Nostalgic Music Month Day 21
The Moody Blues by Jon Hilton
In the mid 80’s I really discovered the music of the Moody Blues. It was more thought-provoking and interesting. The songs are both musically beautiful and supply a great message about life if you take the time to listen. As I have grown over the years my philosophy of life has allowed me to find even more connections to the music and to the days of my youth. Life is a gift and we are all trying to live it in the best way we can. Sometimes you are up and everything goes your way, and other times you are faced with challenges that serve to test us. Either we learn lessons and move forward a better equipt person. Or we might be destroyed by them. The music of the Moody Blues brings hope that the results of all your challenges will be to be successful in life.
- Tuesday Afternoon– Whenever I hear this song, I immediately think of the 16-year-old me. I used to spend about 30 minutes every morning before I would go to school, drinking coffee and listening to music I liked. This song reminds me of those times. As I began to develop self-
reflective skills that helped me look at what was happening in life and try to understand the emotions I was experiencing because of them. This is a skill with a lot of value today. There are still moments of anger, frustration, embarrassment, etc. This song reminds me that it is OK and there is a beauty in each day to enjoy. I’m looking at myself reflections of my mind. It’s just the kind of day to leave myself behind. So gently swaying through the fairyland of love. If you’ll just come with me you’ll see the beauty of TUESDAY AFTERNOON. - Nights in White Satin– I was talking about this song the other day and it just may be one of the greatest love songs ever written. Love is a confusing emotion that makes you react from hormones and operate from a more emotional and be less pragmatic about things. At least in my experience that has been the case. Love has the power to make your life more intense, more vital and provide each day with a unique flavor. Unfortunately, most people are never taught the problem with something
so powerful is that we are in constant fear of losing it. That fear leads to jealousy, envy, cruelty, neglect, and downright meanness. All of this could be solved just by clearer communication and trust. But we are only human after all and the lessons will continue until the game is up. Gazing at people, some hand in hand. Just what I’m going through they can’t understand. Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend. Just what you want to be, you will be in the end. - Question– One of the most powerful tools we possess in life is the ability to question. Not only what others are doing and how it affects our lives. Also, we have the ability to question ourselves, our lives and the situations we find ourselves in. All change and self-reflection come from the asking of questions about things. There is a philosophy called Access Consciousness which is based totally on developing your question asking tools. Once a question is asked there is no choice but to find the answer. The secret, I think, is to make sure you are asking the right questions. And when you stop and think about it. You won’t believe it’s true. That all the love you’ve been giving. Has all been meant for you.
- Lovely to See You Again– People leave a mark. No matter who they are, when you deal with someone they change you in some way. The ones who change us in a positive way and share in good times are the ones we really value. When you are young and just learning, the potential for influencing your life is greater. Those are the people who you can see today after many years and no years have passed. It makes you wonder that people are so similar to each other but totally unique in the effect they have had on you and your life. People will not remember your accomplishments or your
intellect but they will always remember how you made them feel. In all of our interactions, we should be aware that we are leaving a mark on someone else’s life. These marks will define your life.
Lovely to see you again my friend. Walk along with me to the next bend. Dark cloud of fear is blowing away. Now that you’re here, you’re going to stay, ’cause it’s Lovely to see you again my friend. - Never Comes the Day– We tend to be working our lives away looking forward to the next step. A kid goes to elementary school looking forward to middle school. A kid in middle school looks forward to high school, high school to college, college to career, career to retirement. Then what? As people, I think we do not do a very good job of living in the moment and enjoying the part of your life that you are in. This day is all that you are guaranteed in life, this moment right now. As a young man, I didn’t really get this. This funny game of life can end in an instant. Better not to spend those instances with the people we enjoy, doing the things we like best. Give just a little bit more. Take a little bit less, From each other tonight. Admit what you’re feeling, And see what’s in front of you, It’s never out of your sight. You know it’s true, We all know that it’s true.
Kenny Loggins by Mike Martin
I remember the first time I ever heard, “Do something for 21 days in a row and it becomes a habit.”
Working as an Account Executive for an investment banking firm in La Jolla, California, Larry Isen was a top producer and full of wisdom. He was also under investigation by the SEC for insider trading but a good guy none the less.
I once played Torey Pines, North- a famous municipal golf course, owned by San Diego, California-and two other stockbrokers from the firm. We played skins, and I won nine dollars. Larry won the rest of the pool. This was my first sales job.
The founder of the firm was a high energy former member of the US Ski Team, Sandy Greenberg. His morning motivational calls were both educational and a little weird. I just found him on LinkedIn.
His profile says he is the Founder at SDG CONSULTING and still lives in the Denver, Colorado area. I sent him an invitation to connect along with a note explaining that I started working for his firm the day that I was discharged from the Navy, November 28, 1991.
My “office” at the investment banking firm was similar to the setup of the sales floor in the movie, Boiler Room- a 2000 American crime drama film written and directed by Ben Younger, and starring Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Tom Everett Scott, Ron Rifkin and Jamie Kennedy.
It had all the bells and whistles: a conference room, motivational posters, and other persuasions tools, and it overlooked the now Marine Corps Air Station Miramar formerly Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) Miramar and Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar. They view was incredible, and we got to watch Navy and Marine’s aviators fly their supersonic jets daily.
Top Gun is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. The film stars Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt. Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete 
“Maverick” Mitchell, a young renegade Naval pilot aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CV-65- the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
I served aboard the USS Independence CV-62 from 1988-1991 along with my lifelong friend and fellow altar boy and Boy Scout, Joe Audette
Listening to Danger Zone – one of the hit singles from the soundtrack for the movie Top Gun, which was the bestselling soundtrack of 1986, and one of the bestselling of all time—recorded and release by Kenny Loggins- an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who performed with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band from 1972 to 1977-gives you a little glimpse into the risk that Joe took on the flight deck of the Indy in the Support of your Freedom.
Thank you brother, no worries- I still think you’re an AssHat (smiley face) 
But, #OctoberNostalgicMusicMonth is all about sharing the love!
You’ll never say hello to you
Until you get it on the red line overload
You’ll never know what you can do
Until you get it up as high as you can go
Out along the edges
Always where I burn to be
The further on the edge
The hotter the intensity
Highway to the danger zone
Gonna take you
Please, have a great day, and if you have any questions, drop us a line and please partake in #OctoberNostalgicMusicMonth and while you are at it take a trip to Greenville, Maine-I understand the foliage is majestic this time of year! #visitGreenville
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