Building A New Town

If you were put in charge of building a new town what would you build first?

Maybe a house, or an electrical plant, a grocery store?

The truth is if you only built any one of those things first you’d fail.

In order to build a new town lots of elements would need to be built at the same time, overlapping timelines, cooperation on land and city design. And you couldn’t do it yourself.

What would be even better is if you hired a bunch of people who have built cities before to help you.

I’m sure you get the metaphor.

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Last Song

The good thing about playing your last song is you have the benefit of knowing how all the other songs went over before it.

And on top of that, odds are you’re closing the show with your best song.

So your best song coupled with the most informed adjustments.

Your ending ought to be great…and alls well that ends well.

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The Local Band

Being the local band is great. If there’s a county fair, you get the call. A chili cook off, dance, beach party…you get the call.

And then someone starts another band.

Now you’re not the local band, you’re A local band.

Now you don’t simply get the call because because you’re the band. You get the call because you do something that the other band doesn’t do.

Multiply this scenario by tens of thousands.

Why do you get the call?

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Cracking The Christmas Hit Code

Right now the entire Spotify US Top 10 is Christmas songs. It’s all the ones you’d think would be there. The classics.

The only way to have a chance at getting in that Christmas club is to truly commit.

There have been a handful of artists recently who have made a real push to crack the Christmas song code. Putting out a Christmas album, pushing a single, doing a tour…and then doing that cycle a couple more times.

And they aren’t in the top 10. Not even in the top 50.

So if you do all the work but don’t get the Christmas hit, was it worth it?

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The Good Thing About Old Magic

When you’ve had the magic, the chemistry, the thing and then that particular season comes to an end, it’s easy to think that it will never come back. It’s easy to think that the extra special is a thing of the past. You had it once, you should be happy you even had it once but it’s not ever coming back.

On the other hand…Having the magic once before tells you that the MAGIC IS IN FACT POSSIBLE.

Having the magic once before is a gift. Not only for that particular season but to open your eyes to see that it’s a real thing that really happens. And it could happen again.

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No Limits

You don’t show up and write everyday to see if this is the day that you’ll finally run out.

You write everyday and develop an understanding that while creativity has edges, it doesn’t have limits.

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