Here is how to practice being your future self (and why you'd want to). It's all about how you invest your energy and time—and being able to see yourself as that capable future YOU that you most want to grow into. What gets in the way of becoming that desired future...
What if instead of letting fear and uncertainty overpower us, what if we leaned into accepting where we are now: Musicians — Welcome to the Ordeal. I know, it sounds like a video game. I wish it were. But it's our reality: we're in the Ordeal, the "all is lost"...
Maybe you feel this way, too: That there's never enough time in the day or in the week to get to everything. So your creative time for your music gets pitted against taking care of the business side of your art. You end up cheating on one for the other. The issue...
In career coaching, questions are paramount. The kind of questions that get us to slow down and take stock. To focus on our values and our goals. It's about re-orienting ourselves to what actually matters, as opposed to the daily crap we obsess over. It's all too easy...
Need more holiday stress solutions? If you're like me, the holidays always wreak havoc. My regular schedule goes out the window, my productivity is trashed, and my sleeping and eating are likewise disrupted. With Thanksgiving over, you may be recovering from the...
I've worked with many musicians on the issue of getting past Resistance, Procrastination, and Distractions. Maybe you've had some of these challenges too? So here are 5 of my favorite tools for Getting More Done so you can get more of your best work out into the world...
MONDAY BYTES — August 11, 2014 Jullien Gordon's TED talk on "side hustling" millennials and why it's dangerous to have just one source of income is especially applicable to musicians. Granted most musicians have multiple income streams and project-driven careers: so...
MONDAY BYTES July 28, 2014 Summertime is finite and fleeting. For many, we're in the home stretch. How are you doing with your summer goals? If you haven't yet completed (or started) your ambitious summer goals, or have done inconsistent work and made little...
MONDAY BYTES – January 27, 2014 I recently had to move everything off of my computer desktop for a system update. It was a chore and I thought it would slow me down from immediately finding "urgent" files.But I didn't realize what the upside would be. The difference...
MONDAY BYTES – September 9, 2013 You know the 80/20 rule: of the all the work you do during your day, it's 20% that produce the results that really matter. 20% of your work produces 80% of your effective results. The challenge is to identify and focus on the right...
