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So I'm going to start out by asking an what is your co statement? Well, I happen to bring it with me. That's a good that's a good sign. We work together pretty well here. So, um, what I'm creating is an environment where I can feel purposeful through helping others with my move management business, creating functional pottery, and enjoying activities with friends and family. And through that, I'm incorporating uh workrelated things, play related things, and social things. So, I've kind of merged all of that into one vision for the life that I want. And as you mentioned in an earlier conversation, it's like my personal vis vision statement for my life as compared to a company that has a vision statement for how they're going to function. Yeah. Exactly. And I think I like the way because I always say like being a chief dream officer, it's taking on it's a proactive approach to taking on your life, your work, and your world.
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And I think you incorporated all that in your in your CDO statement nicely. Thank you. Yeah. And and some people want to do a co statement for their life. They might want to do one for their work or their business or how they want to be philanthropic and impact the world. So people can use it in a lot of different ways. It's just an or it really is an organizing statement. Yep. And by having it all together, it's easier to find and to move forward with it because it's a statement that encompasses everything. Yeah. You know, I very efficient as I would think you would be because you're very organized. Okay. So you come up with your statement and we have my example and your example and then you move to creating goals and actions which I know you've done like one of the things that we do within the dream factories we have circles and that the workbook that I have has accountability in it.
But maybe that composer is here tonight and can maybe come up and say a few words about this [applause] for that way. Go that way. Go that way. Go that way. [music] Hi everyone. Uh my name is Bret the composer of this next piece, Ashl Woods. Uh Mr. Con asked me to tell you a little bit. That's my daughter. She's going to be so mad at me. Um, Mr. G ask me to tell you a little bit about this piece you're about to hear. Uh, but before I do that, is Michael Bogen still in the audience? We need to clap for him again. Well done, man. The heck of the world. [applause] [music] Congratulations. Uh I also want to before again before I talk about my own music I want to thank all of you for being here. I grew up in a really small town in Northern California.
So every month you would meet and how long were you in a circle? you were in one for several years, quite a long time. And it was, you know, we we supported each other with different um aspects of our lives. And we helped each other understand that sometimes if you had a month that you didn't meet your goals for the month, it was okay. And other times, uh there would be things you did that you didn't recognize were working towards your goals. And so it was just a way to support each other, encourage each other, and help each other meet our individual uh statements. Yeah. Yeah. And it's kind of nice to have a group of people like it is a lot about community that you have people that know what your statement is and can and know what your vision is and they are there to support you.
Uh in that I'm pretty sure the principal of my middle school and the principal of my high school didn't even know where the bandom was. actually showed up to a concert. Uh that was the so first of all thank you for being here. But of course as I mean I know I'm kind of preaching to the cho already know this. The Boston Symphony orchestra does not happen. Boston lyric opera does not happen. The metropolitan opera does not happen unless this happened first. Right? So, uh, I hope you all make it a point to come to every one of these concerts as I do with my family because if we don't support music education, who's going to? It is [applause] important. Ok so now the thing that he actually asked me to talk to you about uh Ash Woods um uh you I I assume many of you have been to the various town wood surrounding as right waren woodsom state the actual town forest uh this pie is about those places these are places that I like to take walks with my family is allting the back over there.
And if you meet on a regular basis, it's great for support and accountability. And it's a safe environment. Yeah. You know, so you could say things that you wouldn't tell anyone else, but you knew it stayed in the circle and everyone was very understanding and sharing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and and it's funny, one of the women in in your uh in your group, in your circle, Anna, um I was talking with her one time when she first joined the Dream Factory, and she was saying that uh she would go out with her friends, and it was always like everybody wanted to get away from the kids and go out with the friends. So, but what did they do when they went to their little gathering is they talk about their kids. And I mean, not that it's bad to talk about your kids. It's totally wonderful.
Hi. Uh and we like to take our lovable jerk of a bulldog named Louis on long walks through the forest. And so when thinking about what this piece was going to be, I figured, well, let's let's take a walk through the forest. Uh so the piece op with one very loud note and that is the car door opening. After that you hear this flurry of eight notes that kind of trip over themselves. That's Louis trying to drag us off into the forest. Um pretty quickly you start to find in the forest various landmarks that have become famous here in Ashland like the old bell that is abandoned in the forest. some place out that we have no idea how it got there but it is there. Uh there's lemon squeeze rock which is a very large rock with a huge crack down the middle that is just large enough for a rather small but deep person to work their way through that crack.
But I like where this kind of accountability circle has more of a focus. Like it's about you and it's about what you want to create and that you have a team of people or group of people or community of people who actually know what that is and can cheer you on as you move forward. Mhm. And I think it's important because uh a lot of people focus on helping others and don't take the time to help encourage themselves. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I would say I don't want to I don't want to just pick on women, but I would say women in general are very tied up in they have a lot to take care of. You know, in the sandwich generation, they could be taking care of their business. that could be taking care of their kids, their, you know, their nuclear family, and then their parents.
I do n't the witches caves on the other side of town. If you know the story behind the road Salem and Road you know all about the witches caves um and uh all of these landmarks are actually in this piece. You might ask how are they in this piece? For starters one of the melodies you will hear in the beginning in the flutes actually spells out the word b you can do that with music. And I I told this of course to the band and immediately they wanted to know all of the hidden codes in the and so they found the word dog they found Louis's name. Uh they found Mr. Coning's name that is in there. Ashl is in there. Clockers is in there. Shows up several times. Chapelle your name is in there. But the one of course I'm most proud of and the one for which I will receive the most brief later is the fact that the final uh melody that you're going to hear in this piece spells out C A E L I my daughter Kay who is now probably hunched behind her stand and just horrified embarrassment behind this as I say this.
So, it can get pretty overwhelming sometimes. So, it's nice to actually have some time where you think about yourself, what's important to you, and how do you move things forward, and what kind of support do you need to have that happen? That's kind of a good question to ask. Well, and that's where the goals come in. Yes. You know, you set up the goals and the corollary of setting up the goals is what support do you think you need in order to meet those goals? Yes. So, the statement points to the goals and then the goals point to the actions and then it also points to the support you need in order to stay accountable for what you say you want to do. Correct. It's funny how it all works. It's so organized. I love that. So I just want to say in terms of the goals.
Uh so that's what the piece is. Not just a piece that you know is named after our town. This is our town. What I've told these kids. They're not just playing a piece by a local composer. They're playing the musical embodied or a musical embod of themselves, of our home. Uh and when this piece hopefully is played elsewhere in the world, they will also be playing Ashland Woods. Not Framingham, not Nic, not Boston, Ashland. So that's a little bit about what you're going to hear in this piece. I do hope you enjoy it and I hope to see you in a content in the future. And with that, enjoy Ashl. [applause] Oh. [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] เ [music] й [music] [applause] Thank you again so [applause]
So we say smart goals which is pretty common in a lot of cases. Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound. And all that means is specific, you know, can't just be airy fury in general. It's got to be targeted at something. If you look at your statement, it pretty much lends itself like do you remember early on? I mean it's hard to say this but do you remember with your statement I mean that statement has passed the test of time wouldn't you say it's it's evolved over time and um I mean initially uh I had some other directions I was trying and it didn't work for me and then I tried something else and it didn't work for me and then I finally came up with a statement that kind of truly encompassed what I was aiming towards. Yeah. And once you have the statement, it really helps point you in a direction.
Yeah. And once you're pointed in a direction, things sometimes just fall into place or you kind of manifest that you want to go in that direction and uh it helps you focus and organize. Yes. Uh to to get you that 20 times a minute. Yeah. And um so again you know having the goals you know a lot of times people will say oh you know my goal is world peace. Well it's something that is lovely to aspire towards but how do you measure that? How do you take steps towards it? Can you as an individual create world peace or do you need a lot of other people helping? So um you know by having the sm requirements it takes it down to a level that you can impact. You know maybe you want to make sure that figure out a way that your family can survive for a week without any arguments and then you've kind of narrowed it down to something that's doable.
Uh, a lot of times when I'm working with people helping them sort through their lifetime of treasures, y uh, I tell I equate it to eating an elephant. If you look at your household of treasures, you're going to be like a deer in headlights, frozen going, "Oh my lord, I'm never going to get through all this. I can't. I won't. I don't." But if you take it one bite at a time. Yep. And don't look at the big picture beyond knowing where you want to go as an ultimate goal. You get there without realizing all the work that you've done to get there. Yes. Well, also too that um you know this might be a good way to look at this because you work with clients, right? I mean I I don't want to say right like I know you do. I'm not questioning that.
And so I would imagine they have a vision that by a certain time they want to create something or they want to have a smaller home of their dreams in a certain location or you know can you give me example of a vision one of your clients has. Um sometimes it's more of a requirement than a vision. Well but I I want you to play around with looking at it from a vision. And I get sometimes things come down certain ages, you got to do certain things. But if you're going to look at from as a vision like a purpose, a vision which is a dream, what could it look like? And and I do say to them in a perfect world, what are you looking to accomplish? And um you know, they will say that you know mostly they start off by saying I want everything in my big four-bedroom house to fit in my one-bedroom apartment.
Okay. Uh then we have conversations about the fact that no matter how big my shoe horn is, it's not going to fit it and decisions have to be made and we need to find the essence of what it is that's important. So, so it could be something like you know if they were going to do a co statement like their vision is to go from here to here. Yes. Right. So it could be in some way that their vision, you know, their co statement could be, I'm creating a livable small space that encompasses all the things that I treasure or the most important things that I treasure, something of that nature. Yeah. Yeah. And most of them that that in encompasses what it is they're trying to do. They're trying to uh live smaller. maintain the same essence of the home. Yeah. Yeah. And at the same time have it be more suitable for their future lifestyle and physical capabilities.
Yeah. Like I'm I'm creating a space that supports the future vision of what my lifestyle is becoming. Yes. Okay. So that's pretty simple, but that's it. So, if that's what they're doing, you can see that lends itself pretty well to some goals and actions. Like, give me an example of like when one of your clients comes up with that, how would they pick a goal and then what might be some actions that would fit underneath that? Well, I mean, we would start off with the goal of figuring out what furniture they would like to take and apply that to what furniture will fit in the existing space. Okay. So, it could be a goal to find fittable, desirable furniture. Mhm. Uh, another goal would be to uh adjust their mindset because a lot of times when they're moving, they're retiring from cooking, okay? They're moving to a location where meals are provided, okay?
But they'll still have a kitchen, okay? And so the mindset is think about the lifestyle you're going to have. Are you still going to have your entire family over for Thanksgiving in your one-bedroom apartment? Uh so when you apply the future lifestyle and change the mindset, then it becomes a little easier to figure out what kitchen items you can say goodbye to. Yeah. And what ones you need to hang on to. And this applies to whether it's your good china. Yeah. Your uh you know, eight sets of silverware, your pots and pans, everything. And so when you think about your lifestyle, the goal is to envision your future lifestyle and then properly anoint your home with the things you need for that lifestyle. Yeah. So that's so you can even see the visioning comes into it like it's really kind of an interesting puzzle that with what you do you just do that like you know how to do that and you might not think of all those elements but all those like it seems like that's the beginning part like that envisioning part is so that they can actually see I mean once they get over the upset of I've got to move or you know this is a bummer right like it's too bad uh or my kids want me to do this or whatever I'm sure there's a lot of different um upsets and concerns, but once it gets down to like, well, how let's envision the future of what it might look like and then from there it's a lot more helpful to get organized.