July 2016 - Page 3 of 3 - HELLO, my name is Blog!

I have a musician friend who has thirty songs in the can.

Ready to be recorded and released into the world.

But he’s paralyzed by the fear of volume. He’s scared that publishing to many songs at once will overwhelm his fans, since they’re used to hearing his work five songs at a time. That’s why, for the past two years, he’s been sitting on them. Nobody has heard a single note. And frankly, I don’t know if they ever will.

Senge was right when he wrote, in a state of fear, our actions are most likely to revert to what is habitual. When the reality is, there’s no such thing as creating too much. Less isn’t more, more is more.

Ask anyone who’s been creating for a living for more than ten years. If you keep coming up with new ideas, everything else magically falls into place.

You notice which themes your life is generating. You understand what project you’re supposed to be working on next. You attract partners and collaborators and vendors to help you along the journey. You kick open doors to exciting new opportunities and jobs and gigs. You connect with customers you never would have met otherwise. You create leverage to build a new context for yourself and take your career to the next level.

And the best part is, each of those experiences, brought into existence by the very process of coming up with new ideas, helps to refill the reservoir with even more ideas, perpetuating the process in ad infinitum.

There’s no downside to volume.

Less isn’t more, more is more.

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Every successful goes through some version of boot
camp.

It’s that initial indoctrination and instruction that’s designed to push
them to their physical and mental limits, much further than they would normally
push themselves alone. It’s intense, it’s stressful, it’s fast and it’s
unforgiving.

And yet, nobody regrets it. Because when they look back five, ten,
even twenty years later, they realize that their boot camp created the basis
for action in the battlefields of the future.

I played high school football for
four years. And every summer, we suffered through twoadays. Practicing
from seven in the morning until three in the afternoon, in full pads, in one
hundred degree heat, every single day. For two weeks.

It was hell on earth.
Making it to lunch without passing out was a victory in itself.

And yet, we all
knew it was good for us. Our boot camp conditioned our bodies, our bonds and
our minds. What’s more, in those few weeks, we clocked the equivalent to six
months of playing time. Even though season hadn’t even started year.

That’s how
boot camps work. They allow you to accumulate significant experience in a
compressed unit of time.

And so, whatever dream you’re chasing, the healthiest
thing you could do, especially early on in the process, is to find a way to put
yourself through boot camp. To surrender yourself to a process and a venue and
an experience that’s outside of your control.

One that forces you to fight for
your life. One that takes you on a ride before you’re ready to go on one. One
that promises total exhaustion from tasks that are outside of your skill set.

Like the newly formed garage band who books themselves on a thirty city tour
playing shithole bars with terrible acoustics and apathetic audiences. Get in
the van and get ready to develop a case of the humbles.