Good news is gradual.
Bad news is sudden.
That’s why bad news is news worthy: it’s fast, reactive and easily noticeable.
It’s also why it’s rare to find and artist who believes they’re doing well.
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There’s often a disconnect between artist and manager/agent when it comes to the level of success of a show or tour.
The artist is measuring connection, feelings, flow of the show, pats on the back, the amount of dancing and how many people they could see mouthing the words.
The manager and agent are measuring hard tickets, soft tickets, ticket splits, merch counts and the final dollar amounts at the end of the night.
It’s perfectly ok for each of these groups to be measuring different things (and they should be) but vital to recognize that different people on the same team are measuring different things and therefore at the end of the night may have completely different feelings about how the night went.
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Sending a space ship 119,450 miles above the Earth’s surface. That’s a long way. Quite an achievement. At one point n the 1960’s it would have been the marvel of modern technology. A true milestone. A wild, risky, crazy goal.
While this is true…119,450 miles is only half the distance to the moon.
There was never a goal of making it half way to the moon.
Artists often equate managing expectations with lowering them. Making the goal smaller so there’s less chance of failure and letdown and looking silly.
The good thing about the moon is what a clear goal it was. Everyone could see it and understand. We want to stand on that thing up there. So while getting half way was a necessary stepping stone, there was no confusion of what half way meant. Which was: we haven’t achieved the goal yet.
Half way isn’t the goal.
Don’t manage your goals and expectations by lessening them, manage them by making them more clear for everyone to see and understand.
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The details weren’t meant to be famous.
We’d all like to be known for the details, the little building blocks of brilliance that we see and remember so clearly as the difference makers.
You get famous because of the details, but probably aren’t going to be famous for the details.
We want people to celebrate our details. They mean so much to us. But consistently putting your brilliance into the details is what will cause that simple breakthrough that you become famous for.
***I’m not saying your details weren’t meant to be shared. Shared is different than famous.
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Every time I start a new tube of toothpaste I think there is no way I will ever use all of this.
The person who watches a football game and the person who watches that same football again are very different people.
Saying “It’ll be fun” helps it be fun.
The new thing seems to be to tell someone how little you get on Facebook just before you tell them about something you saw on Facebook.
The video on my iPhone is amazingly clear when talking with someone a thousand miles away, and yet security cameras remain blurry and bad at catching the bad guys.
For most of history there was no way to actually see yourself.
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There’s a saying in personal finance: you’re the boss of your budget until you’re done with it and then it becomes the boss of you.
Same thing with your songs.
So building a budget or a song, build wisely so later you have a good boss.
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