If you suggest the idea AND you’re willing to go first, it changes the things.
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Going First
Making It Fun To Show Up
Synth patches and drum loops make it a lot more fun to show up for the writing session.
Coffee and donuts make it fun to show up too.
So does a good view or a well decorated studio.
Or an excited presence.
A warm spirit.
A deep soul.
What do you bring that makes it fun for the others to show up?
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Walking On Easy Street...
Doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve succeeded.
Not all happiness comes from things being easy.
More ease doesn’t necessarily lead to more ease.
It’s not going to always be easy. We got things like the moon landing and the climactic moment in Rudy from people acknowledging and seeking out the hard parts. By pushing through when no one knew if the pain would lead to the desired result.
Embrace the pain and difficulty. It’s a sign you’re on the right track.
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More Difficulty...
Doesn’t necessarily lead to a better result.
Not all pressure creates diamonds.
More suffering doesn’t necessarily lead to more reward.
Sometimes you just gotta let it be easy.
It doesn’t always have to be difficult. There’s going to be plenty of difficulty without you adding more of it because you think you’ve cracked the code to success.
When it comes easy let it be easy.
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Tracks Four, Five and Six
First Monday of the month, new Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple.
There’s a song on the playlist that has 50k plays and a song that has 14million. Listen down and see if you can guess before you check.
After doing this playlist for almost a year, here’s something I’ve discovered: tracks four, five and six are the hardest part of the playlist to get right. The opening three are the easiest (not easy, but easiest) and the final two tracks tend to often times reveal themselves. But four, five and six are tough.
So if you’re making a ten song record chances are you’ve got your opening few songs, but its the second few songs that will pull the listener through (or not) to the end of the album.
As always feel free to send me suggestions for next month.
And to view past months you can check out the archive on Spotify and Apple here and here.
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The Thrill: When It Was New
The jeans
The car
The song
The band
The idea
The relationship
When it’s new and exciting it’s a thrill. But then after a while, as the song goes ‘the thrill is gone’.
The thrill doesn’t last forever. It can’t.
When the thrill dies, a quieter and lasting type of interest is born out of it. A connection and value that comes as a byproduct of embracing the thrill but then letting it die (because that’s what thrills do), not trying to artificially keep up the excitement or abandoning the thing all together.
Committing to what is on the other side of the thrill is what brings about deeper life.
***Worth noting: It’s not about committing to every aspect of your life that is thrilling and seeing it through. That would be impossible. It’s about understanding the flow and process of thrill, commitment and fulfillment and having the courage to apply it.
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