Message of the Day - Playing The Garden!

Good Morning,

 

I like seeing new organizations getting started and working toward their goals, fulfilling their missions. When they are out the organizations’ staffs are passionate and focused on success. They have the big picture in mind (or they should) and push forward through obstacles and set-backs as they make their way toward making a difference in the lives of others.

 

When I was a teenager and huge KISS fan (I am still a KISS fan), I remember reading how they used to play in clubs on Long Island, New York, prior to making it big time. They would be at a bar or club and have the walls behind them, on either side of the drums, set up with piles of amplifiers as if they were playing The Garden (Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York City). In those piles of amps, there were generally only three working amps. One for each of the guitars (lead, rhythm and bass).

 

When they played in those pubs and bars, they did not envision the night as KISS playing in such and such bar, but KISS playing at The Garden.

 

Every gig was The Big One.

 

Every night was another blockbuster, sold-out show at The Garden.

 

Some may call it delusion to play a venue for 50 people and in your mind, play for 50,000.

 

Others call it success-focused thinking.

 

Like some football teams who play to their opponents level in each game, not to their own level, by playing a gig as if it were the The Big One means that your performance will be the best it can be. You would all agree that if you were doing a talk in front of 10 people you might prepare differently than if you were doing a talk in front of 10,000 people.

 

Seeing the big picture, and living it, even though the real thing would be years away, KISS made the move from obscurity to world-wide fame, and in some cases, fortune.

 

We can use the same big-picture thinking and living in our lives in pursuing our dreams.

 

Maybe each of my messages here is more than just an email sent to a blog and blasted to about 100 people. Maybe it is my life’s work, being seen by millions around the world.

 

In fact, when I write these messages, I think of the millions who may read it and what they may get from it, and how it will improve their lives (starting with all of you!).

 

Living that big picture in what we are passionate about makes a big difference.

 

It will help us get closer to our dreams. Our Big Picture Dreams!

 

So get out there and in whatever you do, play The Garden!

 

Enjoy!

 

Sanford Berenberg

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