{"id":1346,"date":"2022-10-21T03:11:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T03:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2022-10-21T03:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T03:18:45","slug":"good-things-grow-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/good-things-grow-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Things Grow From&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us know this song.<\/p>\n<p>Sing along:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;We all live in a yellow submarine.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, hear the demo version for this landmark song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/2hSeZ8dIBzn5DOOxTcgc8g?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound like the final version that we know, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I love hearing musician&#8217;s demos. It the genesis. It&#8217;s the raw &#8220;toddling&#8221; beginnings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Scrambled Eggs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Play along with me for the next one. Can you guess what song this is (hint: It&#8217;s a famous hit):<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Scrambles eggs, oh baby how I love your legs.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any luck?<\/p>\n<p>That is the first lyrics for Paul McCartney&#8217;s hit, Yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics erm, improved.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Yesterday, all my troubles seem so far away.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Take the First Step (Not the Second)<\/h4>\n<p>All things start from somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And that somewhere may seem unpromising. Heck, you might even feel like an impostor, or not good enough. And that does not matter.<\/p>\n<p>What you think about you and your abilities, doesn&#8217;t really matter.<\/p>\n<p>Say you go for a job interview. Who gets to decide whether you are &#8220;the one&#8221; for the job?<\/p>\n<p>Not you.<\/p>\n<p>When you go on a date, who gets to decide if you are &#8220;the one&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Not you.<\/p>\n<p>When you release a song to the streaming platforms, who gets to decide if your song is going to be a hit?<\/p>\n<p>Not you.<\/p>\n<p>So what are we to do?<\/p>\n<p>Take, the first step.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00a0<em>first<\/em> step, is everything.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the poet David Whyte:<\/p>\n<h5><em><strong>Start Close In<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Start close in,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>don&#8217;t take the second step,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>or the third,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>start with the first\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>thing<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>close in,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>the step,\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>you don&#8217;t want to take.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Because, as we observe this in nature and biology\u2014just notice your gardens and potted plants\u2014good things grow from sh*t.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[82,68,130],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological","category-reflections","tag-creative","tag-music","tag-procrastination","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darylchow.com\/fullcircles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}