Hey!

Well it's been a few weeks since my last blog and you may have wondered where I got to. I have to be truthful and say that I've been really busy with a load of other stuff - and so this brought me to the subject of this week's blog - what is distracting you from your music career?

It could be a multitude of things - you may be holding down a full time job whilst trying to create your music in your spare time. Or you may be at college or Uni and have loads of work and revision to do for your exams. You may have very little spare time, if any at all, and trying to cram in all your other priorities may stop you really focussing on your music.

Yeah, life happens, and before you know it 2 or 3 weeks have gone past and you've not had a chance to move any of your plans forward in your quest to succeed in your music career, whatever shape that comes in.

So, what can you do about all these distractions? Well, here's an exercise for you. First, make a list of all the things that you have done over the last week that have stopped you from focusing on your music. Eg: visiting your folks, going shopping, going to the cinema or the pub with friends, babysitting your kid brother, homework(!), falling asleep after a hard days work and so on...

Then take a good look down your list and consider whether you really had to do all those things - did you have a choice? Could you have said "No" to any of them? What would the consequences have been if you had said No, to any of them? Could your time have been better spent on focussing on an aspect of your music career?

Of course this is not easy - there are so many things that you want to do and often have to do in your daily lives. And so I'm not suggesting for one moment that you don't visit your family or friends or go out have some fun - these are essential. What I am going to ask you to do in future is to ask yourself the question "By saying "Yes" to something, like going to see a film, what are you saying "No" to (maybe working on your latest song)?"

Quite often life is all about getting the balance right - you obviously have esential needs - such as food, shelter, warmth, friendsships etc. Then you have the choices - it is with the choices that the above question comes into play more effectively.

And sometimes, something's gotta give - just like my blog for a few weeks - by saying no to the blog, I was able to focus on other stuff within my music career - which is all about helping you musicians to live yours!

There are of course other things that also stop you from moving forward in your music careers such as procrastination and your 'gremlin' - but I'll be telling you about them in future blogs!

Hope you are able to balance your Yes's and No's successfully to stop your distractions and enable you to move forward in your music career - but if not, give me a shout and we can discuss how I can help you!

Until next time!

Linz