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    The Great Gordino Newsletter - Issue 333 - Mon 19th Sep 2005
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    Hi There,

    I hope everything is ok where you are.

    I promised last week that I would show you my new see-through
    purple guitar.
    I'm having so much fun with it, that it nearly outweighs my
    stress at seeing all the Christmas stuff in the shops already!
    Christmas Schmistmas!
    Ooh, I tell you, next time I may have to go shopping with my
    guitar in hand, just to keep sane.
    Yule Logs in the middle of September!!!!!
    I can feel a letter coming on.

    Also, I had a bit of an incident with my plectrum, those little
    plastic things you whack the strings with.
    I had been practising, and decided it was time for a cup of tea.
    5 minutes later, I walked back into the room, and the plectrum
    had gone!
    Totally disappeared.
    I looked high and low but it was nowhere to be seen.
    I swear it has gone into an alternative universe.
    In another time and place, a different version of me will be
    walking along, minding his (or should that be 'MY'?) own
    business, when I'll suddenly spot a plectrum on the ground in
    front of me.
    'What a result!' I'll say, 'A free plectrum!'
    Hmm, I wonder if that version of me has any better luck with
    women...

    So anyway, here are 2 pics.
    I took them just as I unwrapped it, and there was a shaft on
    sunlight beaming into the room, it was just gagging to be
    snapped.
    I hope these pictures capture how purple and see-through it is.
    Guitar 1
    Guitar 2

    I reckon next week it will get its' first public outing.

    The second series of The X Factor is currently airing on TV here.
    It's basically Pop Idol with another name.
    I can't say I'm a big fan.

    Someone I used to know, and who could really sing, told me
    they had several rounds of auditions before they get to the TV
    stage, so although it seems as if you can just turn up, that's far
    from true.
    That being the case, I don't think it's right to show people who
    obviously don't have any talent.
    Obvious that is to anyone else but themselves.
    They then get ripped apart by the judges.

    Is that good television, to have people's dreams shattered in
    public?
    Yes, they may be misguided, and yes, they may have no career
    in the music industry, but it strikes me as unnecessary
    voyeurism to make a tv show from it.

    I was struck my one contestant in an early show.
    She couldn't sing at all, and was told so by the judges, not
    particularly harshly either.

    Then she started crying, saying it was her life, and all she had.
    Then her mother came in, and went on her knees to beg the
    judges.
    They didn't change their mind, and then the mother told them
    that they had ruined her life, taken away her future, that they
    were responsible.

    'No', I shouted at the TV, (can't understand why I live on my
    own), 'No, no, no, and an extra 'no' for good measure!'

    She is a girl that needs to read my book, link below, particularly
    the chapter called 'I'm Not Responsible - You Are!'

    The judges on a television talent show are not responsible for
    whether she has a career in music.
    They may well decide which path she follows or not, but it is up
    to her.

    The responsibility is hers, not theirs.
    If she wants a career that badly, and will do anything to get it,
    (something which all the auditionees claim), then one audition
    rejection should spur her on.

    She'll go out and sing as much as she can, get herself known,
    pay for lessons if needed, make the sacrifices needed.
    If she isn't prepared to do that, it's not too hard to see where
    the responsibility really lies, is it?

    How many pop stars relied on talent shows to make them
    successful?
    A small few.
    All the others took responsibility, and got down to some good
    old fashioned hard work, without a guarantee of success.

    Taking responsibility for your own actions and consequences is a
    cornerstone in my methods of self improvement, goal
    achievement and wealth creation.

    OK, that's it for today, and here's a thought - are there any
    areas of your life where you try to palm responsibility to
    someone else?

    'Til Next Time,
    Health and Happiness,
    Gordon
    email me at gordon@gordonbryan.com - you'll have to copy and paste
    thanks to the idiot online spammers!



    
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