2024: Your Breakthrough Year?

Overwhelmed by all the different things you ‘should’ be doing as a musician?

Today’s professional jazz musician is expected to wear a lot of different hats if they want to book gigs, promote their music and build an audience.

It’s not surprising that it’s easy to get so overwhelmed that you end up doing… nothing. Or at least ‘nothing productive’.

Then you feel bad about it, see something that seems to be working for someone else and give that a quick go.

Sending pitching emails and booking requests, writing newsletters and social media posts, responding to emails, preparing promotional materials…

Ready to start fresh in 2024?

You don’t have to dig too deeply into the internet to find people raving about the power of goal setting.

You know: “You wouldn’t get in the car without knowing where you wanted to go, why are you doing it with your work?!”

As much as I think that analogy is overused, it’s true (unless you have young kids and you just want to make them sleep…)

Anyway, identifying a handful of long terms things you are looking to achieve and – most importantly – why it’s important to you – can really make a difference.

Not only does it allow you to work backwards and break down the steps needed to get there, it means your weekly work is free from the stress of “should I be doing this or this” – you know that it’s all getting you closer to the big picture.