Dear Friends,
I receive Discmaker's blog. Ordinarily I'm not tempted, but the other day I saw a heading: "Top Music Business Mistakes of 2010" and I bit!
I'm glad I did. The series of articles I read was perhaps the most sensible thing I've EVER read about us self-propelled creative types. In sum, the five articles, plus the attached interview, say more or less that there is no "big break," no "next level." You try stuff, you keep going, and if you last long enough, are organized, have good goals and have something of value, you make slow progress. Period.
For a long time I fretted about making it to "the next level." But this series put my mind at ease. Sure, there are big breaks, but they come as a result of a long slow process. And in the end, they're just another link in a long rope that goes beyond them.
So I've been doing what I need to do to succeed for a long time. I may not be as organized as I need to be, may not have done as much or been as smart as I could have, but by doing what I can do and trying to get better, and by keeping on, I'm doing exactly what I should be doing. And if I succeed, I succeed, and if I don't, I don't. Period.
That may not be reassuring to everyone, but for where I'm at I'm ready to hear it, and it's exactly what I need to hear.
http://blog.discmakers.com/2011/01/top-5-music-business-mistakes-of-2010/
Love,
Adam