10 ways to succeed @ Life and Music

1. Choose something you love doing and make it your career choice
   If you want to succeed beyond survival, chose a career path relative to your greatest love in life. If your biggest love is writing, find a way to incorporate writing into making money. Call yourself a writer and write as much as you can.
   
2. Utilize your friends, and their friends
   You will never have a larger team of support workers than the people who you have spent your life growing with. Your friends and people whom you grew up with are the best option for helping you go from nothing to something. By utilizing the skills and assets of people you know you are more likely to succeed and be happy with the results. Often if you only share a page in a yearbook people will still feel like you are a part of their past and be willing to help you accomplish your goal.
3. Create a need
   If your product or service is sellable, create a need for your product or service in the largest way possible. People consume what they need and what they want. The best way to create a need is to advertise. This includes social networking sites and guerrilla marketing.
   
4. Mimic success, while staying innovative
   Find a model for success in your chosen field and adapt it to your idea’s. A successful business or person will exert many benneficial strategies in their public actions. Tune into these and use them for yourself.
5. Visualize yourself at the top
   Nothing is more motivating than closing your eyes and pretending you are the best at what you do in every way. Imagine yourself in the fastest car, or on top the highest mountain. It is proven in history that even people at the lowest points of life can reclaim their existence and conquer life fully.
6. Analyze yourself
   Review your actions. If something didn’t work out as planned, re-visit its structure and redevelop a new working strategy. Reward yourself for things that worked out better than you had hoped. Make sure you never settle on the way things “are”.
7. Grow
   Even as a millionaire you can be a billionaire. Along your journey your situation will change. You will succeed, fail, win, and lose but stay assertive and be aware of how you can flex with your life for a positive outcome.
   
8. Define yourself by your career choice
   Make your career choice your identity. whatever it is you choose to be should be synonymous for your name. Be forward about what you do as if your name was “bill smith camera operator”. Allow people to discuss what you do around and away from you.
   
9. Stay positive, success takes time
   Try and stay focused on minor goals while maintaining an overall picture of your circumstances. It may take years to become a pro football player but along the way you can watch little parts of it come true. Remember, the journey is the experience and without a positive ride to the top you will not feel fulfilled or rewarded.
   
10. Remember your motivations
    Think back to why you decided to take the path you did. What was it that fueled your love for your chosen path? If you constantly recall why you started what you started, you are more likely to finish it.

I started playing music 8 years ago because I felt the need to repay all the musicians that made my childhood last into adulthood. Without music and touring bands I don’t know if I would be alive today. So I dedicated my life to filling the spots of musicians that come and go. I owe it to the next generation of kids to create and expose them to music, and hopefully effect them in a positive way. I will never be anything else besides a kid who plays drums in bands. And I cant promise that I will be the best there ever was. But when I close my eyes, I see myself making that difference in peoples lives and when I open them its real.

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