Crap Single

If you’re writing and releasing a crap single, you pray extra hard for steams and likes and shares to combat your internal embarrassment.

Streams and likes and shares of the song you know is crap allows you to falsely validate yourself “hey I make music for the fans”

But deep down you know the truth.

And deep down is what you’re left with at night when you go to bed.

***Write enough to get to the good stuff. Release enough to release the good stuff.

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Temporary Elevators

Lots of big building construction in Nashville right now.

On the sides each building are temporary elevators for all the construction workers and supplies.

But an elevator is a tremendous amount of work to build and install. Just think, the workers build an entire elevator so they can build the thing they really want to build.

The temporary elevator isn’t the point of the building. It was built out of necessity, and if everything goes according to plan, it will go away.

A temporary elevator is a tactical element as a part of a strategy for achieving the goal.

Tactics and strategy change and evolve on your path toward the goal.

Let them change. Build the elevator when you need to. Tear it down when you need to.

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Punching The Clock

Punching a time clock in and out of work fools you into thinking that the only path to more money is to make the display have higher numbers on it.

‘This machine tells me how much money I get, so I need to make the machine tell me a bigger number and the way that happens is if I’m in this place longer.’

The time clock narrows your vision and strong arms you into focusing on how long you can perform a function rather than the potency of your expertise, care, power, transformation and creativity.

So whether you punch a time clock or not, ditch the punch clock.

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Deserve. Earn. Give.

You deserve little to nothing. (This keeps you humble)

You can earn almost anything. (This keeps you ambitious)

You are free to give everything. (This transforms you)

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Having and Taking Opportunity

“If I had the opportunity to go to New York City, I would”

“If I had the opportunity to make an amazing sandwich, I would”

“If I had the opportunity to connect with the people who love my music, I would”

But these statements begin with a false premise, ‘If’.

These are not opportunities that you have or don’t have.

The only question is are you going to take them.

Anytime you venture down the road of ‘I would if I had the opportunity’, it’s important to step back and figure out if you already have the opportunity but you’re just not taking it right now.

You could be not taking it right now for many different reasons, but it’s important to differentiate between what you have and don’t have. What opportunities are there for the taking and which ones you have to build and wait for.

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When To Dismiss Criticism pt. 2

The other thing about criticism…

You don’t get to decide how the other person takes it.

You might hurt them.

You might hurt their feelings.

You might be invited in to give even more criticism.

If you’re going to give criticism, you have to be caring enough to let your care persist through and after your criticism…no matter how it’s taken.

If you don’t care enough to persistently care, skip the criticism to begin with.

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