Everyone wants to be good, but how many are ready to make sacrifices to be great. Even before social media, a lot of people wanted to be liked so they tried to be nice. And being liked is different to being good which is different to being great.
I read an article on Warren Buffet a few days ago. Basically he states, the habit that separates successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Would that work in music when artists are tempted to say yes to everything and everyone wants to be liked, too scared to hold a point of view.
Label: Sign your rights away for life plus 70 years and we’ll give you a million dollars.
Artist: Yes please.
And the only way to be great is to build your experiences, learn from them and make mistakes.
Because somewhere in the back of your mind, you had a vision of what you want to be. Read the stories of your heroes and make your own judgements about how they used their experiences and mistakes to be who they are. Be critical in your reading.
Nothing is impossible.
Which is different to what they tell you at school. At school they tell you things and ask you to remember them. The better you can remember things, the better the marks you get and the better the qualifications you get.
And the people who can remember things get employed because of their past wins (qualifications) and not on their future desire to be somebody.
Because the people at school who had no interest in remembering things, had a greater desire and ambition to be somebody who will eventually overtake the qualified people.
To paraphrase Jen Sincero from “You Are A Badass”, you need to do things you’ve never done, to live a life you’ve never lived.
And remember you start with nothing and from that nothing, you find a way to make something.
So get to it.
Where can I sign to get that Million Bucks! haha
Great Read!
Say no Deke, Say noooo
I can’t man I just can’t.
Did you catch any of the Tea Party shows in your backyard at all last month? Been meaning to ask!
Yeah, I missed the Sydney show on 23 June. Was going to get tickets last minute and then with all the weekend sport that happened, I just didn’t have the enthusiasm to drive 90 minutes to a show.
I’ve missed heaps of shows in the last 12 months due to being run down.
Ah Man hope your hanging in there Pete!
The Tea Party were closer to you than they were to me on there recent Canadian Tour!
I wasn’t going to drive 9 hours haha
Pfff 9 hours…
yeah you are right about them being closer.
Dee Snider played here as well and I missed him, Def Leppard was 25 minutes away and I missed them as well.
In saying that I have been watching comedy live. Maybe my budget is going on that.
Dollars can only be stretched so thin
I’m flying to Vancouver in early September to see Maiden
That’s my biggie show for the year and perhaps next year as well!
Maiden has us hooked hey..
Yup they do! This will be the third straight tour I have seen and they do not disappoint
U know that as I can hear u screaming on the live album haha
Lol I watched the video of the Somewhere Back In Time video, so many times to see when they showed the crowd for Flight Of Icarus Sydney show, if I could see myself. Even my boys got into it.
Another good tour