413: How to Elevate Your Consciousness with Music

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Self-improvement, Education, Business

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🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

I used to listen to music just for the sound. If I loved the beat, someone's voice, or a rhythm, that's all I needed. But over the last five years, I've started to care just as much about lyrics as the melodies—and it's made me much more grateful for the powerful messaging in conscious music.

My guest today is Rob Riccardo, who is literally one of my favorite musicians of all time! His lyrics uplift and inspire me. They have the power to elevate my consciousness and have helped me through life's most difficult moments, including my struggles with depression.

Rob is a deep, thoughtful, and enlightened individual. It was fascinating to get to talk with him, hear his journey, and learn more about the way he's approached music and life—especially as he's navigated the pandemic over the last two years.

You're going to walk away from this episode with a refreshed mindset around living in the present moment and accepting happiness into your life—even if reality is different than what you imagined!

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Rob shares his creative process and where the inspiration for his uplifting songs come from.
Why we all have so much more in common than we think we do.
How Rob rediscovered his love for music, after not playing for 5-years straight.
How to silence the voice in your head that tells you that your creative work isn't good enough and find the confidence to share your message.
Why the fantasy we imagine is almost always better than the reality when we arrive—and why nothing beats the present moment!
If you can't learn to be happy with what you have now, what makes you think that you'll know how to be happy with what you think you want in the future?
When we focus on things that are out of our control, we feel out of control. Find out what to do instead!
The power of setting goals without getting attached to the results.
How to navigate the challenges in your life with curiosity and an ever-shifting mindset.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.3	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.9	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.1	Ready?
0:29.5	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. This is your host, Hal Elrod, and today is a
0:43.0	treat. I am talking to one of my favorite musicians in the world of all time. The big statements
0:50.9	to make. There have been a lot of musicians in all of our lives. Rob Ricardo is one of my favorite.
0:56.0	In fact, you're going to hear me tell him that in the beginning of the conversation and I think
1:00.5	I fanboy a little bit as I think back to how I opened the interview. I think I was fanboying
1:04.6	a little bit, but you're going to hear from Rob about it so much more than music. It's really
1:11.1	he is to me a conscious musician at the highest level. His lyrics have impacted me in a transformative
1:18.6	way. You'll hear me tell him that he's like my life coach on one hand and my spiritual guru
1:24.6	on the other hand and his music has helped me through some of the most challenging times in my life.
1:29.6	But a year and a half ago when I was going through depression and then to this day they just
1:33.2	uplift me. They inspire me. They help to elevate my consciousness. They being his songs. And so
1:40.0	I really think you're going to enjoy today's episode. I enjoyed this conversation. I think you're
1:44.2	going to get a lot out of it and just hearing from Rob hearing his creative process and hearing how
1:50.3	the lyrics that he writes where they come from. Does he write him for us? The listener does he
1:55.1	write him for himself? It's really fascinating to hear an artist and also you'll hear his journey
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