Five things a day. Just do it.
The key to success not just in the music industry but in anything you do is consistency. Look at another area of your life. How did you achieve a particular goal you set? You stuck at it and did what you needed to do regularly to get there.
If it was passing exams at school, you revised a little bit every day in the lead up to the exam. Think to when you bought a car or a home, you saved up a little bit and consistently to get wherey you wanted to get. There is real power in consistency.
There is nothing more important in promoting your music and growing your music business than to be consistent. That is, deciding on one or more goals and creating a path to get there.
Before you go to sleep today, make a list of five things you need to do tomorrow. Then wake up, and make sure you do them in order of high priority to lower priority. Do these five things first before you do anything off the list. Make it so important that if you did these five things in the day, you will be totally fulfilled and anything you do after that is a bonus.
When you decide upon five things, ask yourself about each one: does this task contribute to me achieving my goal? If it doesn’t then the task doesn’t deserve to sit on your list of five. It can be done afterwards.
Make your list of five. If five’s too much, do four. Or three.
Then do it daily. And consistently.
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I find that the Priority Planner system is an incredible system for not only keeping business straight but for prioritizing activities from one day to the next while allowing for flexibility for those unexpected occurences that require immediate attention.
Those who know me professionally and personally always tell me that I get more accomplished in one month than most people accomplish in a year. I believe it’s because I have cultivated the consistency and dedication required to make a workable system sustainable in my life.
Not only am I a musician and a composer, but I am a single parent raising a child with Autism. If that’s not a bag of interesting challenges that consistently drop unexpected occurences into my life on a regular basis, I don’t know what qualifies.
The key words to remember and make us of are: consistency, prioritization, dedication and focus. It also helps if you do all of this with a positive attitude.
Hi Elyse
You are so right. Indeed, it is all about consistency and priorities. Focus comes with dedication. It’s all a package for one’s success.
- Kavit