So many ideas. So many things to do. So many great ideas that would benefit you and the world around you.
Artists never seem to have a shortage of the ‘what’, never a shortage of ideas.
With so much ‘what’ floating around all the time I’ve lost interest. I’m tired of hearing about my ideas and your ideas. Every artist has a huge what.
And your what is great…but when?
When are you going to do this idea and that idea and that other new idea?
So artists fumble around when asked when. Because ‘when’ puts you on the hook.
When someone asks about ‘what’ you can be as specifically general as you want: “I’m working on putting together this amazing concept album about a pack of spotted unicorns that take over the fashion district in London”.
Great!
When will it be done so can I hear it?
If you say Tuesday: I can come back around and ask you on Tuesday because that’s when you said it would be all set.
But you won’t say Tuesday, you’ll say “I mean, it’ll be done when it’s done. I’ll get to finishing it when the spirit moves. I just gotta wait for a little more inspiration…yadda yadda yadda…”
Discipline yourself to have less whats and more whens.
p.s. When and why have a great relationship. As your why grows, the when gets sooner. Or maybe doesn’t necessarily get sooner but gets more focused and clear even if it’s not sooner.
p.p.s. “I’m tired of hearing about my ideas and your ideas.”- Let me be more specific here. I’m tired of hearing my ideas and your ideas if there is not a direct turn to why, when and how.
(So I actually love hearing about ideas…both mine and yours)
It would be one thing if we had a lack of ideas, but I just don’t observe that to be the case.
If you’re reading this blog you’re most likely a creative of some type (probably a musician of some sort), and creatives have stock piles of ideas, dreams, things to do one day. I’ve never met an artist with no ideas at all. But I’ve met tons with lots.
If you don’t self impose a when, you won’t.
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