291 – This is Why You Fail in Music: You Don’t Take Responsibility

The New Music Industry Podcast | MusicEntrepreneurHQ.com | with David Andrew Wiebe

There are many things that can stop you on your path to creating the life you love through music. But most things that will stop you fall under one major category – mindset. Mindset isn’t just how you think. It’s how you show up and how you deal with challenges, events, and circumstances as they arise. In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, David shares the importance of taking full responsibility and how it will transform your music career from the roll of the dice to counting cards. Download the PDF Transcription Podcast Highlights: 00:17 – Something that comes up time and again in The Music Entrepreneur Companion Guide 00:51 – The magic to taking full responsibility for your music career 01:53 – Think in terms of actions you took what you could have done better 02:05 – 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! The New Music Industry Podcast Unisex Fleece Zip Up Hoodie: Another exciting addition to our merch line. The official zip up hoodie is warm, comfy, stylish, unisex, and it’s even available in multiple sizes and colors! Click the “Buy this” button to add yours to your wardrobe now! The New Music Industry Podcast Unisex T-Shirt: It’s finally here – the official podcast T-shirt! It’s comfy, it’s stylish, it’s unisex, and it’s available in multiple sizes and colors. Click on the link, choose your size and color, and click on the “Buy this” button to get yours now! Transcription: Hey, it's David Andrew Wiebe. You know, something that comes up time and again in the early chapters of The Music Entrepreneur Companion Guide is this whole idea of taking full responsibility for yourself and your music career, and that should tell you how important it is. I'm not being repetitive to be repetitive. We all know the importance of repetition as musicians, right? If you want to get really good at something, whether it's playing the guitar or singing or writing songs, repetition helps reinforce the skills that we need to learn to become better at our craft. So, even though there's really nothing woo-woo about this, there is a certain magic to taking full responsibility. Your life transforms the moment that you take responsibility for everything that's ever happened in your life, and you stop blaming other people, other events, and other things for the way things turned out. It's about taking full ownership. You might remember that from an earlier episode. Again, this is not a harsh truth, but I don't know how artists hope or expect to be able to get anywhere in their careers without first taking full responsibility for who they are, what they've done, what they haven't done, outcomes produced, results produced, or otherwise. Oftentimes we think it's up to something else, someone else, some other factor. It rained that day. I wasn't feeling good. I was tired, and it's none of those things. So, instead of doing lengthy post-mortems, thinking about what went wrong in that gig and why it was so-and-so's fault, why the weather could have been better that day, and why was the hockey game on? Let's start thinking in terms of "What did we do to prepare for this show? How did we promote it? What were the specific things we could have done better?" That's a much more productive use of your time. Closing Segment So, if you enjoyed this episode, what you just heard was an insight from The Music Entrepreneur Companion Guide. You can get the book for free at MusicEntrepre...