Start With Action

The meeting is the most exciting part. It’s when you actually do the thing that everyone has their complicated opinions.

Start with action, not meetings. Most of what you would have talked about during the meeting will get discussed during all the little in-between moments anyway.

It’s so much easier to call a meeting than call to action. And in the moment calling the meeting feels a lot like action. It isn’t.

Be bold enough to not have meetings.

Be bold enough to have short meetings.

Be bold enough to take action in the face of wanting to call a meeting.

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Vulnerable Writing

Writing vulnerably is scary because you don’t know if it will be affirmed.

If you write about your marriage your best friends, if you name names and it isn’t a hit, now it’s just out there.

Because if you write a vulnerable song and no one cares, it feels like your vulnerability isn’t worth that much. And that really hurts.

It’s as though you told the world your secrets and the world yawned.

You’re willing to be vulnerable if it means you get to be famous for it.

But that’s not how it works. The vulnerability happens in the writing room, long before anyone is there to think you’re cool for being that honest.

Adele gets credit, money and fame for writing the vulnerable way she does. But what if you don’t get that much credit, money and fame? Because chances are you won’t. Are you still willing to lay it on the line? To write from the heart? To tell the truth?

I hope so.

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2362

That’s the number of ticket buying fans you need in Nashville to sell out the Ryman.

So there’s no need to try and get Nashville to fall in love with you. You only need about one tenth of one percent of Nashville metro to fall in love with you and buy a ticket.

This is great news. Because there’s lots of groups and combinations of 2362 people and you only need one of them.

It’s not to say that selling out the Ryman is easy. It’s to say that you don’t have to be famous to do it. It’s to say that if you know what you need in order to satisfy your dream, it’s more likely you’ll figure out how to build it.

It’s not dream smaller or bigger, but clearer.

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Excitement

A successful artist is one who has the rare ability to excite their team into action over and over again.

If your team isn’t working on your stuff, you won’t motivate them through complaining….you need to convince them through excitement that working on your stuff is the best choice.

Because if they see you as the best choice, why wouldn’t they work on your stuff?

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Nightcap 22

If you have an amazing after picture, then worse your before picture is the more valuable it is.

Cigarettes have never been more rebellious…it’s just perfectly clear now who you’re rebelling against.

I’ve heard many car alarms in my day, never seen a car thief.  

Both the regular walker and the anxious fast walker always seem to make it across the crosswalk safely.

It’s a good thing boogers don’t smell bad.

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Promises

There is no waiting list for giving your word and following through.

There’s no permission slips needed. No degree or certificate program required.

You can just go out there, make a promise and keep it. 

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