Be Cleraly Intersting Once a Day
No one has ever asked me what I’ve learned making a blog entry a day for a year. And I hate that this dangerously flies very close to a LinkedIn-style post, but it’s what I’ve got to say today, which is…
It’s much easier for me to get my point across when I know that every day, I’ve got to say a little something interesting or tell an interesting story about something generally connected to music, usually, but not always, because there’s no rules.
There is one rule. Don’t sound like LinkedIn. Don’t teach lessons and talk down to a bunch of people who are doing the exact same things. Really, it’s just chatbox talking, but that’s something else entirely.
I just am focusing on everything so much better. Musically, when I want to tell people what I’m doing, when I’m trying to focus in on what I’m trying to do with a song, or a piece, or part, or someone’s asked me to do something with their band. It is way easier to get my point across.
Because I’ve been trying to get one point across a day for an entire year.
And just like with music, practice works. If you keep trying to do that thing and keep working at it, it gets better.
Not that the stories are getting better or more interesting. It’s just that it’s easier for me to get across the things I’m trying to get across. Because if I ramble and if it’s hard, then it’s really hard to edit, but if it’s not, it’s easy to clean up, and then it’s off to the races.
Maybe I’ll spend the next few days going through different things about the last year, but I probably won’t. In fact, I’ll probably forget by the time I go to bed tonight, and then it’ll be some other line of BS tomorrow.
Don’t worry.