If you find yourself up there, then you’ve been given the authority to get up there and be the lead singer…
By the venue
By the agent
By the manager
By the production staff
By the band
By the audience
You’ve been given authority by everyone involved. Everyone wants you there. All those people.
So what are you going to do with it?
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If you jump into the passenger seat of my car and we take a little road trip down to, say, Graceland, we’ll listen to music on our way.
After the road trip you’ll probably come to believe that I know all the words to all the songs. That makes me look pretty cool, pretty respected, pretty unique, pretty musical, an expert.
How does he do it? How does he know every word to every song? This is amazing!
I don’t. It’s just that I like listening to the songs I know the words to.
I don’t have to know all the words to all the songs, I just have to know enough to make you think the number is infinite. Then I get ALL the credit… “He knew the words to EVERY song”.
This is what most of us are doing in any field we’re in. Gaining enough knowledge, skills and reputation to cause people to think it’s endless. Of course we know it’s not endless.
But if someone thinks you know all the words to all the songs the best thing is to just keep singing along.
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I was landing in Chicago from my hometown of Nashville, maybe five hundred feet off the ground, maybe less.
And as I was looking out the window I saw a billboard for a lawn care company.
I like grass. I like lawn care. I like a good lawn care company. And I like a good sale.
But that billboard was not for me. Even though it was there to be seen and I did in fact see it, I consumed it, it wasn’t for me.
Although the lawn care billboard was easy to move on from, that kind of thing happens a lot these days.
Just because it’s there to be seen doesn’t mean it’s there for us (and even more, doesn’t mean we should go looking for it)
And if it pops out of nowhere and steals a little of our attention, that doesn’t mean we need to give it more.
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If someone traveled here from two hundred years ago and started learning about cell phones and asked you which one they should get…you wouldn’t make them start with a Motorola flip phone or a Nokia just because that’s what you started with.
No. You would direct them to the newest iPhone.
And they would be smart to listen to you. It would be silly for them to start at the beginning of cell phones.
When we find (trusted) people with the insight to bring us up to speed with a better method, insight, connection, it’s worth ditching the old one.
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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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