Since December turned into a quiet month for my coaching practice I decided that rather than stress out and rail against the injustices of the global economy I would instead finish a long-incomplete creative project.
Yes. I completed mixing a 10-song music CD project that I've been working on for the past 4 (or more) years. And it felt really good to finish it. Here are some things I learned in the process.
FOCUSING ON ONE THING REALLY HELPS
Because even though it sounds like "one thing" it's really a million little things: new ideas, new obstacles, new solutions, new frustrations: each that must be encountered and mastered.
And it takes time, attention, energy, focus and desire to apply the necessary compression of attention, skills and persistence to complete something meaningful.
OBSTACLES AS INDICATOR
A teacher I heard once said, "obstacles appear in proportion to the importance of the project at hand."
In other words, if the project is really important to you, the obstacles will be huge. Thus, your interior challenges will rise accordingly as well. On my music project, I encountered, and survived, 2 hard drive crashes, numerous challenging software upgrades and incompatibilities, missing files, equipment failures and technical challenges etc.
AND THEN . . .
And then there are were the creative challenges and questions:
-Are my songs any good?
-What will people think?
-Is the bass too loud?
-Is this thing taking too long?
-Is this music style passé?
-Will anyone ever hear it?
-Have my lyrics been too revealing?
-Too chiche?
-Too obtuse?
-Am I using too much reverb?
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