Evan Charmichael made a video about how to improve our lives by analyzing Chris Martin's rules for success. And I must say this is my favorite video of all time. It has inspired me to grow as an individual. This man has such a wonderful spirit and a whole inspiration as a human being and musician. #foreverafan And to remind me all of his words in the video, I write again (quoting what he said :p) about the 10 rules for success by Chris Martin. 1. JUST GO FOR IT “Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more. Just go for it.” 2. EXPRESS YOUR TRUE SELF “The idea of Ghost Stories for me was how do you let the things that happened to you in the past – your ghost – how do you let them affect your present and your future? Because there was a time when I was feeling like they were going to drag me down and kind of ruin my life and the lives of those around me. And I was really lucky to met Sufi teacher who started to introduce me to the idea of if you sit with your experiences and the the things you’ve been through, they alchemize. At the time he said that I was like, I don’t really know what that means, but I trusted that is would work. And the more that I was learning about that, the more music just started flowing through. The way that we see the world, there’s no point in being anything than being completely open and honest.” 3. LIVE IN THE MOMENT “So I have that inspiration and then some other things in my life that just make me every time before we go up on stage, I really think about who’s showed up, how much the’ve been through to get there (the concert). And also for us at the moment, we took a break from touring on the last album we called it Ghost Stories, so we’re so excited to be there and we know that nothing lasts forever, so I think that we just really more than ever living in the moment and trying to appreciate the fact that for some people, it’s their first show and for some people, you know.” “We definitely went through a period about 10 years ago of feeling like, what are we doing, questioning everything and not really able to take in the joy of it. But slowly you keep going and you find great people who come in and hep you out and teach you things and I think the more that you let in, it’s very easy right now in social media to let in anything negative, whatever you do someone is going to slag it off online. So I made a decision, it’s easy to take in the bad stuff, so I’m going to really take in the good stuff and appreciate these people who have shown up and they want to sing our songs together and that’s great, I’m into it. It never gets old.” 4. ACCEPT CHALLENGES “How I am with the universe is trying to accept that everybody goes through many challenges everyday on whatever level and you can never compare you challenges to someone else’s. So even if you’re Bratt Pitt, if you’ve got a problem that day, then it’s a problem. It’s the same if you’re a dustman. So, it’s understanding that everyone goes through that, whether you’re a pop star or whatever. But accepting in that it’s all how you look at it in my opinion. That you can turn anything around. Let’s say, what’s your, the nice man over there who broke his wrist? So you bust your wrist up, now normally that would really bring you down for long time, but there might be some great blessing from it that you haven’t, maybe you get to be good with your left hand at something and then one day you play tennis against, I don’t know what it might be, but my relationship with the universe, you are really asking is that I trust that it is more positive that you might think.” 5. ALWAYS KEEP IMPROVING “We reached the stage where we was thought we can’t get much bigger so we have to try to get better. And it’s the whole thing of quality over quantity. We tough well, we need to practice a bit and improve. You know I was feeling bad because I’m sure there’s some 16 years old kids who say they like Coldplay and then took some abuse for it on the playground. So I had a feeling about 18 months ago, that I would really like to make them proud by trying to improve." 6. MANAGE THE NEGATIVITY "Because the only other options is to find the bad in everything and that just makes you feel awful. My answer to you is this, it’s partly because I saw that my kids are growing up in time where social media is so hyper-aggressive and so I felt like I have to set the example to them. You know what, people are going to say weird stuff about you, but just let it. Like Jay Z says, “just dirt off your shoulder.” It doesn’t mean anything. And so really in trying to help them out, it’s helped me out as a sort of bonus because in telling them, especially growing up now, you’re going to get a lot, especially if you’re going to put yourself out there on Instagram or whatever, you’re always going to get crazy stuff and just to understand that is isn’t real and it’s also okay. One thing to remember about if somebody doesn’t like your music, or doesn’t like your show, that’s totally okay. There’s so much choice in the world of entertainment that if you want to come to our concert, then you’re going to have the best time and I’m so grateful. But if you don’t, I really don’t mind, it’s okay. So I think once you let go of that megalomaniacal need to win everybody over, that’s a big relief.” 7. ALWAYS BE CREATING “I just love it, you know. I don’t know where they come from, so it’s always a surprise. And then for the example, recently because of Prince, I’ve been watching so much Prince stuff and he was obviously so monumentally talented, there’s also part of me that’s like, I have to work harder. So those three things combined the will to work, the normal passion for it and this sort of cathartic need to play music.” 8. STUDY SUCCESS “Any band is an influence because we look to them even how they operate as people and a band like The Clash. They’re just an influence. How did they get along together, they split up but then they wished that they didn’t split up, how do we avoid that, and so any group that is working together we’re interested in what their dynamic is ‘cause it’s always helpful.” 9. NURTURE TEAM CHEMISTRY “You know, anything great creatively, often comes from chemistry. Because sometimes people do things all on their own, you know you’ve got your JK Rowlings and stuff but, often when you’ve got people that can surprise each other creatively or just feel safe with each other, so that one of them can be the gregarious out there person, the other one anchors it down. I mean, that’s what bands are. And so anytime I spot that somewhere else, I’m always keen to say it like, hey, protect that thing that’s got you where you are. Because often it’s the people behind the lens that are just as important as the people in front.” 10. HAVE FUN “Something cheesy, always go cheesy for your first song."
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