Music Success in Nine Weeks w Ariel day five

Day five of my Music Success Nine Weeks with Ariel:

With the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, I’ve been spending plenty of time working on family goals instead of music goals.

I did have an interesting dream though. I was vividly dreaming that I was 29 years old. I woke up from that dream suddenly realizing that I am 47 years old. It felt so real that it seemed like I aged 18 years in that one waking moment. I am not young anymore and live music performance success is usually associated with young adults.

Who am I to think I can make it in this business now? Worse yet, all of my adult life I’ve wanted to make it as a musical performer. I’ve been trying for 27 years now. It could be argued that I’ve had 27 years of failure with this goal. What am I doing? What am I thinking?

I’m thinking that I’d rather die a failure than die knowing I gave up.
I’m thinking it could be argued that I have 27 years of experience learning how NOT to do it. That’s gotta count for something!

I’m also thinking that the internet and the knowledge that Ariel imparts regarding how it can be used to promote and unknown indie represents a level of opportunity never before available to me.

Lastly, I’ve only been in children’s music for about four years. So, I am trying a new genre with a new fan base for which I appear to be far better suited.

In closing, the lesson of my dream is still the same: I don’t have as much time left as I did when I was 29 years old. If I want to get results, I need to get going!