Nightcap 27

It’s hard to look cool when the sun’s in your eyes.

The mattress pad companies gotta be begging the mattress companies to go a little thinner.

It’s no coincidence that our phones are just a little too uncomfortable to leave in our pockets while sitting down. You sit down, you have to take it out, it’s out so you get on it...

It’s funny to accuse someone of being a contrarian because you’ll always get to be right.

Everyone’s Britta filter is flashing red 

It’s always, ‘No we don’t have anymore in the back, everything we have is out on the floor’. Then what in the world do you keep back there???

»» Yes, this is the 27th installment. Twenty six have come before.

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Complaint Cards And The Suggestion Box

I doubt you have actual complaint cards or a suggestion box in your line of work but if you did…

If you’re going to fill out a complaint card, might as well think up a solution and fill out something for the suggestion box too.

But if the suggestion is something you can start carrying out yourself, why are you wasting time filling out paperwork?

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Over. Under. Free.

At the very beginning you under think it. You have to. You don’t know enough to do anything else. There’s a lovely naivety when you start. You don’t know what you don’t know.

Then you get into it. Here begins the over thinking. Drinking from a firehose. Sprinting the marathon. Seeing what you don’t know. Every detail seems worth taking an elongated detour for. Forcing ‘making it look natural’.

And then slowly, over time, you break free…having learned a lot from the over thinking but now free from it. You can see what you know and what you don’t…and you can ride that line with confidence…ever expanding it.

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Two Simple Questions. One Simple Answer

Do I like this?

That’s a simple question to answer. It’s personal taste.

Is this any good?

Simple question but now it gets a bit more tricky. Good is relative. Good in relation to bad. Good compared to what? And ‘good’ could mean many things…viable in a certain market, up to a certain standard of quality, technically sound, emotionally connecting, income producing, respectable, safe, cutting edge, the list goes on.

Depending on what session or meeting or studio you’re in, it might be helpful to consider which one of these questions the other people are asking themselves. And if it’s the second one, remember that it gets complicated very quickly.

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Greatness And Famous

There’s no show business squad or music business brigade that is going to show up at your door and say, ‘we’ve had secret cameras watching your progress as a singer and songwriter and performer and we’re here with your rocket ship to take you to the top’.

You can be great behind closed doors but if you open those doors, being great is only one of the necessary steps toward that rocket ship.

Are you great behind closed doors? What about when the doors are open? The game changes when you open the doors.

Greatness does not equal famous.

And famous does not equal greatness.

But if you’re great, we’re cheering for you and we’re glad when we hear about you.

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Plans And Excitement

Winning the lottery, very exciting.

Working a plan, not so much.

So are you hoping and waiting for pure excitement or are you willing to give up the amazing (yet unlikely) excitement of winning the lottery, getting picked, catching a huge lucky break in favor of working a plan that isn’t nearly as exciting but a much more probable way to get what you’re hoping for?

»» Here’s how to spot someone who says they’re working a plan but in reality they’re banking on winning the lottery…they complain a lot.

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