That’s the way to roll out content.
That’s the way to connect in the culture.
You get to decide what regular means in your world…but it’s not an album every two years.
Music is the best thing you’ve got (even more foundational than videos and updates) and its simpler than ever to get it to your people. Released music is where everything swells from.
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Busy-ness, money, success, recognition cover a multitude of leaky pipes and bad wiring.
i.e. We’re getting what we want right now, ignore the shortfalls.
But as we know, leaky pipes and bad wiring get worse over time. It’s not fun to pause and fix them but it’s probably essential to the longevity of what you’re building.
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…doesn’t mean anyone is interested.
Just because it’s fun to sing it doesn’t mean it’s fun to hear it.
Just because you put all your blood sweat and tears in doesn’t mean anyone is going to buy it.
When we take a hobby outside of our bedroom, to make a career of it, we have to grow our focus from ‘me’ to ‘us’. Us is the connection, the timing, the culture, the extra.
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If you make it to the top of the mountain it will be because you made smart compromises in regards to your original vision.
Because we all know you don’t make it to the top of the mountain by yourself.
But more than trying to figure out ‘what compromises are you going to make’, I think it’s ‘who are you going to compromise along side of’ AND ‘which top of the mountain are you willing to compromise for’.
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Chances are the first time you wrote a song or a poem or a thank you card, you felt like doing it.
Once you’ve sat down and written ten times, sometimes you felt like it (like you did the first time) and sometimes maybe not quite as much but you did it anyway.
When you’ve written a hundred times, there really starts to be a wide range of ‘feeling like it’. Times when you were really pumped, sometimes not pumped at all, a lot of times somewhere in between.
Where you’re at on the scale of Feeling Like It begins to matter less and less as to whether or not you write.
When you’ve written a thousand times, the scale of Feeling Like It is pretty irrelevant. You’ve felt every point on the scale and written anyway. You’ve been there done that. You’ve shown up inspired and uninspired and gotten down to business in the face of how you feel.
So keep feeling like it or not feeling like it or somewhere in between, but keep going. Keep writing.
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I could see the golf course driving range out the window of where I was working.
(I am not a golfer. Uninterested. Although give me a putt-putt course with some weird light up clowns and windmills and I’m in.)
The golfers at the driving range weren’t talking to each other. They didn’t know each other, they weren’t friends but seemed pretty comfortable to all be on the driving range together.
Here’s the other thing…None of them were wearing cowboy hats. Come to think of it, no one was wearing black skinny jeans, moccasins, a three piece suit or a sweatshirt around their waste either.
No. Magically everyone was wearing almost the exact same thing.
They didn’t call each other beforehand to coordinate. They just showed up like that. Everyone just knew what to wear.
Why? How is this possible?
One of my absolute favorite phrases from a lovely guy, Seth Godin: People like us do stuff like this.
‘People like us do stuff like this’ is everywhere. We all participate and we all contribute.
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