Victim-thinking is deceptively easy to fall into. It can creep into your marketing, your self-talk, your networking, and you won't catch it until it's already done its damage. Are you waiting to be saved? Here's a music career reality check. Telltale signs you're...
Rejection—it’s an inevitable part of life as a professional musician. You fail to advance in an audition round, your grant proposals are turned down, or you experience radio silence in response to your email pitches. Rejection just comes with the territory. The...
Too many musicians are limited by the voices in their heads: the gremlins that seek to undermine our best efforts. So I ask you to . . . Imagine what a difference it would make to find freedom from negative self-talk What would that change do for you, for your...
How well are you dealing with the artist's struggle of the urgent vs. important? In his terrific book Making Your Life as an Artist, Andrew Simonet writes, “Most artists spend the vast majority of their time dealing with immediate problems. The PR package that was...
It's an impossible trade off. And it's the dilemma every artist faces on some level. Your music career or your love life — How do you choose? No matter your gender, sexual orientation, or marital status, there are a number of career-related factors that make romance...
To celebrate the end of the old year and welcome in the new, I'm "re-purposing" a favorite tool I blogged about a few years back. It's adapted from Dallas Travers' terrific "Year in Review" exercise. Here is How to Engineer Your Better 2019 arranged in twelve simple...
MONDAY BYTES — December 26, 2016 To celebrate the end of the old year and welcome in the new, here's a kit for Engineering Your Better 2017 arranged in twelve steps to get you there. Last week I promised the first 7 Steps to Your Better New Year but only gave you 6—my...
Where are you headed? Note: This is part of the path I walk each week to and from my Qigong class. The class and the walk are both good for clearing my mind and helping me focus on becoming the person I intend to be and living the life I desire. For many of us, having...
MONDAY BYTES — December 14, 2015 Holiday Stress anyone? Inevitably, at this time of year we look over the past 12 months and ahead to the next—often with a feeling that we're powerless to make significant change. My holiday gift to you is a game changing exercise...
MONDAY BYTES — August 17, 2015 Got a manifesto? The messages we tell ourselves are operating instructions for life. It's our unexamined self-talk that shapes our self esteem which in turn guides our behavior, for good or ill. So what would happen if we replaced the...
