Good Things Come To Those Who Take Action

 

The key is not be invested in the outcome because we don't have power over that completely but we have the power to generate an opportunity, the power to generate a conversation. 

When we generate a conversation we generate communication and new information because we have no idea what the another person holds in their consciousness that when expressed could create a lead. It could also create a link to an opportunity to something that would be waiting, and would be a good thing, but the good thing is just waiting, what is waiting? 

How long can a good thing wait? 

A good thing could wait an eternity, a good thing could wait until your net lifetime. When we generate a connection to someone that has honesty, integrity and has heart all the sudden new worlds open up to us and we can generate the movement toward that. 

I think that then "good things come to those who wait" can only apply when we've done all the work around it. When we've done all the work around it then we can wait.. we can rest on the work that we've done and keep the channel open. 

By itself that I do not like that quote. I don't think that quote is a truth. It needs more distinction around it and i think you have to make a distinction. 

"Good things come to those who take action"

Why wait?

K

Why Wait?

Veins... through and through.

I always seem to worry about my music releases. I know it's because it's important to me but I have to try to calm myself down because I experience so much anxiety. I really do want people to like it. 

... but my stomach and my heart are too precious to get put through all that anxiety of that kind of living. 

Even though I still do get anxious it helps to not do everything RIGHT NOW and to have it all RIGHT NOW.

I don't do this to get rich or famous. I do it to be happy and to connect with something that makes me feel good about life. 

Life has also taken away so much from me so music is the only thing I feel like I do that connects me to something higher than myself. Something my Dad can still hear. Something I'm proud I can do really well. I don't want to lose that. No matter what. 

However, now I'm feeling more relaxed about things and accepting that what I've done so far really IS a success and I have really changed people's lives with my music. I forget the messages and the moments in my life people have told me so.

I remember once at a gig in West Hollywood for the Haiti Relief Fund I was singing 3 songs from my last album Dawn of Momentum, after the set this man asked if he could come back stage and talk with me. My manager let him through and he looked right at me and took my hand and started shaking it, with a big smile on his face. He said, "thank you so much for singing tonight. It really affected me. I could relate to what you were singing about. Your song Sunshine really toughed me. I'm an HIV patient and I really did start to give up hope but hearing your song transformed me. I don't feel so hopeless now."

I almost burst out crying.

It reminded me to connect to the source of the music. Not the business. Not all the fuss and all the hype. 

The creative process. 

I lost that for a while. But then I found that place of peace again. That taught me PATIENCE. I can't rush things but I can stay focussed and I stay true to what I feel is the best for me. Even if it means not having much right now. 

When you're in that place you have to know that it's perfect as it is and you're obviously getting just as much out of life as anyone else but just in a different way. Maybe an even better way?

Anyway, I want to do this and yes I would do anything for it too. So when the time is right it's all going to get done. What happens is what is supposed to.

Read my current Grammy Feature here: http://www.grammymuseum.org/joingive/membership/member-music

"Veins" Out this Sunday May 19th 2013 on iTunes www.krissearle.com 

Define What Makes You - Never Give Up

I've been in my head too much lately. Trying to fight my way out.

But instead of wallowing I'm just going to repeat this to myself (a friend sent me this) 

"You are right in seeking out the best life you can have. You are right to define what makes you happy and then pursue that. It is right and it is just. Letting go of your dreams to pursue comfort is not right, not right at all. Maybe when you are seventy. But you've still got some work to go and many miles before you sleep"

You know it's funny. Life. You've gotta laugh. I think after a certain amount of time we all start to just realize that's it's going to change and it's going to take you with it whether you like it or not and sometimes it's best just to roll with the punches. 

OR,

You can fight back.


I've seen myself deal with anxiety so badly that it's made me ill. I've watched my Father pass away and held some things back because, at the time I felt that that I shouldn't mention or it's the wrong timing. Wrong timing? That was the perfect time.

Too many times in the past have I kept my mouth shut then lost the chance to make a change.

I'm dying....
Just like all of you.
We're all dying.

SO what are you going to do about it?

What am I going to do about it?

I tell you what. I'm going to NOT give up. Ever. Wanna make that promise together?
I'm never giving up.

Today I was driving home and I was thinking about versions of my life that I could have right now. My life in the UK. My life here in the US. A life in Thailand, maybe somewhere else in America? I can choose anyone of these but I choose to stay in LA. I've fought with that decision for about a year now. Going back and forth with myself, in my head... it's a mess in there sometimes. It feels like a battle in my head.

Would my life be better back home? Does my music need more inspiration? Am I doing something wrong? 


Today I promised myself a few things..

TO NEVER GIVE UP (because without music and without creativity I might as well be dead)
TO LIVE "RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW"
ALWAYS BE HONEST (no matter how much it may hurt)
BELIEVE IN MY MESSAGE

I have a song in me, and it's not for sale on iTunes, it's my inner song, I'm starting to find it and it doesn't fit into a 3 minute melody. It's way bigger. 

www.krissearle.com

A gift for you... my "Veins"

You all mean so much to me. Seriously. If it weren't for you, the people who've supported me over the years I'm not sure where I would be. Maybe I would be a chef? Or a Fireman? But I chose to be a singer/songwriter because through music I feel I can show you how I heal myself by taking bad moments of my life and writing about them. Self healing. Through that I now see that you also get healed and that has made me a stronger writer, performer and person. So THANK YOU. I know I can't offer much more than the music I write but it's the one single most important thing to me. I've managed to pull myself through the darkest of times because of my ability to whittle it all down into around 3 minutes of melody. 

After my Dad passed away, it saved me. After my 8 year relationship break up it saved me. After a best friend's death, it saved me. I know it works. 

Recently I went through a hard break up for me. I think it was harder for me so what did I do? I wrote about it. What came of that was something way more important than I realized. 

The sound that resonated with me was not my electro sound, or my indie rock sound. It was my darker indie acoustic sound. There is something to be said about a lone guitar and your voice. It's so raw and so passionate. Just you and the song. 

My song "Veins" was born. After I completed the edits and found I had a full song my life turned around. I listened to the lyrics and I healed myself. Never will I go back to that same situation and get hurt by those circumstances, and most definitely not in that way.

So I was trying to think of something special for you, my wonderful supportive friends that continually get my emails and have supported my music for many years. It's a difficult decision for me to give away music because it's basically my livelihood, BUT I thought of something that I know you would like… right now, as of 3 days ago my album Dawn of Momentum, that came out at the end of last year has been re-released as Dawn of Momentum 2013 (Extended Bonus Version) with 4 added tracks, StarFire UK Single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QrmlHErQM, Cry To Dream (London Minimal Mix), Drifting Away:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVhFKfB4oqE and a special release by T.H.E Studio a venture I'm trying out with a very talented writer/producer in the UK called Amadeus9, an upcoming talent I found in my home town. I will be working more with him when I return to the UK in June. You can preview some of our tester tracks at http://www.krissearle.com on the songs page. All these newly added songs (apart from StarFire UK) feature the wonderful voice of Laura J Evanshttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Laura-J-Evans-Music/141812702503776 another incredible talent that is on the verge of breakout. I'm honored to be creating such great music with these people. 

SO. you can now pre-order (until April 2nd when it's released) Dawn Of Momentum 2013 (Extended Bonus Version) for $5.99, yep that's right, and if you do you will get my single "Veins" for FREE on May 19th when it's released, the same day I play The Viper Room - details and event coming very soon! This means now you are getting 16 tracks for $5.99! 

You can also just go to my brand new site and pre-order through there. I currently have all my published catalog up there (including songs in progress for you to see) for you to stream, news updates and past releases! 

www.krissearle.com 

OR Pre-Order here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dawn-momentum-bonus-extended/id624697268?ls=1

After PRE-ORDER it's available and downloaded to you April 2nd.

Here is the event on Facebook, please join, chat and share, I appreciate it :-D

https://www.facebook.com/events/322259527876394/

The Viper Room gig is on May 19th where my single VEINS will DEBUT!! Details coming VERY SOON…

REMEMBER,IF YOU PRE-ORDER NOW AND SEND ME THE CONFIRMATION I WILL SEND OU MY NEW SINGLE "VEINS" FOR FREE WHEN IT DROPS IN MAY!! 

Please rate, review and share!! 

I love you all and I thank you for all your support. Enjoy the new version of Dawn of Momentum!! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dawn-momentum-bonus-extended/id624697268?ls=1

Love K

XO

Everything is here! www.krissearle.com 

F**king my love away

So, I've had a little exploration and I've found my music self again. 

I remember when I used to play my darker indie acoustic style in London and a few people said, "Why don't you try something more light hearted, not so dark?" So I did. It was a good exploration.. but I've MISSED my darker side. It's not dark like "dooooom and gloom," it's just going to that place where a lot of people don't like to go. That's all. 

Now, after a lot of music exploration I've found that those people that pull apart a particular song and tell me that it's "too dark" haven’t dealt with their emotions connected to that subject in the song. They don't let themselves go there. So they can't deal with the songs meaning. SO... they want to change it. 

Well, this time around I'm going there and I'm not going to filter. I'm going to deliver what I've wanted to deliver for years... and I can't wait.

For the longest time I was afraid of what I saw in myself and my ability to write. I went to the places where I didn't want to go because they made me face what I wasn't wanting to face. So I refused to go there. Hence, the change in my music. After a crazy beginning of the year and some heavy life situations occurred I started to give myself more attention.

It's the difference between writing about "how I would like everything to be lovely and perfect and that it's going to be OK," to "I can't believe you betrayed me like that, now I'm fucking the love away that you left me with"

I began to love what I'd lost again. The true meaning of my style and my music. To make people go to that place they don't want to go to. The art of relations. Another human being relating to another.  A shared meaning in life. 

My vestibule is my message in my music. My heart beat. For a while it flatlined, now it's pumping like a trouper!
It's good to be back!

Listen to Cry To Dream (Acoustic) and Drifting Away Ft. Laura Evans at www.krissearle.com and you will start to see where I am heading.

Kris xo