295 – Setting the Foundation for Your Music Career

There are some critical steps to take before you even begin. Because whatever foundation you build on is the foundation that will stay with you. And if it’s a shaky foundation, you may never be able to build the music career of your dreams and create the life you love through your music. In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, David shares about the crucial importance of building your music career on solid ground. Download the PDF Transcription Podcast Highlights: 00:16 – Building a solid foundation 00:53 – Your music career blueprint 01:30 – The secret to making your dreams a reality 02:47 – Do something and adjust course 03:47 – Start with the end in mind 04:23 – Closing thoughts Sponsors: The Music Entrepreneur Companion Guide: Get the official definitive companion guide to The Music Entrepreneur Code covering, in clarity and detail, secrets to making it in the new music business. Productivity, Performance & Profits Blackbook: The first of its kind – David’s new premium book covering productivity, featuring content from Music Entrepreneur HQ, his personal blog, his many books, and even Start Your Year the Right Way, which is included in its entirety. Be fully unleashed in accomplishing your dreams and desires! Transcription: Hey, it's David Andrew Wiebe, and today I wanted to talk about building a solid foundation. Whether it's a house, a commercial building, or an industrial building of some kind, if you don't build a solid foundation, you can experience a variety of problems with the building down the line. But when you start with a solid foundation, the rest of the building can be erected with relative ease. And so, it's the same thing in our music careers. If we have a solid foundation on which to build, we're going to experience and enjoy more success. What's key is that we have a solid idea of what it is that we're building towards. If we have a solid foundation on which to build, we're going to experience and enjoy more success in our music careers.Share on X Your Music Career Blueprint So, you need to create a music career blueprint. The blueprint doesn't necessarily have to be ultra-specific, but it should give you a pretty good idea of what it is you're aiming towards. Whether that's becoming a professional songwriter in country music, or becoming a touring musician, or a session player in rock bands. Specificity helps create clarity, and when you have clarity on what it is you're moving towards, you can line up your daily actions with where it is you're going. One of my favorite quotes by William Hutchinson Murray goes like this: "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic. Begin it now." Now, I could offer an entire breakdown on that quote because there's so much in there that can be missed if you don't go a little bit deeper into the meaning of the words in the exact order in which they were placed, but the key point is that we've got to commit. Commit to a specific course and a specific set of actions that are going to lead to where it is that we want to go in our music careers. Commit to a specific course and a specific set of actions that are going to lead to where you want to go in your music career.Share on X Getting on Track & Adjusting Course Now it is better to begin and to do something than to not ...