New Year’s resolutions are a wonderful thing. We want to recognize what bothers us about ourselves, or perhaps only seems worth improving, and want to make an effort to change it. Many people find this change difficult or even impossible. There can be many reasons for this, perhaps you don’t want it enough? Or perhaps we are not trying hard enough? Is this lack of effort perhaps the problem that you want to change? Or is what you want to change not wrong at all, but just a characteristic of a wonderful individual who doesn’t need to change?
The answer to this question is not important, because of course it is individual for everyone and cannot be gleaned from a mass e-mail. So let me tell you about my resolution, which is not to change, but to have the courage to stay the same.
Last year, I started my career as a freelance musician. How I got to this point is still an absolute mystery to me. A mystery that I would like to shed some light on here with a few lines.
In the time before I became self-employed, I put a lot of effort into music and started, supervised and helped with many projects, giving many fellow musicians a hard time in the process. I wanted to make a career out of it so badly that even my friendship with my dear drummer colleague Mathäus suffered as a result. However, any form of success due to the stress I caused as a result failed to materialize.
I finally gave up. But not the music and not my passion. I gave up the reward for my work. I completely let go of the idea that what I was doing should bring any additional gain, apart from doing what I love to do. Suddenly the doing became very easy, things moved on and one morning, out of nowhere, I saw an ad from Rock4Kids, for whom I have now been working as a musician for a year. As if by magic, my path found me.
I got the wisdom to let go of the reward and lose myself in doing from the Baghavad Gita, where it says:
refute the fruits of your actions
This means exactly what I described above. Stop thinking about the reward that your work should bring and lose yourself in the work itself. This does not mean that you should say no to the reward, if it comes: great, if not: great too!
I would like to motivate myself to stay on this course, even with the new studio at Sechshauserstraße 26. Because it’s not easy to let go of it, especially if you look too deeply into your wallet. It takes courage and a bit of faith. But I think together we can create a place where magic happens.
I hope you have benefited from these words and wish you, dear reader, a wonderful 2026 and hope to welcome you to our studio soon.
The strength and wisdom to follow new paths can be found in stillness. And the easiest way to immerse yourself in stillness is with the help of yoga.
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