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I can tell you right now that down the road whatever organization or company is able to hire the trumpet player in today’s video, we will call him TT for Trumpet Tommy, they are going to get one hell of a leader.
Here’s why I say that.
He is Authentic.
He is NOT following a pre-established blueprint.
Nope.
The over-arching definition of Authentic Leadership style is where leaders “act in a genuine and sincere way that is true to themselves.”
Authentic leaders are known for:
Transparency: They are open and honest with others.
Self-awareness: They are aware of themselves and their actions.
Compassion: They are sensitive to the needs of others and want to help them grow.
Sense of purpose: They are driven by a deeper meaning and seek to serve others.
Trustworthiness: They earn the trust of their employees, peers, and shareholders.
Approachable: They create approachable work environments.
Positive outcomes: They lead to longer-lasting positive outcomes.
Some elements of authentic leadership include Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Ethical behavior, Commitment to personal development, and Discipline.
This is a young man that clearly has FULL Transparency and self-awareness-the dude is doing HIS thing HIS way!
TT has taken an unconventional path to pursue his own form of personal greatness. And there is only one path that you can take yourself that is right for you and only you can determine it, and it will never ever be the same as anyone else’s path.
That’s the thing nobody tells us.
Conventional wisdom tells us there is one formula or one path forward to success or two having a good life and really what that is a recipe for living an unauthentic life.
The truest definition of authentic is something of your own doing or your own choice or unique. When you copy someone else’s formula, you are the opposite about authentic or unauthentic.
When individuals learn how to connect with their higher self by in integrating their past traumas and experiences, they can then have the comfort to listen to those instructions and do the things that make them happy in their pursuit of their best version of themselves.
It is a lot easier to do this when you were young and to stick to it than to try to figure it out when you were much older, which means that this young trumpet playing dancing machine is taking the right approach to ripping the Band-Aid off early and being bold with declaring who you are what you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it.
You can imagine his music at high school career starting to bloom as a freshman able to make the marching band and start to experience the excitement of high school sports and being a part of the team the wins the losses and all of the energy that goes with it.
He was also listening to all sorts of popular music and even though he was playing the trumpet he must’ve gotten into a lot of pop music influenced by soul R&B, and obviously hip-hop because his dance moves and rhythm are simply off the charts.
And if you get into Drumline and competitive marching and band, which is a big thing nationwide here in the United States, there are big differences in the stylistic approaches between Caucasian and black Drumline and band organizations.
Culture and subcultures all come out clearly in performances like Drumlines and Marching Bands.
My man here TT clearly was not feeling the starch, stiff rigid approach to marching band that he might’ve seen from some of his White counterparts and instead wanted something with more opportunity for expression for performance and a higher energy level in terms of the movements and choreography.
We have no idea of knowing what the conversations were like with his parents, but you can imagine people in his community were not entirely accepting of his choices given how different and unique it would be for an extremely talented white musician to choose an historically black college, to be both his place of learning for higher education as well as where he would perform his musical talents that he had probably been working on for at least 10 years since he was a little kid.
This is leadership.
This is being true to yourself, listening to your higher self and trusting and something bigger than you to be able to have the faith to make tough decisions at a young age.
We can use the courage of other people as inspiration and motivation to do hard things ourselves.
I was just on the phone with my buddy Steve who I worked with in technology when we were both working in the connected technologies group through ClubCar and my company GPSI, and he was the first person I became friends with that I knew had quit alcohol and gone sober and still was selling and crushing it in the golf industry.
For some reason, I thought you had to drink to sell in the golf industry.
Turns out I was wrong.
I periodically thank Steve for being one of the inspirations for me even though he never talk to me about my own drinking, or we had any real conversations about it, but his example that I watched helped me see that it would be possible for me as well to still have a career, even though I wasn’t getting drunk regularly.
Other kids are going to see Tommy the Trumpeter doing his thing and making tough choices that are unconventional and perhaps have more courage to listen to their own higher selves and start to do some things that are based upon the information that they’re receiving directly and stop making decisions based upon the expectations of other people.
Making your decisions in life based upon what other people will think is like building a prison cell for yourself constructed from other people’s opinions and expectations that limit you from moving in an authentic and natural way.
What is the path to authenticity?
It starts with breath.
Literally.
Very few people are breathing in a healthy, consistent way through their nose, and not holding their breath and creating anxiety situations.
Start with breath and get grounded there and realize that your breath is the vehicle to both enjoy great thoughts and to let negative thoughts go, and as you connect with breath, you create the awareness of your own thoughts and thought patterns.
Awareness of thoughts is the beginning of building a practice of mindfulness.
You can understand that your thoughts are creating your moods, and you have control over your thoughts when you stay connected to your breath.
This is the cornerstone.
And we can help you.
In the short term, don’t be afraid to put on your headband and do your best Fortnite dance in between notes because you’re receiving the messages from your Creator and from Nature. You hear the instructions that this is YOUR life to live and you must express yourself, your creativity and everything inside you and blow your horn with an attitude of gratitude.
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