After traveling to eight countries this year, teaching master classes and speaking on panels the thing that stands out for me is:
How hard we can be on ourselves.
It's almost the end of the year, and it was a crazy year for most of us. Musicians and colleagues alike tell me that they were busier than ever before.
We have all had to come up with more creative ways to stay relevant and vital in the current music business either as musicians or entrepreneurs, so, this busy-ness makes a lot of sense.
You constantly have to stay on top of not only your creative journey and output, writing, rehearsing, booking, touring, marketing, and managing all of your social media, recording and releasing music, not to mention keeping balance in your personal life as well.
I saw one too many artists at conferences and seminars with their eyes glazing over from overwhelm.
I want you to take a step back and take stock in your success and remember the good pieces.
The pieces that you are proud of, and acknowledge yourself for them.
In the past 12 months that just whizzed by all of us and with a new year looming ahead with new goals to go go go get it's easy to stop an see where you have been.
Questions:
- What in the last year are you most proud of music career wise?
- Did you set out to achieve something with your career but perhaps you missed your mark?
- Did something wonderful or unexpected happen to you?
- Perhaps you thought your year would go very differently but illness, death, birth or loss of a job took precedent?
- How did you and are you managing those things?
