Guru­Gane­sha Singh is my new role model, though I bet he has no idea that he is.  Why?  He seems to be fir­ing on all cylin­ders in mul­ti­ple areas of his life:

Phys­i­cal - He looks to be in great health. He stands for long hours dur­ing his con­certs and has the sta­mina to put on really great shows. Any­one who tells you that putting on a con­cert and singing your heart out for hours at a time doesn’t require energy and a level of phys­i­cal fit­ness has never done it.

Spir­i­tual — fol­lower of the Sikh reli­gion. (His awe­some gui­tar play­ing can be con­sid­ered a spir­i­tual pur­suit as well.) When I hear his voice, and watch him per­form, he seems to be con­nected to some­thing on a dif­fer­ent plane. It’s mag­i­cal to watch and lis­ten to him. I’ll get another chance on May 18th at 7:30pm in the Arti­sphere Spec­trum The­atre, Arling­ton, VA.  You can get more info on his Face­book Page or on the Spirit Voy­age Web Site.

Rela­tional — He has been mar­ried for 25 years and has two chil­dren, (read — solid home life) and is on stage with many well known spir­i­tual or new age musi­cians (read — has many, many friends). And it seems like he is always will­ing and able to assist many other artists as backup gui­tarist and has a few of his own albums. (read — is always will­ing to help oth­ers and have a good time).

Men­tal — my guess is that his yoga, med­i­ta­tion and gui­tar pur­suits keep him in pretty good shape mentally.

Finan­cial — Suc­cess­fully started and sub­se­quently sold a well known train­ing com­pany in Tech savvy North­ern Vir­ginia and then went on to start Spirit Voy­age Records, a record label and out­let for those who are spir­i­tu­ally con­nected to the devo­tional music and events that they cre­ate. His sales train­ing com­pany and the record label have offered him the lever­age to pur­sue other adven­tures that he desires to experience.

By the way, this is all just obser­va­tion on my part based on what I have read and heard.  I have never spo­ken to him about his life, his beliefs, his fam­ily or his busi­ness. Nor do I need need to — the man just exudes all this energy and it shows. (At least to me.) He exudes the peace and a con­gru­ence in all areas of his life that it just shows up for me. A direct result of liv­ing authen­ti­cally, no doubt. In short it seems to me that he is a man that has his sh*t together.

I have always been inter­ested in the har­mo­nious merg­ing of the busi­ness world with the spir­i­tual world, as well as the  inter­twin­ing of the gad­get and tech­nol­ogy world with spirit and nature. There is beauty, peace and amaz­ing syn­er­gies that can be observed and expe­ri­enced when the com­bi­na­tion of all of these things is expe­ri­enced together.  I believe that we can be spir­i­tu­ally “rich” (ful­filled)  while at the same time being spir­i­tu­ally con­nected to God, Allah, Source, or what­ever other label you want to use for that place where we all come from, and where we all return to. That place that always is, and always has been. That place where we are all one.

I own all of his albums, and have seen him per­form live and it is such a joy to see an incred­i­bly bright and shin­ing exam­ple of pos­si­bil­ity in this world. He has cho­sen to share his tal­ents with the world through his music and I am so grate­ful for this amaz­ing gift.

Peace & Blessings,

Shawn