Everyone is tired.
And everyone gets energized.
You’re tired of the road…until Maroon 5 wants you to open up the tour.
You’re tired of writing…until Steven Tyler needs to write you his next single.
You’re tired of the hustle and grind…until you’re phone starts ringing instead of you having to do all the calling.
You’re plain old sleepy tired…until someone offers you $10,000 to stay up a little longer.
There’s always an energizing force.
And, for the long run, the hope is that you don’t need a truck full of cash to back up into your driveway in order for you to renew your energy.
For the long run, the hope is that the very opportunity to do the work is what will renew your energy daily.
The people who get their energy back consistently quickly, win.
And the only thing that happens everyday is the opportunity to do the work.
p.s. Back in the day, whenever there was a really long trip back to Nashville after a gig…we’d be pulling into town at 4 or 5 or 6 in the morning…inevitably someone would pass around the hypothetical, “How much to turn around right now and go play a four hour set in Montgomery, AL?”
We’d be absolutely exhausted, but there was always a price. It was fun…”You’d do it for $500???? No way, I’d need at least $1000” “Oh really, you wouldn’t do it for $900?” “Maybe…would there be set breaks?”. And on and on.
The conversation would take us all the way to our own driveway.
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