The Best Way To Make More Money

A few months ago I wrote down the blog post idea…

“The best way to make more money is to help make someone else make more money.”

And then yesterday I read a section of a wonderful book I received as a gift with this metaphor…

It’s “WE’RE off to see the wizard”.

Not I. It’s not “I’m off to see the wizard”…it’s all of us together, similar path, goals and timeline but some specific, unique differences too.

So that’s what caused this post to happen tonight specifically.

If you can make more money for your manager, agent, PR rep, drummer, dare I say…your record label…it’s going to be good for you too.

The best way for Dorothy to get to Oz was to help other people get to Oz. 

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2017

2017 had nothing against you…and nothing for you.  2017 is a year and years can’t giveth or taketh away.

And we know this. Duh.

But all the sarcastic snark of ‘2017, why were you so bad to me’…yes, I know, it maybe a bit of a joke, but it serves as another subtle storyline that pushes responsibility away from us as opposed to bringing responsibility closer.

The successful people and artists we all look up to are the type of people who pull responsibility as close to themselves as possible.

They didn’t expect anything from the year 2017, they simply took action.

They don’t expect anything from the year 2018, they are simply, currently taking action.

2018 has nothing for us. But we have lots for the people we interact with and the world around us.

Pull responsibility close and take action now.

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Getting Down To It

Let’s get down to it.

It’s probably a great way to start the year, getting down to it.

We all have some things we’re very aware we need to get down to…despite the fear, anxiety, distractions, fluff, sidebars, pitstops, excuse 1, excuse 2, excuse 282390312.

Cut it all out. Get down to it. 

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Before Mass Culture

Right now today you can’t build a mass culture movement, or one that has lots of people or subscribers or customers. 

The only thing you can work on today and build is a micro culture. A very tiny specific culture. 

And as we all know, all mass culture movements (in music: rock n roll, disco, grunge, etc) start as micro. So micro, tiny, specific is worth working on…it’s the size of culture you must have first before mass can happen.

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Moon Walking In A Club

It wouldn’t have worked. 

Michael Jackson premiering his moon walk at The End in Nashville (or any other 250 cap room) wouldn’t have worked.

Because in small clubs, except for the first two rows, everyone can only see the act from the waist up.

Most of the people wouldn’t have been able to see his shoes!! 

And the white socks! 

And the way his legs move!

They would have just seen a gliding head and chest…never knowing what was really happening.

It would have been lost. 

Thank goodness he did on tv, with lots of cameras, with millions of people watching.

If no one is going to see your shoes and socks, don’t spend too much time picking them out.

If lots of people are going to see your shoes and socks, pick them purposely and do the moon walk (or your unique equivalent).

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Eight Days A Week: You’re not that busy

The Beatles: Eight Days A Week- The Touring Years came out last year but I watched it for the first time last night.

It streams on Hulu but you can rent it at all the other places…do what you need to do and watch it.

It’s frantic and slow at the same time.

But here’s one of the main things…

It’s not that you’re too busy, it’s that you don’t write enough…and thereby you’re songs aren’t good enough.

Beatlemania was happening and their release schedule was one single every three months and an album every six months.

Now in all caps.

BEATLEMANIA WAS HAPPENING AND THEIR RELEASE SCHEDULE WAS ONE SINGLE EVERY THREE MONTHS AND AN ALBUM EVERY SIX MONTHS.

Oh and by the way those (original) singles every three months were songs like Can’t Buy Me Love, All My Loving, Please Please Me, From Me To You…the list goes on.

And the albums (which for the most part DID NOT have the previous singles on them) were albums like Meet The Beatles, Hard Days Night, and Help.

I can’t stress this enough…they were experiencing the busiest schedule ever known to a band and never ever ever let the writing fall to the wayside…never didn’t make time for it.

They just loved writing (listen to Jerry Seinfeld on Howard Stern and Jerry tells his Paul McCartney story that ends with Paul saying “we just loved to write”)

Watch the documentary. There’s a million things to learn and remember…and the performance of the song Help is maybe the best I’ve ever heard them ‘live’.

Dive in. It’s all there.

(Here’s a link to the full discography and release schedule. It’s mind blowing. Now let’s get back to work.)

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