Smart Musician Tips: What To Do When You Stall Out Or Hit Reverse

by Cari Cole

 

 

Hey beautiful artists!! As an artist in today’s climate you most likely circle around from excitement and possibility to frustration, despair, and even devastation only to rise back around to excitement again.

Sound familiar? Yep, it’s a perpetually turning ferris wheel.

But what do you do when you’re on the shadow side of the wheel? When nothing you are doing seems to be working or you stall out or even hit reverse?

The thing is you’ve got to get this one thing straight.

 

No matter how much you try to change it, once a musician, always a musician. So even when you want to throw in the towel and sit back and have a “normal” life with nights out with friends, movies, sports events, (and even worse) being a spectator at music concerts — you can’t. It’s not like you can have surgery and remove that part of yourself.

So – stop trying to. It’ll just backfire anyway and then you’ll be mad at the time you lost.

Here’s my quick prescription:

 

  1. Man / Woman Up. Sometimes you screw up. Matter of fact, if you’re ever to become successful you’re going to screw up a lot. Get used to it. Success is built on a million failures. The quicker you accept them (and not punish yourself for them), the sooner you can move on. And the more you do it, the quicker the turn around time is. Get good at fessing up and then get help (see #2).
  2. Knowledge is power. Join me and a community of incredible musicians and artists who are doing-the-work for a truly empowering and inspirational (and richly informative) evening at my first free training of 2015: The Smart Musician: 3 Musician Mindsets That Break the Mold, Attract Super Fans + Followers, Win Awards and Garner A-List Industry Praise! Thursday, Feb 26th at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT (check your timezone here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/)

Click here and sign up to receive the Vocal Road Warrior 3-part series to get on the email list so that we can send you the link to the registration information.

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Hi, I’m Cari Cole.

You’ve got talent, but you want to become great at it. You’re in the right place! My mission is to help you refine your unique artist vision to bring to the world.

About Cari Cole

Cari Cole is the CEO / Founder of caricole.com and CCVM: Label Without Walls. She is a Holistic Vocal Coach, Artist Development Expert, A&R Director, and Songwriter based in New York City helping artists for the past 38 years. She is a mentor for Women in Music and The Association of Independent Music Publishers.

Her latest venture, CCVM a label services company, provides artists with a seamless path from creation to completion. After 30+ years of observing the overwhelm and challenges that artists face, Cari pulled together the best top creative professionals and designed a new approach to supporting our artists.

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