What ever it is – keep the dream alive.
“Envision the future, embrace the presence and achieve more than imagined.”
Johanna C. Nilsson (if I may quote myself)
There just gotta be some action in the embracing part… 😉
What is your next step?
Johanna
Photo credit: I fucking love science.
I’m coming home for Christmas! As I bought the ticket and the excitement started rushing up in me, the Christmas song started playing in my mind, “I am coming home for Christmas”, by Peter Jöback.
Then, it hit me…
Peter was a musical artist and rising star when I grew up. My cousins neighbor was his friend, and we were cheering for him when he participated in the “Melodifestivalen” – the pre-contest for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Peter was also managing the audition for the choir to the Lasse Kühlers Dansskola – the dance school where I ended up going for 5 years prior to the Ballet Academy. I was so so nervous for the singing audition. “Vem kan segla… ” (One of the easiest tunes there is.)
Peter was also “one of the Special Guests” in the US tour of Robert Wells Rhapsody in Rock with shows in Chicago, Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and The Civic Theatre in San Diego 2005. The show, that was the incentive to register my company “Go Blue Promotions” (now dba Herringbone) – while working our butts off to get 1000 people in the audience in San Diego, so my friend Ylva Andell Elias could be a local guest artist singing on stage.
Peter, is now the Phantom of the Opera. On Broadway.
http://youtu.be/r9Mkxw91nK0?t=2m6s
Three years ago I got the question: “Name three things you would do when you become a millionaire.” I think we had 5 minutes. I shared it in an earlier post: I have a Dream. This was one of the 3 things:
Realize the vision of the Herringbone platform, selecting a true Herringbone story from Africa and turn it into a musical on Broadway, NYC – with performing cast from Africa.
That particular extension of the “Herringbone platform” was not something I had not thought before. But it stayed with me. And last week I got a non-profit in Africa wanting to use the solution – once it is created. (A minor hook).
The future will tell. Maybe I will have Peter to thank for reaching Broadway. Or I will manage the audition for him to be part of the cast…
Is it only me, or is your mind also taking loops like this? What is your dream? You may as well put it in words now… you never now.
What ever happens: Thank you for the music. Peter Jöback with Rapsody in Rock, and Ylva Elias at San Diego Civic Theatre exactly 8 years ago, November 13, 2005:
Enjoy,
Johanna
When I started this blog some 3-4 years ago, I did it because I had an urge to write – although I didn’t quite know about exactly what. Initially I just wrote from my heart and posted, quickly looking to see if it got any hits at all. If someone was reading. Curiously hiding behind the screen.
I got a push to make it public within a week of start by a coach friend of mine. So I did. (more…)
…what is it that you love that would bring your voice and life back should you be in this position?
For me – music, yoga, dance. If you ever see me with my head down – that would lift me up. And even if I know it, it is easy to forget. Even without Alzheimer.
It’s not a coincident that I together with Emma, my partner in crime in a Co-Active Leadership Program, created a workshop called “Dance to the voice of your core”.
May we never forget. Put on the music and get movin’! Do you feel that spring is in the air?! 😉
Enjoy,
Johanna
AND DO SEE this movie. To the end. – The full article is in today’s Mashable.
Love is in the air. Do do do, do do do….
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