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Oct 13, 2026
We tend to experience our feelings one at a time: happy or sad, hopeful or afraid, grateful or angry, coping or ... not. It seems simple and obvious. But life has an inconvenient habit of refusing to organize itself quite so neatly.
Sometimes we can be enormously grateful for what we have and still grieve what we have lost. We can receive good news and still be frightened. We can know how fortunate we are and still find something incredibly hard. We can laugh until our sides hurt in the middle of a time we would never have chosen for ourselves.
One feeling does not necessarily cancel out the other, and yet, sometimes we behave as though it should. We tell ourselves we shouldn’t be upset because someone else has it worse. We feel guilty for enjoying ourselves when something difficult is happening, or for struggling when there is so much we know we should be grateful for.
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Oct 5, 2026
“Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside us.”
– Oliver Wendell HolmesThose words stopped Scott Hilton-Clarke in his tracks.
Holmes wasn’t talking about songs or melodies. He was pointing to our very essence — the unique greatness only we can bring. For Scott, the quote struck at a truth he had felt for years: despite outward success, something was missing. He wasn’t yet expressing his Music.
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Sep 28, 2026
Have you ever heard someone say something and felt an almost immediate response: Yes. That.Perhaps they put words to something you had been thinking but hadn’t quite been able to articulate. Maybe you encountered an idea that made you curious, heard a piece of music that moved you unexpectedly or watched someone doing something and thought, for reasons you couldn’t entirely explain, I’d like to do that.
Something resonated.
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Sep 21, 2026
I like knowing that there is a right answer and all I have to do is find it.There’s something comforting about certainty. If I can gather enough information, ask enough people and think hard enough, surely I’ll eventually arrive at the answer. No mistakes.
Except life has an irritating habit of not working that way.
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Sep 15, 2026
I’ve received some wonderful advice in my life. I’ve also received quite a lot I didn’t ask for. I suspect most of us have.
People tell us what worked for them, what they wish they had done differently and what they think we should do next. We read books, listen to podcasts, seek out experts and talk to people whose judgment we trust. Sometimes a single piece of advice changes the way we see something completely.
That’s one of the great advantages of not having to figure everything out for ourselves. Other people know things we don’t know. They have experiences we haven’t had, expertise we haven’t developed and perspectives we simply cannot see from where we’re standing. Listening to them can save us time, help us avoid mistakes and introduce us to possibilities we might never have considered. So I’m a great believer in listening.
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Sep 8, 2026
I have a confession to make. I like a good formula. Frameworks make me feel safe.
Tell me there are five steps to doing something better, and I’ll probably want to know what they are. Give me a checklist, a tried-and-tested approach or, even better, the one thing that will change everything, and you have my attention. You would think we’d know better by now. We’ve all heard that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Yet there’s something very appealing about the idea that someone has found the answer and, if we just follow the instructions, we can get the same result.
Sometimes we can. A good framework can be enormously useful, and someone else’s experience can save us years of trial and error. We can follow the exercise program and feel stronger, change the way we eat and have more energy, or adopt a new approach to work and wonder how we ever managed without it.
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Aug 31, 2026
Have you noticed how often you see the words “For You”?They’re there when we open social media, choose something to watch or look for something new to listen to. We barely notice them anymore. We simply start scrolling through what has been selected, suggested or recommended “for us”.
To be fair, some of those recommendations are remarkably good. I’ve discovered books, programs, people and ideas I might never have found on my own. Sometimes it feels as though whoever, or whatever, is doing the recommending knows me rather well.
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Find Your Music Team
Aug 24, 2026
Fair question.
When people first hear the name Find Your Music, they often assume it has something to do with musical ability or creativity. (Or more often than not, finding great options for their playlist!)
For us, Music is a metaphor for your true identity. Not the labels we collect throughout life, or a personality type, or a list of strengths. Something much richer than that.
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Aug 17, 2026
"Know yourself." It's advice that's been around for thousands of years. It sounds simple enough, almost obvious. Yet if it were that easy, wouldn't we all know exactly who we are by now?
The truth is, we're remarkably good at observing other people, but not nearly as good at seeing ourselves. We notice patterns in our friends, colleagues and family members and can often predict how they'll respond, what motivates them and where they shine. But when it comes to ourselves, the picture is far less clear.
That's not because we're lacking in self-awareness or haven't tried hard enough. It's simply because we're too close to ourselves.
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Aug 10, 2026
We're encouraged to "become" almost from the moment we begin to understand the world: become successful, confident, a leader. Become your best self.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to grow; growth is part of being human. But sometimes, in all our striving to become someone, we lose sight of the person who's already here.
Perhaps identity has never been about becoming someone else, but rather being more fully yourself. How about that for a different lens?
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Aug 3, 2026
Imagine you're meeting someone for the first time. They ask you to tell them a little about yourself. How do you answer?For most of us, the response comes quite naturally. We talk about what we do for a living. We mention our family, where we live, or perhaps a role that's important to us. We say we're a teacher, a business owner, a parent, or recently retired. These are the details we've become accustomed to sharing because they're familiar, they're easy, and they help other people place us.
There's nothing wrong with that. Labels are useful because they help us navigate the world and make sense of one another. The trouble begins when we mistake those labels for who we are.
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Jul 27, 2026
Comfort is one of life's great gifts. It brings a sense of stability, familiarity and peace that many of us spend years working towards. There is nothing wrong with enjoying that. In many ways, comfort is one of the rewards of a life well lived.
The challenge is that comfort rarely asks anything of us. It doesn't ask us to question ourselves or to wonder whether we're still growing. It doesn't encourage us to revisit old assumptions or notice how we've changed. It simply invites us to settle into what has become familiar, and because it feels so reassuring, we rarely think to question it.
Perhaps that's why curiosity matters so much. Curiosity doesn't demand that we abandon the lives we've built or chase change for its own sake. It simply keeps us open. It reminds us that growth doesn't stop because we've become comfortable, and that the person we are becoming may not be exactly the same as the person we once were.
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Jul 20, 2026
Most of us have said something like, "That's just the way I am." Sometimes we say it with confidence. Sometimes with resignation. Over time, those words begin to feel less like an observation and more like a fact.The stories we tell ourselves about who we are often begin long before we realise it. Some are shaped by people who knew us as children. Others by a teacher's comment, an early success, a disappointment, or a role we found ourselves playing for so long that it became part of our identity. Before long, we stop seeing them as stories at all. We simply accept them as who we are.
There is nothing wrong with knowing yourself. In fact, self-awareness is one of the greatest gifts we can develop. The challenge comes when we mistake an old version of ourselves for the person we are still becoming. We continue making decisions through a lens that may no longer reflect who we are today.
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Jul 13, 2026
How do you know if you’re doing well?
Many people look for the answer in successful careers, qualifications, and impressive titles. Some look at the size of a home or income, or milestones reached. Sometimes we measure ourselves against family members, friends, or colleagues. And more and more we are measuring ourselves against people we’ve never even met.
None of those things are inherently wrong and sometimes they can be useful measures of progress. The question is whether they’re the only measures we ever use.
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Find Your Music Team
Jul 6, 2026
Whose Future Have You Been Living?
When we're young, people ask us what we want to be when we grow up. There's usually a prescribed range of answers: doctor. lawyer, teacher, accountant. The question sounds innocent enough, but hidden inside that question is a problem. What if none of those answers were ever really yours?
Most of the time it comes from people who love us and genuinely want the best for us. They want us to have a life that is safe and secure - at least what secure looks like to them. Before we know ourselves, we begin learning what success is supposed to look like. Expectations of families, schools, communities, and now with social media, the world at large, surround us. Slowly, almost without noticing, we begin measuring ourselves against a picture that somebody else painted.
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Find Your Music Team
Jun 29, 2026
Where There's Signal, There's StaticOnce you've spent the time identifying your Notes, it seems like the next step should be obvious. Just play them.
If only it were that easy.
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Find Your Music Team
Jun 22, 2026
The Arrangement
So what’s next? A random collection of Notes does not a body of work make.
After you’ve spent some time looking at your Notes (wherever they came from) and trying them on for fit, the big question becomes: what do you do with them?
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Find Your Music Team
Jun 15, 2026
Trying On NotesNot every Note that belongs to you will feel like yours straight away.
Some will. The moment someone names a quality in you, or you recognize something inherited that genuinely fits, there’s a quiet click of recognition. You know it’s yours because it already feels familiar, like something you’ve been carrying without a name for it.
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Jun 8, 2026
The Notes You Were Given
Some of the Notes that shape us were there long before we knew how to name them.
Some are natural, of course, you were just born with them. Some arrived before you had a say.
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Find Your Music Team
Jun 1, 2026
Notes Others See In You
There is a version of you that other people know better than you do.
The one that shows up without your permission – without your even trying.
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May 25, 2026
Bring What’s Yours
“What’s next?” isn’t a question you answer once. It shows up again in different forms, at different stages, asking you to move forward without having the full picture.
Most of us are taught to meet these moments by looking outward. To gather information, explore options, and find the answer that makes the most sense before taking a step. But there’s a new paradigm.
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May 18, 2026
“What’s Next” Is Not a One-Time EventIt’s easy to think of “what’s next?” moments as one-offs - a graduation, a shift at home, a change that feels specific to a particular time in life. But if you look back, you’ve likely been here before.
Not in exactly the same way, but at a point where something that once gave your days shape no longer did. Where the path ahead wasn’t as clearly defined as the one behind you.
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Find Your Music Team
May 11, 2026
When the Role Changes
The moment arrives, usually with fanfare. A graduation, a retirement, a final day - there's a ceremony, a photo, a moment when everyone acknowledges that something has shifted.
The days that follow, that's when the real transition takes place.
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May 4, 2026
At some point, every life arrives at this question.
Sometimes it’s obvious - a graduation, a role ending, a child leaving home - moments where the shape of your days changes all at once. Other times it’s quieter. Nothing has formally ended, but something no longer fits the same way, and you feel it before you can explain it.
Either way, the question shows up: What’s next?
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Find Your Music Team
Apr 27, 2026
Keep Playing
Not every Note lands the way you hoped.
Some weeks you show up for yourself and nothing shifts. The day continues. The same responsibilities, the same weight, the same version of everyday you've had a hundred times before. You gave yourself something honest and it didn't seem to change a thing.
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Apr 20, 2026
We live in a world of influencers, imitation, and carefully curated versions of other people's lives. It has never been harder to know what is real. And it has never been more tempting to be carried by the wave; to follow, to copy, to become a version of someone else's vision of success.Which is exactly why what you choose matters more than you might think.
In the middle of all that noise, taking the time to be true to yourself is not a small thing. It's a quiet act of courage. Making space for one honest Note, something that comes from your talents, your passions, your particular way of seeing and doing, is how you stay anchored when everything around you is pulling in a different direction.
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Apr 13, 2026
Most of us spend more waking hours at work than anywhere else. And for a lot of people, that's where they feel least like themselves.
Not because the work is wrong, necessarily. But because the role asks for a specific version of you; the capable one, the reliable one, the one who gets things done. Over time, that version can start to feel like the only one.
So when you begin playing a Note outside of work, something tends to shift inside it. Not because you changed your job. Because you changed your relationship with yourself.
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Apr 6, 2026
Something curious happens when you start playing a Note again. The people around you often notice before you do.Not because you told them. Not because anything obvious has changed. But because the way you show up has shifted, and the people closest to you tend to be the first to feel it.
Here's the simple truth behind it: when we're depleted, there's less of us to give. You can't run on a deficit indefinitely. We show up physically but not fully. Present in the room but not really there.
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Apr 2, 2026
You may not be able to name it right away.Nothing about your life has really changed. The same responsibilities are waiting. The same calendar. The same people. And yet something feels slightly different.
Maybe it's a bit more patience in a moment that would normally frustrate you. Maybe you just feel a little more like yourself.
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Find Your Music Team
Mar 23, 2026
You don't have to wait until you've figured it all out.
You don't need a perfect plan, a clear next step, or a full picture of what your Music looks like. You can start before any of that. In fact, most people do.
Because here's what's true: the playing is the finding.
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Mar 16, 2026
Life is a series of choices. Sometimes that includes going down a path where you didn't feel you had a choice at all.You may have chosen a career that made sense at the time, but not so much anymore. You may have had a family commitment you could not ignore. Maybe a role grew around you so gradually you didn't notice how much of yourself you'd organised to accommodate it.
None of this is wrong. In fact, a lot of it is good. Whether you chose it with your whole heart or found yourself carried by circumstances, the reality is the same - in the middle of it all, a few of your Notes probably got misplaced.
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Mar 16, 2026
When was the last time you felt most like yourself?Not most productive. Not most accomplished. Not most needed.
Just most you.
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Find Your Music Team
Dec 3, 2025
In Music, the Rest is a note in itself. Without it, there’s no rhythm. No shape. No space for the Music to rise with power and clarity.
Life is the same. December can feel like a crescendo — louder, faster, more demanding by the day. Parties. Deadlines. Lists. Obligations. Noise everywhere.
But your Music doesn’t have to be constant sound. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is pause and rest. Rest is not a lack of energy or stamina — it’s an intentional, built-in pause that shapes our living.
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Nov 20, 2025
The greatest gift you can give isn’t a thing at all. It’s possibility.
Not a trinket, not a sweater — but a shift. The chance to see beyond doubt, beyond feeling stuck, beyond the weight of “not enough.”
When someone you love is struggling, no gadget can set them free. But possibility can. It reminds them that they matter. That they still have dreams worth chasing, strengths worth using, Music worth playing.
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Nov 11, 2025
Starting to live your Music doesn’t always mean turning your career upside down or finding the perfect platform. Your Music — that distinct composition of talents, passions, and unique qualities — isn’t confined to one space. It can be expressed in many places, often in ways you least expect.Maybe it’s how you show up for your family, the way you listen to a friend, or the energy you bring to a community project. Perhaps it’s in a quiet practice just for yourself — journaling, creating, experimenting — with no audience at all.
Every time you play even a few Notes, the world is richer for it. And you’re fuller, too. Because the point isn’t only to be heard by others — it’s to stay in tune with yourself.
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Nov 11, 2025
Finding your Music is a lot like hitting your favorite song on the radio. At first there might be static, other stations bleeding through, or uncertainty about where to land. But when the signal locks in and the melody fills the room, something shifts — you know you’ve found what was meant for you.Your Music works the same way. Beneath the distractions, expectations, and doubts, your Music — the distinct composition of your talents, passions, and unique qualities — is always playing. The challenge is learning how to tune in to it.
And here’s the truth: you don’t have to get it perfect the first time. Tuning in is a process. Some days the signal feels strong and clear. Other days it takes small shifts, patient adjustments, and trust that your station is there — waiting for you to find it again.
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Nov 6, 2025
At different points in life, the same questions return in new ways:
As we start off, we wonder: Will I matter? And where?
Somewhere along the way we ask: Do I matter? Does what I am doing now even count?
And later in life, we can’t help but reflect: Did I matter at all?These questions are universal. And the answer to them is found in your Music.
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Oct 31, 2025
All of Western music — every symphony, every jazz riff, every chart-topping hit — comes from just 12 notes.
The magic isn’t in the notes themselves. It’s in the way they’re combined, arranged, and expressed. From a few simple building blocks, endless variations are possible.
People are no different.
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Oct 30, 2025
“Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Those words stopped Scott Hilton-Clarke in his tracks.
Holmes wasn’t talking about songs or melodies. He was pointing to our very essence — the unique greatness only we can bring. For Scott, the quote struck at a truth he had felt for years: despite outward success, something was missing. He wasn’t yet expressing his Music.
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