Monday Motivation 1/5/25 - Harmony & Humanity

Monday Motivation

Happy New Year and welcome to 2025. Let’s begin this year, this week, this chapter with a Monday Motivation featuring singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier, Chris Martin of Coldplay and the voices of a London audience.

Collier is working his way to purpose and calling in his music career with what he refers to as the audience choir experiment. He uses the voices of humanity gathered in an arena, trusts them with a starting point, a note as directed, and then conducts with universally understood motion to create harmony, giving voices the permission to start, to contribute and unite. He calls on the best, like Chris Martin, to get a bit uncomfortable with even their own music, share the harmony and trust the process. Collier has started to take samplings of the audience voices, their universal harmonies, and use them in his own music and albums.

Beyond beautiful harmony, innovation and profound music, here’s what I see.

I see Collier taking steps to align his talent, creativity, passion and trust in humanity to emblazon his own trail.
His guiding force is the belief that every person on the planet has a voice, compounded by the realization that when voices come together, beautiful things happen.
When given a starting note, voices create a pathway, a gravitational pull, underscoring that harmony doesn't happen when everyone sings the same note.
It’s not only the sound, but the experience, the value of the moment the unity happens, that’s the real magic.
Each voice, each of our voices, is magnified by the people around us. When we work together, create harmony, connect in that way, great things happen.

The work of Collier is a beautiful analogy for the work we do each day, for and with our business, patients and each other in this #OneBeautifulLife.

So to Collier’s innovation, Martin’s trust in the process and the power of harmonized human voices, let’s raise our Monday morning coffee mugs to 2025, have a listen and let it fix you. Make it a great week for our business, patients and each other.

Collier, Martin & London

Her Trips, My Trip

 As her memory leaves her, I open the journal titled ‘My Trip’ with their initials in gold, C & MM combined, like mine, their manuscript of travels beginning in 1969, pages of places traveled with people who have left us, of home addresses built by but no longer filled by them, stories of places and adventure they loved.

She gave it to me nonchalantly in an ordinary moment, as she kept it on the small table by her chair until the time she chose, after all this time, the passing of a travel time capsule, to me. It’s time to read it, but it feels anything but ordinary. Her travels her muse, her love. Where do all the memories go, I always wonder? If written, they time travel, the universe answers. So I read, and am called always, to write. Her trip now becomes mine. #OneBeautifulLife