Wow has it been a week already? Well actually I am still finding it hard to believe it is almost a year since the birth of The Weekly Songcast. 2009 will see me taking more steps to introduce more people to my music and to make concrete my desire to make a living from it. I’m so close I can see it, smell it and feel it. It’s a good feeling.
It’s what brings me to this week’s song. I decided mid-week that I would now be publishing a complete, produced song every week in order to make 2009 different to the past year. 2008 was when I started writing complete songs and I gathered some staggering momentum and to date have written nearly 80 songs in less than a year, so 2009 has a lot to live up to. I am intent on taking myself to a level I have never got myself before.
Here’s the thing. It took me longer to complete the full-blown song than I thought. It is all recorded, but not mixed, so it will have to be next week that visitors will be treated to more Power-Poptastic energy from The Boy @ Heart. From next week the theme will be a finished song and worthy of official release. So far I seem to be naturally going in a rock/pop direction. I think it’s the vocal harmonies I love doing those. I will post about the direction the music is taking very soon on the Boy@Heart site
After a bit of a crossroads in my life (yes another one!) for the last few weeks I have allowed a little bit too much internal conversation get the better of my judgment and have been perpetuating the big taboo of worrying about what I am going to do and how I will be able to pay future bills, making it all seem like such an important problem and today after some intense recording work I remembered the reality, which is that I know what it is I should be doing, so I am going to continue with that come what may. I might still get foggy thinking about how I can promote my music online and how I can improve my networking skills. In fact the main thing is to put a band together and play. I was thinking a trio with all members singing. I like the sound of that.
Anyway what with thinking about my situation, regardless of the size of my bank balance, I realized that I am a bloody rich bloke! I am also extremely grateful for the wonderful things I have in my life and I feel like a right ungrateful so-and-so for forgetting that at times. I give permission for anyone to remind me of it too. So… I live in a beautiful place, I have the opportunity to do something I love to do everyday and I have a staggeringly fantastic wife and a very supportive family on the other side of the World looking out for me too. If I forget any of that then surely it must be hard to justify deserving it, so there it is…
I’m a rich man. I was from the start
I believe that if you are totally happy and grateful right now in the moment with the way things are then that is the only way that what you desire can possibly happen for you. Seeing as it is you who creates everything in your reality, it stands to reason that if you are not appreciative of what you have, your thoughts are on that which you don’t want and guess what you’re asking the universe for when your thoughts are like that? You got it! More of the same old S**T. Clean up your thinking. You’re a rich person too!
Enjoy!
From Longing to Living:
