You don’t get paid for how good you are.
You get paid for how many people want to pay you for how good they think you are.
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It very well might be the case that while you say…
‘I’m doing this because I love it and for the growth and satisfaction I personally get out of it’
What you really mean is…
‘I’m doing this because I love it and for the growth and satisfaction I personally get out of it FOR NOW…but if I don’t see some money and attention and pats on the back after a certain amount of time then I don’t really want to do it anymore’
Both are ok. But it’s really important that you’re honest with yourself about which one it is, and pursue accordingly.
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When you have peoples’ attention you have to deliver.
You get good at delivering by practicing delivering…by delivering when you have only a very few peoples’ attention.
Delivering comes from not only having the ideas, but executing them. Having ideas and executing ideas are two different muscles.
If you don’t have practice executing ideas you’re going to have a hard time delivering.
Try new things. Try some things that won’t work. Stretch. Push your comfort for taking action on ideas.
Attention is a precious gift. You need to deliver.
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It’s hard because most of the time no one is clapping.
But then when people start clapping a lot, it’s hard because the clapping never really gives us what we thought it would.
Clapping is great. But it’s often mis-defined and therefore misinterpreted.
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This happens a lot…
Tech companies get a decent idea for an app, hustle it through the development process, release it, and then pump the marketing dollars behind it.
But here’s the switch…
Instead of pumping the marketing dollars into it at the end, give the marketing budget to the development team and let them build a better app…then they won’t need as many marketing dollars at the end.
Same goes for you.
Put your money (not just your time) into development. Your songs. Your writing. Your co-writes. Your mixing and mastering.
You’ll still need marketing dollars at the end of the process. But when you spend the money developing the songs and then the powers that be hear your songs and instantly want to open the doors for you…
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I can’t say I go to the Japanese Steakhouse very often, but when I do you better believe I want to see that onion volcano.
Even though I’ve seen the onion volcano before, I want to see it again.
It’s not as astonishing as the first time I saw it, but I want to see it again.
It’s not that if they didn’t do the onion volcano that the food wouldn’t taste as good…I just like seeing the volcano.
And when I see the onion volcano there is a little tiny part of me that is more fulfilled with the experience…which DOES make the food better doesn’t it?
The onion volcano is foundational, defining, pillar content for the Japanese Steakhouse.
They do it every time even when they’re tired of doing it.
It doesn’t make the food better, except that it does make the food better.
Just like that weekly social media post, or that phrase you say to open your show, or that extra thing you put with your autograph, or the way the guitar player plays the solo behind his head at the end of that one song.
Even though we’ve seen it before we want to see it again. It helps us remember what makes you, you. We know it’s coming and that’s part of the satisfaction.
If I’m going to a Japanese Steakhouse I’m hoping they’ll do the onion volcano again.
When your fans interact with you on social media or at a live show, what are they hoping you’ll do again?
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