I love all music. The fact that we as humans can create something that touches our souls in a note or two, blows me away. One of my favourite pieces of music is Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto #1. The amount of times I have driven in my car, with this music, so loud, that I have felt it in every cell of my body, is too numerous to count. I have had grandpas grin at me, when parked next to me at the traffic lights, laughing at the fact that there is a “doof, doof” happening in the car next to them, but that the music is not “doof, doof” music.

I also think orchestras are such a wonderful metaphor for team work. The most humble instrument, like a triangle, if missing from a piece, can make the piece feel incomplete. At work, I have often spoken of the fact that everyone in the team plays a role and it might only be an occasional clash of the cymbals, but without it the piece is not the piece. And when the team plays out of harmony, the sound can be excruciating, but in harmony and balance, respecting each others’ pauses and silences and getting the timing right, the piece can move mountains. I have loved working in teams where the music, the precision and timing has been awesome and the outcome and delivery superb.

It is why I choose my music so carefully on the train in the mornings, it sets the tone for my day, it reminds me that even if I am just a tiny triangle in the piece, it is key to what is being done. Or even if I am the solo pianist, leading the piece, without the orchestra, I am just a lone piano. When it all comes together with the backing of the orchestra it is fantastic! We are inter dependant, we need each other to succeed and directing our intentions and approaching life with compassion and gratitude, makes for some beautiful music…

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