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    The Musicians Best Friend: A Book About Creating a Pathway to Your Success
    The Musicians Best Friend: A Book About Creating a Pathway to Your Success
    The Musicians Best Friend: A Book About Creating a Pathway to Your Success
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    The Musicians Best Friend: A Book About Creating a Pathway to Your Success

    By Ndugu Chancler

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    This book talks about all those along the way you must befriend to find your own way.From this you realize that your success is enhanced with the help of many others.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateApr 30, 2016
    ISBN9790052631567
    The Musicians Best Friend: A Book About Creating a Pathway to Your Success

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      The Musicians Best Friend - Ndugu Chancler

      FRIEND.

      CHAPTER 1

      A FRIEND TO BEFRIEND

      When you are warm and friendly, people gravitate toward you. These people are instrumental in connecting your life with the world. There is nothing wrong with being liked and admired by people who share a closeness to you that are not originally family. These people not only become extended family, they also become friends in some capacity and to some degree. To be friendly is to open your heart and soul to the people of the world to what they have to offer you, and what you have to offer them. Friendship, unlike kinship, stretches the boundaries of mutual respect, admiration, and concern for one another’s well-being. To be a friend is to be there through the thick and the thin, the good and the bad, from the here and now until the ultimate end. Not to be taken lightly, friendship is based on trust, honesty, unconditional respect, and admiration for each other. To be able to go through this life with a true friend is a boundless true asset. With God as your co-pilot and a true friend, you can navigate your way to any and everywhere.

      Being a true friend requires great works from both sides. Friendship is the ultimate equal partnership. No one person does all of the work. At some point the friendship will be challenged and tested on both sides to prove its depth. Accepting and understanding one’s character is key to accepting and dealing with a friend. There are degrees of depth for each friendship you acquire. Your first true friend should be you to yourself. Before you can spread friendship to anyone else, you first have to be your own best friend. By understanding and creating a way for you to communicate truthfully to yourself is the first order of how to truthfully communicate with others. If you go through life living with deception, untruths, and false realism, then your foundations of friendships will not be stable and will only last until the truth be told.

      The musician’s best friend is not one particular person, but more so the concept that it takes a team of the world to create, motivate, and sustain great things while creating great people. No one reaches any heights alone. There are always stellar casts behind the scenes that have helped you get wherever you are going. With this basic premise of understanding, it becomes necessary for you to understand that there is great value in befriending all of the people that are traveling on the road to your success. No matter how large or small the task, that task is important to the team you are a part of. Everyone’s role should be looked upon and respected as an integral part of the team.

      By constantly motivating each task-maker to a sense of purpose and value in the success chain, you will yield greater and more efficient results in building a winning team for success. Everyone loves to be a part of something great, but also wants to have a great sense of value for the good job that they do as part of the team. Treating everyone with the same amount of respect and worth will motivate people to be behind you 100% and do their job to the best of their abilities. The simple human analogy is that we are all important. As an individual you should feel the importance of doing your job to the best of your abilities. We are all important to this unique thing called life, and all have a significant purpose to be found so we can exemplify our purpose.

      THE MUSICIAN’S BEST FRIEND IS EVERYONE THAT IS INVOLVED IN THE SUCCESSFUL EXISTENCE OF THE MUSICIAN IN THEIR LIFE!!!!!

      CHAPTER 2

      ON SUCCESS

      Success in life requires a certain amount of consistency. Success in business is based on consistent supply and demand, along with a strong repeat-client base. In the music business having a consistent circle of people to work with throughout your career will ensure longevity and a flourishing career. Building strong relationships is the key to success in any business. Musicians also thrive on being in demand, loved and needed by other musicians and the public.

      Being good takes a lot of responsibility. Being the best takes even more. In order to get to the top of the heap, you must do better what everyone else does well.

      CHAPTER 3

      YOU

      As artists, being creative has often been dubbed different or out of the box. In your initial desire to pursue your own career goals and follow your dreams, you need to be in a healthy environment that is encouraging and supportive of those dreams. One of the first steps to beginning your own pursuit is befriending yourself and all of the positive aspects of your life. With this new self-friendship should be the initial protection of your goal and dreams not having them misguided by other’s thoughts and dreams. Self-friendship starts with the inner soul-searching of what you truly are about and what you want out of your own work and desires. Self-friendship protects you from the misconception that you are incapable of what you desire. This friendship empowers you with the strength and dedication to take the steps and set time aside for you. It is not important at this time to publicly proclaim your dream. Just as your dream started as an inner vision within your soul, so should your initial setup of your actions and steps by which you are to go about pursuing your dreams. At this beginning comes some form of affirmation within you to move into this new effort of work toward your dream.

      As you learn that your first best friend is you to yourself, you also learn that you have to remain true to yourself in the reality of whether you are honestly serving yourself as a true friend. In serving your friendship to yourself, you must respect all of the essences of who you are, how you are, why you are, where you are, and where you are to go. To be true is a hard thing to do if you have not developed self-security of who you are. Oftentimes we float out of reality and drift into a conscious dream state that hinders us from acknowledging the truth about our own state of being. We learn to grow out of darkness into the light of our own desires if we look at our lives as a beacon waiting to be turned on and shining ever so brightly. Just as in birth we come from a dark, warm, protective place, we must create a similar place in our life to protect us. Despite the fact that there may be sheer darkness around us, we must in light create that new safe haven for our dreams. Who can better protect what we have than ourselves. It is up to us to treasure what we hope to be. There should be no better friend than you to yourself. Though this is not always the case, it is essential in beginning to utilize all of the support you may get once you proclaim your dream.

      Before depending on others for strength, we must first have that strength within. This strength must be a giant think tank, work factory, time manager, objective criticizer, and reality checker.

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