One thing that I have finally learnt lately is that if you are an artist, expectation will kill it. If I go out to play thinking “must be a rock star” I might as well not go. The noose of expectation constricts my vocals chords and ties my guitar playin’ hands. Until about 2 gigs ago, thats how it was most of the time. That was until my experience at the Art House (which I wrote about in the last blog) first hurt me and then cured me of expectationitis.
To go and perform, sing for the sake of singing, smile, have fun. That is it. “Facebook” brings a new element to connection and timing in life. Around the same time I was experiencing all this I read the quote “I know some people say “Keep your eyes on theprize,” but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you’re going to keepstumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you’ve got to keepyour eyes focused on the path.”~ Russell Simmons. That really says it all.
Will Smith says “You don’t say “I am going to build a wall” you go and lay a brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. You do that every single day, and soon you have a wall”:
Art without expectation is true creative freedom. Now I can just be myself and sing my songs and it feels great.
Last Tuesday I got a phonecall from Romney the Entertainment manager at the Art House Hotel in Sydney asking me if I could fill in for an artist that had cancelled that night. I enthusiastically said yes and even changed some plans with friends so that I could go to the gig.
So I went to [...]
My dream is to be a globally successful singer/songwriter and for my music to reach millions. It is a huge dream that is sometimes daunting, especially if I try to do everything myself.
Good friendship is always valuable and that value isn’t always tangible, in fact it is rarely tangible. When you are going after a big [...]
I am very fortunate to be a father of 10 month old twins, a boy and a girl. I get to experience something rare and phenomenal on a day-to-day basic: the social interaction of two brand new, unprogrammed human beings. It wasn’t until 7 months that they actually knew “what” the other one was. Even [...]
If you are looking for a life coach look no further than the computer game hero Super Mario. I am serious and I will tell you why.
I am in Venezuela with my wife and twin 8 month olds staying at my wife’s parents farm. There internet connection is so slow it is almost unusable. So, [...]
“The Universe is broadcasting all frequencies, you are the radio”. This phrase has been in my mind alot lately.
My father in law said the other night “Esta es un mundo de locos” (This world is full of crazy people). I thought, really, I reckon it is full of amazing, lovely people. I only tend to [...]
Today a very simple, elegant, all encompassing explanation of how the Law of Attraction works came to me.
The whole purpose of our existance in the “outer world” (Physical Reality) is to ENJOY physically all the things that we can conceive in the “inner world”.
The inner world is everything and anything that has or ever will [...]
I was walking in the hills surrounding my wife’s parent’s farm today thinking about life. I was thinking about the Law of Attraction and how to manifest everything that I want in life. It became clear to me recently that in order to manifest something I want, I can’t just want it, I have to [...]
Ok so I have arrived at a huge bridge on my Path to Bliss. It is one of those rope bridges that you see in the movies, a big wobbly one. On the other side of the bridge there is a sign that says “Where all your dreams come true”. The sign on this side [...]
The other night, I was in front of the computer organizing the next day.
My wife and I are putting together her application to immigrate to Australia and I had to find out where the Australian Consulate and Argentine Embassy were in Caracas.
Finding the Australian Consulate was easy and took me 2 minutes.
I “google mapped” the [...]
