Feel much better today. Not sure if it was an allergy or something because now it’s raining and this seems to have helped. I usually have spring allergies in May but never June so maybe it was the flu. Who knows. I just hope it goes away.
Everything I do from now on (or until I have made it financially with my music) must support me by one of five ways: performance skills, business skills, physique, character, contacts/relationships. That’s my job; my business. I am the product. My songs are only apart of me. I want my music to be heard and I am the vehicle for the music. Fortunately, there’s lots of stuff online to help with all of this but of course the most important thing is to put everything into practice and keep doing it, keep at it, growing the business, becoming a better musician and artist.
4 hours later…
Need to release some overwhelmingness!
It was definitely allergies because now that it has rained for most of the day, all flu symptoms completely eradicated! That’s quite amazing really that my physical well-being can change so radically and so soon.
All in all, it’s been a great week. I got away from the city (Helsinki) where I still have an apartment although fortunately not for long with my upcoming university relocation to Estonia for the autumn. I’m so sick of Helsinki, ugh… I really need a fresh start! My social life is dead there.
I also started working on my new album. Began properly training my voice. I started a weight training program at the gym and also the flat-picking guitar course. I also have been finding a lot of great new information on marketing and the business side of being a music maker in the 21st century which is something I have kind of overlooked in the past. And of course I got accepted into university. Lots of changes. Lots of stuff happening but what is most important is that I am making it happen. I am not sitting on my ass waiting for things to happen. Of course, I have been making things happen for many years now but now I am really starting to get things organized and know where my focus is and needs to be. I know exactly what I want, who I want to be, where I want to go, how to get there and what to do to make sure I become what I want to be.
Tonight I will finish working on yesterday’s guitar tracks (which I couldn’t finish due to my pseudo-flu). I hope to get all basic guitar tracks done by the end of the month for all 12 songs. It’s a great time to be me. I am so inspired and excited of all the things that lie ahead yet of course I have no idea what will really happen. What opportunities may come, I will be sure to make the most of them (as I am doing already). Most of all, I just want to enjoy life as it happens however things go. And experience things fully and not run away, not wishing I was somewhere else, not being too attached to outcomes or destinations. Writing the song is what it’s all about for me. And when it’s finished, I work on another one! World domination, one song at a time. Okay, I better stop now until things get out of hand…