Business and Music - Paul Tobey

Today is an awesome day! I’m really excited about my birthday today, not because I managed to reach the ripe old 44 relatively unscathed, not because I have the most amazing plans for my birthday (which I don’t), not because good things always happen on my birthday…. but because I just received a million dollars for my birthday!

Now, just wait! Hold your horses! Stop the bus! Jam on the brakes! I didn’t actually get it yet… but, I received the next best thing. Which is, “the intention to receive one-million dollars.” Both the actual million-dollars and the intention of receiving a million-dollars are equally as real, it’s just a matter of how well I can hold my intention in tact to receive it.

Ok, let’s back up a minute shall we. Would you like to understand how this has happened and how it can happen to you?

Here’s what’s happened so far today. First, I woke up this morning with a rather heavy heart because of a huge business challenge which made itself known to me yesterday. Now I’m not sweating the small stuff here. This challenge could potentially impact my music career in a very negative way. I made the decision not to allow that to happen. It will work itself out. Still, the challenge is on the table and I can do very little but try to keep a positive outlook on it and do my best to focus on solutions rather than focus on the problem.

As I made my way out of bed to help my son off to school Nancy came down to help me and we started discussing that challenge right away. What are we going to do? How can we make this better? etc etc…. Then, as we’ve done many times before, we just said “it will work itself out, one way or another.” That must have permeated the universe somehow because I felt instantly better. And, when I feel better, I manifest.

Then as the laws of the universe took over, after driving my son to the bus stop, I opened my computer to a couple of very interesting emails. The first was an e-card birthday greeting from a good friend of mine Mary Ann. In her infinite wisdom she had carefully selected a flash e-card depicting a spiritual guru on top of a mountain singing “Happy Birthday To Me…”! As he’d blow out the candle, it would mysteriously light itself again! Now, I’m certainly not a guru, and I don’t think Mary Ann thinks of me as a guru (well, maybe a piano guru), but the image did remind me of a powerful lesson.

I took a snapshot of the e-card to show you…it’s freakin’ hilarious!

The lesson being: we create our own reality. I was reminded that I create reality through my thoughts, intentions, my choices and my emotions. I know that. The difference between creating the world I truly want and attracting conflict is generated by my thoughts. If I can control my mind to think only about what I do want then I can manifest everything I want.

So, after this email came the piece-de-resistance! I got an email from my affiliate manager in Australia, Tony. Truth be told I’ve never met Tony, at least not in person. We originally hooked up when we collaborated on a spiritual DVD project almost 2-3 years ago. We communicate through email, MSN and Skype. What a world of technological wonder we live in! We work together but have never met. His email was my million-dollar birthday present. You see, we’re working on a project right now that will help thousands and thousands of tinnitus sufferers worldwide. I developed a series of “how-to” books and audio recordings that will help chronic Tinnitus Sufferers. Why? Because I was so moved by other people’s suffering, I felt a huge responsibility to share what I have learned about my own chronic suffering Tinnitus. I now live a 100% tinnitus-free life and I want to share that knowledge with fellow tinnitus sufferers. If you want to read about those products go here “Tinnitus Free”

Tony is helping me to attract affiliates that will help distribute this information world-wide. Tony understands, like I do, that it’s our intention that will see the project manifest and grow to help people. That’s why he sent me today’s email, because the contents of that email will help us do just that. So, what was in that email? That’s the good part… it’s called the “Million Dollar Experiment.”

How does it work?

I’ve been able to manifest many things in my life just by creating the intention and allowing it to happen. So, why didn’t I manifest a million-dollars before? I never truly thought about it before. I’ve never been very materialistic and I viewed great wealth as a source of pain. Boy, was I wrong. Money can be a great thing in the hands of smart people. For example; I know that I can do a lot of good with a million dollars. Like what for example? Well, for starters I can create employment for others in the arts and further support the arts. It will allow me to make more “how-to” products which will help people create better lives. I can give more to charity and support more projects close to my heart. I can have more free time for myself and others etc etc.

Many people would say that rich people are greedy. I thought that too for 1/2 of my life. Hmmm, if you only have enough for yourself, how does that help anyone? Rich people, at least the ones I know, are great philanthropists. They’re also in large part much happier, because they don’t worry about money. Do you worry about money? I do. I have done that most of my life. That’s how I grew up, worrying about money. No more! Today, I was reminded that I create my reality. I set an authentic intention to create wealth in my life to help more people. How will this happen? When will it happen? Will it happen? I’ll let the universe figure that out. I’m detached from the when, where and the how. I’m open to this Experiment.

If you are interested in learning more about this “Million Dollar Experiment” , go here and read this amazing post “Million Dollar Experiment” which will lead to a second post, then to a third and finally the sign-up form. It’s absolutely free, no gimmicks! It will take you 15 minutes of your time to carefully read through the introduction. Take a look around his blog. There is a wealth of information to discover! Thanks to Tony! And thanks to Steve Pavlina for having the vision to experiment!

Happy birthday to me!

Paul Tobey

When my little guy Adrian jumped into our bed for his usual morning hugs, he happened to steel all the blankets off of me as he tried to snuggle right in the middle of my wife and I. It’s cute, but a little cold!Overnight, my wife Nancy somehow put out her back and was in pain struggling to get upright. This meant I had to fly solo to get Adrian out the door for the second day of school before I headed out to the gym. I don’t like flying solo.

My dog peed on the new wood floors, and I had to clean it up. I gave Nancy over the counter meds for her back pain, got Adrian off to school…only to forget to pack his lunch. I had to run over to the school which is across town to get Adrian his lunch in time for first snack.

I met my business partner in Toronto who happily shared his travel stories to Russia. That’s because he fell in love while he was over there. He was gone for a month! This is the equivalent of saying that we hardly got any business done today.

My Cadillac’s engine warning light goes on, which means it needs repair. I get back to the office to find a very disturbing letter about an upcoming performance…only to find out that my contacts know nothing of it and need to look into it.

Adrian comes home from school saying he needs new friends, because his old ones are not “feeling” right. Nancy’s back is still sore. My daughter, who is second year of university calls needing to discuss a sum of 8K. I get a fax of 14 pages of arrangements I have to learn for Saturday. I’m running behind on deadlines for another of my Australian partners.

And I didn’t get one note of music done today!

So here is the thing! It’s my birthday tomorrow! I’d like wake up in the morning to both my hugs and my bed covers…thank you! No dog pee to clean up, no lunches to forget and no car to repair! I’d like my business partner to not move to Russia, and I’d like to meet my deadlines for my partner in Australia. I’d like to not receive any concerning emails about people wanting to reneg on deals. But most of all, I want my daughter to be worry free in University, and my son to discover he can be accepted amongst his friends and a happy wife free of back pain!

Oh yes, make that to include one golf game on a beautiful day (sometime this year!), a Cuban Monte Cristo, two uninterrupted hours on my piano and one great message to end that day. That would be a very good day indeed!

Paul

Juno nominee Paul Tobey brought his incredible talents back to Barrie for his second appearance at the Barrie Jazz and Blues Festival. Paul had participated in the second festival several years ago and was delighted at the opportunity to host a workshop and perform in concert this year.  I am fast finding out with more and more musical events that I attend that I am a big fan of these intimate and up close type of appearances. Paul Tobey is a dynamic individual. He is a natural in front of the audience both when he speaks and plays. His witty banter is very entertaining but of course it is his musicianship that is most moving. With an eclectic set list containing songs by jazz legend Dave Brubeck, Curly Putman’s Green Green Grass of Home (later made famous by the likes of Tom Jones and Elvis Presley), Led Zepplin’s Stairway to Heaven, classic Oscar Peterson, some original compositions and a host of other brilliant covers, it was a most enjoyable performance.

Paul Tobey started playing the piano when he was eight. Forgoing college for life experience, a fortuitous broken leg sent him back to school. It was an Oscar Peterson concert that inspired him to challenge himself to become a concert pianist. After even just the short time I spent in his company, it is hard to imagine him doing anything else. Yet he is more than just an accomplished concert pianist; he is a speaker, filmmaker, composer and pilgrim.

In 2002 Paul traveled the Camino de Santiago in Spain. It was a journey that took him over 2 months to complete but while on the path he was able to put together a documentary film of the experience and compose over 22 new pieces of music. He will be premiering The Road to Santiago Suite at “A Musical Journey Through Spain” next February with the Brantford Symphony Orchestra.

The concert series held in the Rotunda at Barrie City Hall was financially supported by Stollar Construction which enabled the festival to get a first-rate piano (The Yamaha CFIIIS Concert Grand Piano) supplied by The Piano Shop in Barrie.

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