Keep Going

Tuesday, 3rd December 2014, 08:13

Whatever you’re doing don’t stop, keep going.

Despite you feeling like you’re building your beach grain by grain, keep going.

Focus on the moment, action by action, keep going.

Focus on the journey, step by step, keep going.

Sooner or later when you pause to rest and reflect, you’ll discover how far you’ve travelled.

The road that seemed to have no end, seems at least to have gifted you a change of scenery.

Look at how much you’ve grown.

You’ve got many tales to share.

Keep going, keep sharing, keep creating.

Context (Origins of Autobiography of a Nobody)

In two days I’ve made 2 sales of my EP, Autobiography of a Nobody to some DJs from Tel Aviv that I never knew would’ve known I ever existed, all thanks to me sharing my work via Soundcloud a few days earlier. When I messaged Verti Sahara to say thank you, she shared that I was found on the discovery page and she’d play ‘I’m Mad’ to open her set that weekend. When I think about the circumstances that I wrote and produced that track, even writing and publishing it a few days before her purchase it fills me with an immense sense of gratitude that my music is being heard. Paid for at that. A few days later I received another notification that another had purchased too. This may have been a result of Verti dropping the track at the rave and then maybe asking about the song. Again I sent a message to express my gratitude.

This has been the cherry on top of spending a majority of the past two weeks getting my affairs in order. The collective £8 (£10 before Bandcamp fees) within a few days of each other made me realise that it weren’t a fluke, word of mouth recommendations are equally as important as ‘social reach’ and it also reassured me that there are still DJs out there that search for music. Sounds very ignorant on my part to be honest, maybe because I haven’t DJ’d in years but I’m still amazed. I guess you can tell that when I create and release music my expectations are pretty low concerning listeners and even more purchasers. I knew about the power of Bandcamp as a consumer from my DJ days but now as a creator I’ll be paying so much more attention. It’s definitely given me the boost and incentive to keep going.

Make good music, everyone buys it. – Primark Boy

Stream / Purchase link for Autobiography of a Nobody

I’ve been wanting to shuffle things around for a while and the more I recorded was the more I realised that I need to make better use of this half of the room. Now I feel so much more productive and better energised to be in here for long periods of time.

I tried to tell you about it from the jump. I gave you hints that were littered throughout the content, hidden behind the allegory and metaphors but as always you opted to remain on the surface rather than dig a little deeper.

I’m not trying to push you off the ledge into the depths of the Mariana Trench or into The Devils Tunnel in the nether regions of Siberia, I’m just trying to give you a heads up.

This thing that we find ourselves apart of is an illusion.

We aren’t anything but a number, a piece of data, a username, IP address, a portal locked on, soldered and logged into a matrix where we exchange one of the most precious gifts; our time and energy, for a pittance.

We’ve been taught to believe that we should be grateful for what we’re given but if we see our time as the most priceless and precious thing, we’d covet and protect it more than we did our money and possessions.

Time doesn’t stop, it goes as fast or as slow as you want and you have the freedom to invest your time wherever you like.

To confine yourself to one place or a repeated circumstance being stagnant should be a criminal offence.

Stay on the move.

If not the body, the soul and the consciousness.

Physically we may not always be able to go to where we want to go but deep inside the mind we can go and do whatever we wish through imagination.

We think therefore we are, we project therefore we dream, envision and accomplish whatever it is we wish.

Invest your time and energy wisely because the clock don’t stop.

Tick-tock, tick-tock.

[The earth has moved 3,885km in the time you’ve read this blog.]

Nothing in life is guaranteed nor given, what you want you work for and when the desired amount of time, energy, and dedication has been poured into a the well, your wishes are granted. It’s not simply throwing coins into an abyss of nothing, it’s more about putting that coin into the well and filling it up so your dream can flow on and manifest into what you had envisioned.

The whole point of a wish is to plan and work hard to make it happen rather than make a wish and forget about it. The more resources you pour into the well is the more you can dip a bucket into it to replenish yourself. You’re creating a source of energy, a source of refreshment, a source of renewal. Until you begin to see it that way you’ll be wishing away forever.

Think about where that well flows. Think about the source of that well; is it from a pure source, does it flow through contaminated lands that need to be cleansed, does the course of which your well follow from source to mouth need a new direction?

Are you fulfilling your duty of care to others on the same journey or are you simply dumping nothing but carcinogens into the energy supply?

Are you the blockage in the system, the cause of stagnant contaminated water, how often do you service the incoming and outgoing energy paths to avoid blockage?

Always ask yourself what contribution you make to collective existence, what type of energy are you putting out; are giving anything at all or is everything just take, take, take?

Once you lose all sense of entitlement you begin to work harder to make stuff happen. Once you put yourself out there and initiate actions you begin to see returns, you begin to align with all you had wished for.

What are you doing today, at this moment in time, that your future self will be thankful for?

Are you willing to make the necessary changes to make things happen at the source of the energy flow, or will you continue to drift along through life hoping that something manifests out of the many empty wishes on the back of copper coins thrown into a dry well?

The choice is yours, always be the change you wish to see, create your opportunities.

Do Something Your Future Self Will Be Thankful For is featured on Cogitation.

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30 seconds is all it takes to fall in love.

In fact it takes less than a second to detach yourself from your inhibitions and slip into a vacuum where space and time doesn’t exist.

It’s a parallel reality of possibility where you can live out your passing fantasies to escape from the mundane 37.5hr obligation, the daily commute, and the stage of existence between how you envision your life being, what you’re currently doing to get there and where you are right now.

It takes a split second to decide whether you’re going to do something radical to what you’d usually do on a day to day, less than that for your body to complete the command and a lifetime of success once a habits been formed.

Nothing is ever long, it’s people that make it longer, better yet it’s the perception of time which makes it so.

I look at things in terms of energy, how much are you willing to give for the reward, is the reward worth the task, does it reflect how you value yourself?

Is the reward on an upward trajectory of what you forecast for yourself?

25th September 2017