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Super Mario is my life coach

If you are looking for a life coach then look no further than the hero of computer games Super Mario. I’m serious and I’ll tell you why.

I am in Venezuela with my wife and my 8 month old twin children on my wife’s parents’ farm. The Internet connection is so slow that it is almost unusable. So for now I’ve put all the marketing of my album and the operation of my web portal in the background. This has been a blessing in disguise because it means that I just spent a lot of time with the babies, writing songs, and walking in the beautiful natural environment here in the Andes.

A few weeks ago, my sister-in-law’s boyfriend installed here a Nintendo 64 emulator on the laptop that allows you to play all the old Nintendo 64 games on your PC. He started playing “Super Mario 64”, at first I got mad at him, but inevitably I got caught and then got really hooked. At first I felt like I was wasting my time, that I should be doing something more constructive, but my wife even told me, “I’m glad you allow yourself to play video games.”

For those of you unfamiliar with Super Mario 64, it basically is. Mario enters a large castle and in the castle there are many doors. Doors lead to rooms or hallways leading to other rooms, etc. In the rooms there are paintings of various things and if Mario jumps into a painting he enters a “World”. There are snow worlds, lava worlds, mountain worlds, cloud worlds, and much more.

In each world you have to find the big yellow stars. Some stars are really easy to come by and literally fall into Super Mario’s lap. Some stars are really hard to come by, sometimes almost impossible until many tries and trying to get the star. There are usually around 5 or 6 stars in each “World”. When Super Mario has collected 30 stars, he can open a large door with a large yellow star that leads to other rooms and “worlds” and another large door that requires 50 stars to open. Go on and on until you get all the stars and go through all the doors towards your GOAL, which is to rescue your princess.

After playing Super Mario for a few days, I realized the incredible teachings of this game.

I thought about my goal, which is for my music to reach millions of people around the world and be a globally successful recording artist.

And then I thought if I only do one or two important things towards my goal each day, for example, submit an album for review, write a song, play a concert, and collect names for my mailing list, etc. Mario when he gets one of his big yellow stars. So if I only get 1, 2 or even 3 stars a day, very soon a door will open. Then if I go ahead and get even more stars, another door will open very soon. For some stars I will have to work hard, but some will be magically brought to me by synchronicity or “coincidence” or whatever you want to call it according to your beliefs. If I keep doing this and don’t give up, success is assured. I’m sure of reaching my goal just like Super Mario is sure of rescuing the princess if he goes ahead.

Answers to life and powerful revelations can sometimes be found in the most unlikely things! It seems that not all computer games are bad for our children.

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