Attitude is Everything    -      Donna J Evans 5/11/18

I love old sayings, many of them are so right on and get immediately to the point with so few words.  In songwriting, they are called clichés and their use is frowned upon as outdated, outworn and unimaginative.  However, I do resort to them often as they are so to the point and convenient.  One that suits my reflection today is “Attitude is Everything”. 

I was emailing back and forth today with a seasoned Nashville musician who had had some early success there but has seen the industry change so much in recent years.  I could tell he was depressed and so adamant that songwriting had went to hell in a handbasket  and that was that.  He couldn’t be persuaded that anything good could ever happen in the future in the music industry.  And he still teaches songwriting, why?  So for him, he’s probably right as he argues for his limitations.  But what he doesn’t see is that everything always changes.  Life is changes every day.  The four seasons constantly change.  Life changes against all odds.  The only difference is your attitude and your beliefs.  If you are positive and open good things can and will come to you.  You probably keep at something much longer than the person who gives up and is convinced it’s over.  That the best is behind us and gone and nothing new or good is coming in the future.

I was just reading about an oil tycoon, George W Strake, in America from Texas who discovered the 3^rd largest oil reserve in this country during the Great Depression near Houston that every other “wildcatter” had given up on. This oil became the life blood of the allies during WWII and Strake made a fortune. 

If you listen to Donald Trump you will notice that he’s always positive and everything is always the best, the biggest and the greatest.  Many times he has been a winner and his attitude is everything.  You will notice against all odds he doesn’t give up but is always planning some way to win, to negotiate and make a deal.

So what do you get if you just throw your hands up and say “It’s over, nothing’s going to work out.  I’m not going to try anymore”.  What if George Washington had had that kind of attitude.  He had a small rag tag army but he won the Revolutionary War against the British.  What if he had not tried?  America would not have been the greatest country and the beacon of light to the world. 

The difference is the light and the power of the light versus darkness.

  

Darkness can be easy, just do nothing and you will fall into it.  You will accept it and be a slave to the ideology of it. This is a planet of duality and there’s a lot of evil here.  I’m not a particularly religious person, but I do believe in a divine power a light, a force that creates, that can make things happen if you are receptive and believe in it.  Many on the left today, unbeknown to them side with evil, with the darkness.  There is no God (or I would call it the divine power), therefore this is the only life they have which is pretty bleak at best.  They die and that’s it. So for those people, nothing can change their minds and no good can really happen for those who believe that way, because change would mean moving towards the light.

But change is happening for those of us who do believe in the power of light.  Old establishments are crumbling and evil is on the run.  Peace and prosperity is coming to America again and to the world against all odds.  The tide has turned and those who resist it are being swept away. 

So I told my Nashville friend that even the business model of the Nashville corporations filled with insiders who only work with and promote their own, closing out anyone on the outside, will be crumbling.  He didn’t believe me as in his mind I am someone far away who doesn’t have a clue about how the industry works.  He thinks I am wrong for thinking I could ever make any money with songwriting.  But I don’t have to live in Nashville or know the insides of the industry.  They are just like almost every other large corrupt corporation where the big wigs at the top skim off the profits, only promote their own within, or if there are fresh young talent pretty much rip them off.  Many of them are engaged in dark, evil activities (remember the @metoo crowd).  The same attitude of the liberals to Trump, underestimation of what’s really happening in the world and the cosmos. The energy and power of change has been ushered in with the election of President Donald Trump and all establishments will change.  The swamp will drain.  There will be prosperity and peace in the coming years.  A lot of evil and darkness is going away.  This whole change is not just Donald Trump, but it is a divine intervention that has moved and will not be stopped by anyone. 

Finally, being a very determined person who tries hard not to let the negativity of many people in the world get to me.  I don’t know if I will ever earn any money from my songwriting but why should I give up and not try?  I will leave it up to the divine force if something might happen.  I am not attached to fame or money.  I just need to do my work and not be attached to the outcome.  I’ll bet those Houston wildcatters were kicking themselves after Mr. Strake struck paydirt.  So for us people aware of the light and the change currently taking place, may the force be with us.