DMSI 3.2 it's official

[Shannon]

Picked up a book on amazon yesterday that I'm 99% sure was brought to me as a path forward. Anyway, the book is about making money from music by building passive income in the form of licensing out your music. There's been a lot of up and downs in my head. For one I started questioning if I'd have time for my own music. Second question was could I even compete with the great producers already out there? I mean half the time I can't even finish my own stuff. And the stuff I do finish isn't really that great as far as music goes.

Basically the author was talking about more than just licensing out music. He was talking about building your own business. What I really hate is how I'm so afraid of taking things into my own hands, I'll give up my own precious time for someone else to make the big decisions when it comes to business. I find myself coming up with excuses as to why creating a business around my music isn't a good idea. Things like "it'll destroy my enjoyment of it", "I'll have to sell out and make stuff I don't care about just to pay the bills", "I'm just not that type of person", "I'm not good at marketing".

They're all just excuses and fear about things that I can't even know for certain are true or not. But I realized something. I have to make money to survive anyway. And time is precious to me. I'd rather spend my time getting better at music, even if it's stuff I'm not super into vs working at a job that feels like it's robbing hours of my life and pushing me further away from my musical goals. And who knows, maybe I can work on stuff I really like and get paid for it, I have to keep that possibility open. The phrase too good to be true comes to mind, as I've gotten older I've been surrounded by people that keep perpetuating this narrative that you can't make good money and love what you do.

Anyway, I just don't feel like I'm really all that focused on the goals of DMSI. I'm wondering if I should move to a different sub to push forward with this whole business venture. But at the same time nothing has really impacted me like DMSI. I just don't want my focus split between two things and both are just watered down. As of right now I've been getting home from work dead tired and DMSI is also kicking my ass. I really need it to turn around for me because in this state I feel like I don't have any energy to put towards my music.

DMSI is kicking your ass because your ass is fighting the progress. That means you are making progress. Don't fall for these bullshit excuses. Keep going.