Oftentimes, the only person stopping you from becoming everything you can become is you.
Your greatness is already inside of you. You don’t need to go looking for it.
So, what is the greatest enemy to unlocking all that you already are? Why do you spend so much time spinning your wheels? The answer is eye opening.
What’s preventing you from embracing what’s already available to you is the familiar.
The familiar is comfortable. It’s expected. It’s highly dependable.
At the end of a long, hard day, there’s always a warm, comfortable, inviting bed called “familiar” waiting for you. You can return to it whenever it feels like you’re so far outside of your comfort zone you’re living in a horror film.
But it’s that tendency to avoid and escape the scary that holds us back from having everything we desire. Because we are already worthy of it.
Life demands expansion. And it will take us there rather naturally if we let it.
The problem is we resist change. The new is always more uncomfortable than the familiar.
Examine closely your daily routine. When is the last time you felt like you were doing something new? When is the last time you felt the discomfort of the unfamiliar?
There is nothing wrong with anything unfamiliar. Only our thinking makes it so.
The familiar isn’t to be loathed. And although I used the term “enemy” earlier, the familiar doesn’t need to be made the enemy. That’s just another form of resistance, and whatever you resist persists.
But it would be wise to recognize the familiar. If you’re doing the same thing the same way expecting different results, you’re stuck in an insanity loop that’s preventing the fullness that you are from emerging.
Getting what you want will require that you step outside of the familiar. That’s where it lies. It does not exist in doing more of what you already know to do. How are you expanding today?
The New
👉 Friendly reminder… Your week is what you make of it. It doesn’t matter what you’ve encountered this past week, you can get something from everything if you have the right mindset. And I’m here to support you on your journey.
🎙️In the latest episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I invited Monica Strut onto the show to talk about the five layers of independent success and music distribution.
👉 Friendly reminder… Your week is what you make of it. It doesn’t matter what you’ve encountered this past week, you can get something from everything if you have the right mindset.
🎙️The New Music Industry Podcast is back! Have a listen to the latest episode on five types of clients to avoid in music, featuring some of my very own disaster stories.
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🎙️ If you haven’t already listened to my interview on Unstarving Musician, I invite you once more to tune in for some great insights.
Before I get to today’s PDF Vault related updates, I wanted to let you know something:
The New Music Industry Podcast is returning, and we’re going back to a weekly format! The next episode is coming out on Friday. So, keep an eye out for it, because in the latest episode I share some of my biggest disasters in working with clients.
The fun part is that this all ties in nicely with the current optimization work I’m doing on Music Entrepreneur HQ as well as the development of the PDF Vault.
And as I continue to review early episodes (I’m making PDF transcripts for each), I’ve been reminded of the essence of the podcast. And I’m excited about what I’m creating right now as well as what’s to come.
Today, I added the following PDF resources to the Music Entrepreneur HQ PDF Vault.
019 – Recording Music & Getting it Placed – with Juno Award Winning Songwriter and Artist Helen Austin
020 – The Music Entrepreneur Traffic Analysis 2016
021 – Career Update: November 2016
022 – Merry Christmas & Thank You
023 – 7 Productive Things to do During the Holiday Season
024 – 2016 in Review
025 – 6 Impacting Books I Read in 2016
026 – Top 10 The Music Entrepreneur HQ Posts of 2016
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