If you’re long term strategy is to make money by playing shows, but you never make enough money to keep playing shows, then it’s an incomplete strategy. You’ll never reach your long-term.
It’s easy to not strategize and plan at all.
But then, once you get over that hump, the next easiest thing to do is to strategize the distant future…that way it’s far away, and has the least amount of connection to today. You can strategize the distant future and then just go back to doing what you were doing, since the distant future doesn’t apply right now.
What’s your short term strategy for bringing money into your system? What’s your short term strategy for keeping the lights on and gas in the van? What’s your short term strategy to make this year better than last year?
The long-term, big dreams and plans are crucial, but in order to get there, the short term strategy needs your attention.
The short term is a gateway to the long term. The long term is a gateway to the short term.
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