I was on stage playing with an artist and I got a call.
I had no idea. I was on stage.
When I got off stage I listened to the voice mail. It was for a bigger gig.
I called back. The gig was already filled.
It was a easy to chalk it up to ‘it just wasn’t meant to be’…but the deeper insight was that I needed to put in the work to become a musician who was worth waiting thirty minutes for a call back.