Real winners are confident to the point they don’t need to recite their win-loss record. They don’t spend any time convincing.
Understand the difference between feeling confident and having confidence. Feelings are fleeting. Having is knowing via uncovering and then growing.
If you build the ladder you own the ladder.
No one else can prop you up. It’s internal.
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What’s going to happen if I drive eight hours south?
GPS doesn’t know the future. It just knows that if you’re in Nashville and you keep driving south, then in 8 hours you’ll find yourself in the ocean. It knows this because this is what the path does for everyone who gets on it.
We, like GPS, don’t know the future either.
So more broadly…
What will happen when I take this path?
ie. Has this path taken people to my desired destination before?
If so it’s a lot more likely it can take you there too.
If not, you’re a thrasher and a trailblazer. Which requires a completely different mode of transportation.
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Fly dates are a good sign.
They had other options who didn’t require plane tickets. Cheaper options. Options closer to home. Options that are similar to you. But they didn’t want any of those.
They wanted you to fly across the country to do the thing you do.
Fly dates mean they don’t just want someone, they want you.
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Our plans consist of things which we want to have happen.
But often times things don’t go how we want them to happen.
So should we change our plans to include those things too so that our plans will be correct?
That’s silly. Of course not.
We plan from a place of hope. And hope helps us push through when the bridge starts getting shaky…even though the shaky bridge wasn’t part of the plan.
There’s no need to try and make plans that are more accurate to what will actually happen.
We need more plans that are carried out with commitment…despite things not going as planned.
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I’ve recorded to tape.
I’ve recorded to protools.
The main difference is not the sound. It’s the attitude.
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Everyones spring and summer tour numbers are the same. Zero.
No sold out shows or tours. No cool show photos from stage to post each night. No videos of the crowd singing along.
The live show playing field is (temporarily) leveled. There’s no leverage there at the moment.
So you get to do something else. Build leverage and status a different way.
Try something.
And it’s a great time to try something out of the ordinary. Your audience is extra gracious right now. They get it.
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