You’ve Heard It All Before

Follow The Energy

If an idea, a style, a way of doing things attracts people more naturally, feed that fire.  Stop making it more difficult than it has to be.  You’re allowed to do something that’s making sense rather than doing something that’s incredibly difficult while trying to make sense of it.


Making Others’ Dreams

Tis’ true…if you help make enough other peoples’ dreams come true, yours are bound to be made too.  Usually the only way to find out what someone else’s hopes and dreams are is to ask them.


Your Followers Are Watching

The standards and values you set for yourself are more important than the ones you seek to enforce on your team.  If you’re the leader, the others are watching and learning.


Bigger Or Better

Bigger as in “how can my career get bigger” triggers thoughts of “what outside forces have to happen TO me”.  While “how can my career get better” triggers “what can I do”.


The Go-To Artist

You can’t be the go-to artist for everything, so stop expecting to be and stop hoping to be.  Better to work to be the go-to artist for something.

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Artist Adversity And Power

When you board the Artist train, adversity is certain…and most artists know what to do with adversity…push through it.  

So if all artists experiences adversity, and to a certain degree push through it…adversity and pushing through it can’t be the (main) measuring stick of what makes a great artist.

If you want to really test an artist to see if they’re great, to see if they have what it takes to shake the world…see what happens when the artist is given some power.

What do you do with the adversity given to you? Push through, or not push through (quit)

What will you do with the power given to you?

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Speed Up

If everything is going well and is under control, you’re not going fast enough. Speed up.

The edge is where you belong, it’s not the area to be avoided.

This is why artists who have been around for so long make such mediocre music.  Because when you’re young and everything is a hot mess and the only thing you’ve ever known is living on the edge, and you’re barely hanging on and you’re making great music…you dream of one day when it will be different…when everything, including your brain, can be thrown into autopilot and live the easy life.

So “going well and is under control” feels like victory, an arrival point.

But the point is to never arrive here.

If the wheels are a little shaky, the alignment is pulling, the windshield is cracked, and you’re in the fast lane…don’t slow down.

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Nightcap 9

You can’t imagine a new color.

We all have our own way we say absolutely nothing.

Yes, I’m looking at your face tattoo thinking, “Why did you get that face tattoo?”.

Does Paul McCartney scan the radio or the latest playlist and just think “they stole that from me…they ripped me off there…they copied my chorus on that one…I have one just like that from 50 years ago…I invented that sound…”?  He could. He could sue all of us.

In order to support either candidate you have to look past a great deal of hypocrisy, deceit, malice, dishonesty, unkindness, some more hypocrisy, lying, and narcissism.

Just like you’ll have to do in order to support me.

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You’re The Smart One

You’re the smart one.

You don’t succumb to the latest marketing and advertising. The other suckers do. 

You simply make good decisions based on truth.

You see through the smoke and bright lights, boil down the facts and then make your move.  Momma didn’t raise no fool.

You know the marketing game being thrown at you and, in turn, graciously glide through, obviously escaping all the dumb stuff, only subscribing to the best stuff.

After all, you are the smart one.

**Everyone believes themselves to be the smart one.

The key in your marketing and advertising is to simply affirm a certain group of people of this already existing belief they have about themselves.

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