Enforcer

Can you be your own enforcer?

The little things you know will make things better. Can you enforce them?

Saying hello, finishing something instead of Netflix, skipping fried food, leaving the house on time, reading the entire book, picking a release date and hitting it.

Sure, it’s fine if you don’t. No one is going to blame you.

But if you will enforce the changes and deadlines for yourself, when no one is watching, when no one is going to pat you on the back, and do it consistently…that is a skill that will change everything.

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What We Really Want To Hear

We don’t want to be told its good, or even great.

We think that is what we want but it’s not.

The only real satisfactory response when we show people what we made…

We want people to be in complete and utter awe, to fall off their chairs, to weep and hold us up as divine, their mortal bodies exhausted from such an enlightened creative presence.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Anything short of that is easily dismissible.

But just because it’s easy to dismiss anything short of that, doesn’t mean that you should.

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A Timely Cough

Play me your new song or new album.

What parts do you cough over as a distraction?

Make those parts better.

Then release it.

»» Or the reverse…If you play someone your song or album and you don’t have an urge to cough over any of it, you’ve probably got something pretty good.

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Working On Their Behalf

Writing a song you need you hear isn’t always the same as writing a writing a song they need to hear.

Just because a song is fun for you to play doesn’t necessarily mean it’s fun for them to listen to.

You being proud of your song doesn’t mean they’re going to feel cool about telling their friends about it.

But when everything does in fact overlap it’s pretty special.

And when you are consciously bringing out the best of yourself on behalf of your audience, then over time it will creep into your subconscious…so that even when you don’t think you’re working on their behalf you still are.

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Do The Work

You only realized you were doing great work after you started doing the work.

Starting precedes the realization.

So do the work.

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Music From Computers

New Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple

We’ve all see the behind the musics from decades past of bands and artists and musicians and singers all in the studio making music all together at the same time. We love the humanity and blood sweat and tears and the long hours of creativity that went into making those classic albums.

But these days a lot of music is made with computers and software. And it’s easy to think that it’s easy. That the difficulty, humanity, blood sweat and tears, and therefore the romanticism, is gone.

It isn’t.

If it was easy it would be easier to make and find great songs and easier to make this playlist each month.

Songs made on computers are still long hours of real, hard, risky work. It’s still creative people doing their best to deliver a song that connects. Sometimes hitting the mark…but often not hitting the mark and going back to the canvas.

The methods and tools are different but the desired result is equally elusive.


»» So each month there’s ten new songs on the playlist. But maybe you’re wondering, where do all the old playlists go??? Well, all of them can be found in the archive on Spotify and Apple.

Since there’s so many songs on those archive lists now, I’ll hit shuffle and let it play. Mmm, so good.

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