YOU WANT IT? -GO GET IT!
I was speaking with a great singer-songwriter friend of mine named Josef Gordon about his approach to achieving his goals for his career and what he said has stuck with me ever since:
"What do you do when you wake up in the morning and want a cup of coffee? -You go out and get a cup of coffee, right? Well, that's what I'm doing now- I want a career in music, so I'm gonna go get it!"
Duh-- right?! At first read, that sounds like the most trite piece of advice-- but when I thought about how often I've sat around wishing and hoping for my career to blossom without even getting up off the couch, I realized I had some work to do.
"Work begets work."
-John Taylor
Bassist, Duran Duran
When you get up and go look for gigs, returns are bound to come. They may not come right away and they may not come often, but they're guaranteed to at least have better chances of coming than if you had put nothing out there at all.
If you want it, go get it-- in whatever form that looks like:
ARTISTS/WRITERS- post work on forums, etsy, blogs, at local boutiques
MUSICIANS- search for gigs on Craigslist, post flyers at music shops and rehearsal studios, play out as often as possible!
Create work for yourself by being around people who ARE working and attending events where your work can be showcased.
Also, don't be too proud to let people know you're available. Save your "I'm too busy" remarks for when you actually are working too much to take any more gigs-- you aren't creating more demand for your talent by not taking a job. If your product is indeed excellent, it will get recognized and you will get more of the work you want.
How much do you want it?
If you woke up and wanted that cup of coffee, how far would you go to get it?
Would you still get it if:
-You had to make the coffee yourself?
-You didn't have transportation (to the nearest coffee place)?
-You didn't have money?
-You didn't own a coffee machine?
-The nearest coffee place was 50 miles away?
-It wasn't the kind of coffee you wanted?
-There was no cream or sugar?
-You could only get an ounce of in?
-It interfered with your social plans?
If you wanted that coffee bad enough, none of these problems would matter-- right?
I would challenge you to ask yourself these types of questions in terms of goals you have set for yourself- knowing full well that most, if not all of these scenarios will come up eventually and that there will be sacrifice in getting the type of outcome you desire.
The question is- what are you actually willing to do to achieve your goals?
/seevaldrum
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