Bouncing Back

You have to be able to bounce back. To re-energize yourself and the troops.

It would be easy to keep going if you didn’t have to get good at bouncing back.

It’s hard to keep going because…

-you think these hard times might last forever

-the only way they’re not going to last forever is if you develop the skill of bouncing back

Bouncing back is different than simply going back to work or being a hard worker.

Bouncing back has to do with honesty, vision, belief, connection, leadership, care.

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Beat Up Hearts

Every artist has a beat up heart. Every artist struggles.

No artist I’ve ever talked to thinks they have it easy.

All the rejection. All stepping back up to the plate. All the playing new songs and not getting the reaction you hoped for. All the knowing you’re better than your bank account balance reflects. All the wounds, and all the keeping going.

If you’ve got a beat up heart you’re in good company. Every artist you know and every artist you look up to does too.

Onward we go.

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Starting Without The Instructions

If you start without the instructions (while the instructions are sitting right there) and you mess up…you look like an idiot.

If you start without instructions because there aren’t any instructions and you mess up…you’re off the hook since everyone agrees there should have been instructions.

If you start without instructions or with the instructions and someone comes along who has built the thing you’re wanting to build, it’s a good idea to listen.


Most of what we’re all building doesn’t have instructions.

So sometimes you’re going to look like an idiot.

People will always be willing to let you off the hook.

It’s worth listening to the people who have built what you’re building.


***A bit behind the curtain for those curious…

The only thing I had was for this post before today was the title. But it seemed like a good title in light of all the toys that have needed assembly in the last couple days.

So I pasted the title into Text Edit, figuring if I began the physical act of writing the first sentence, the rest would come.

It did.

Didn’t have instructions.

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Searching And Seeing

Finding what we’re looking for doesn’t have as much to do with becoming better at searching as it does becoming better at seeing.

The joy, contentment, peace and freedom we seek is being brought and shown to us. You don’t need to change where you’re looking in order to find it. 

(It’s why a life in the music business can be worth your time.)

It’s the very essence of this blog. It’s why I write it each day. Opening our eyes.

If we start seeing, we might start seeing a little more. And if we continue to see a little more, life continues getting richer.

I hope everyones holiday is deeply rich. Not from a stack of presents, but from the gift of seeing things in a new way.

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Someone To See

Someone wants to see us. We want to be seen. We want to see someone(s).

And when it all happens (especially this time of year…but also every other time of year) it’s worth acting like its all true instead of acting like it isn’t.

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Chewing Gum

No one gets together to chew gum.

And gum is ok with that. It’s what’s being chewed while the people get together to do something else.


I hear people all the time celebrating the fact that more music is being listened to than ever before. They’re probably right…and I think that’s wonderful. But, like chewing gum, more music is being listened to passively than ever before too.

The goal is to find (and build up) the people who listen on purpose, intently, excitedly…perhaps even while chewing gum.

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