They’re over and done…learn what you can from what you’ve done and then move on.
No need to dwell.
You know you’re spending too much time ruminating when it turns into re-scripting the past in hypothetical ways in order to ‘achieve’ a different outcome.
Before you cross that line, just go back to work, go make something. Action is the great antidote to over thinking your past successes and failures.
It needs to be good enough for it to be as good as someone wants it to be.
For example…
The show has to be good enough that the person who wants it to be amazing can reasonably think it was amazing.
And maybe the truth is it wasn’t the most amazing show…Maybe there were mistakes and missed notes and some sloppy transitions…But if it crosses the threshold of good enough, then it can fill the ‘amazing’ expectation of the audience, even if it wasn’t.
Same goes for food, paintings, graphic design and all the other creative endeavors that we make careers out of.
It has to be good enough to be what the audience was hoping for…even when it isn’t.
If you want to be a writer, write everyday. By yourself, with people, on your phone, on paper, in the park, on the edge of your bed in your undies.
Same goes for so many creative endeavors.
Don’t over dramatize it.
Do the work.
The things we do everyday, that’s our lives. And if you want ‘being great’ to be part of your life you’ve gotta do that thing everyday.
First Monday of the Month, new Hum Love playlist on Spotify and Apple.
The music rules have been lifted…so no more complaining.
The last song on this month’s playlist is also currently the number five song in the world on Spotify.
It starts out acoustically in 4/4 time…and if it’s to a click it isn’t tight. Then it speeds way up, big electric guitars, big vocals and 6/8 time…the verse that was played at the beginning of the song is now adapted into the new time signature before another huge chorus and a mellow outro. And the lyrics are solid.
This is not the type of song that gains traction. This is not the type of song you’re suppose to promote. This is not the type of song you write and release to get famous.
Great songs and a great team. Those are the two things you need to build if you’re the artist.
No more complaining. Your weird music can make it. Your normal music can make it. It just has to be really good and your team has to work really hard.