Pick it Back Up!
While going through my emails the other day I came across an email from the owner of Taxi which touched on the topic of not giving up in frustration and actually picking things back up that didn’t work for you in the past. This intrigued me quite a bit considering I have been doing just that lately. After having frustration after frustration with trying to get things going for me on the creative side of the music industry I’ve spent quite a long time now working mostly focused on the business end. This comes a lot easier for me to tell you the truth, I have experience from my working with my label and developing artists in the past and I have spent several years now studying up on the various aspects of the industry, most particularly artist development and marketing. So as rap artist The Game would put it I ‘Let my pen fall asleep on my page’, not working on writing songs or crafting music in any way.
Eventually though, idea after idea, after idea hit me and I just recently began writing songs again! I’m just getting around to shopping them around and such, however, just a few weeks after I started back writing an artist I had left a song lyric with that I felt would really be a hit with the right artist and delivery called me up. The opening line of the conversion was “We’re gonna be rich”, (My kind of phone greeting! 
. I was puzzled to tell you the truth. I had figured the person didn’t see into my vision of the song and had forgotten about it as I was beginning to, however, it ended up just being put on the back burner for a while. The song I hear has gotten a great response from audiences wherever this artist has played it and may (most likely) find its way onto this artists’ next cd project and eventually even be a single release.
So there you have it. My personal story of why you should never give up too soon. The second I picked myself up from my past failures and broken efforts the universe began to work things out for me. Not only have things picked up in my songwriting/publishing pursuits, but I am also creeping my way back behind the mixing board and finding immediate successes and results in that area as well. What does this mean for you? I don’t know exactly, maybe there’s an instrument, or skill level on production that you’d like to reach, but like so many felt overly discouraged and just gave in too quick, or maybe it’s something else. Why not give it one more try? Consider inventors like Edison and possibly any artist that has ever inspired you. They had many of failures and shortcomings I’m sure, but they didn’t let that stop them. So don’t let that stop you, I challenge you this week, Pick IT Back Up, whatever IT may be.