. Mr. Dyer said, “Don’t let your music die inside of you. What music do you have to play?” That was the day I knew I had to write this book.
What he was trying to say was that we all have something to say, something to contribute. If we don’t do it NOW, we may end up on our deathbed wishing we had. Now I don’t think it has to be that extreme. What I do believe from this Tool is that we need to make it happen now. Believe that you are not insignificant and that your ideas have value and need to be expressed.
When I first heard this, I was thinking about how I better do this book before something happens to me. Later, I realized the message was deeper than that. More important was the message that we all have music to play. We all have an instrument in the band that we play. By not letting your music die inside of you, you grow not only yourself, but the harmony of the band.