You can have all the talent in the world and still be the reason nothing gets released.I say that because talent was never the hard part. The hard part is pressing the button and getting over YOU. Getting over yourself makes you a better person too. You come out the other side different. Everything starts with who you're willing to BECOME. Not the work. Not the industry. YOU first. I've had to ask myself and God who do I have to be to have the thing I want. The input is who I become. The outcome is just what that produces. A lot of us just want to have. We skip becoming the person who has it. Once you become that person, the outcome stops being hard. It just becomes what naturally happens next. Is it your skill holding you back, or is it you? Answer honestly in the comments.

Name your first three moves: I randomize or go to my target bpm. I find a midi, open scaler, or play the piano to figure out my progression. I find the sound I want for said progression Apathy - 1:55pm-2:25pm I got stuck on what I wanted the chord progression to be. I asked google to suggest something. I used a pack in a tool I use. Nothing worked. Finally I just played a baseline I liked and constructed chords around that. Suited Connector 2:34pm - 3:04pm When I chopped up the drum loop, I didn’t like how the tail on the crash was sounding. I played around with the fade out but it wasn’t producing what I wanted. So I just put the crash on a different track and automated a reverb return. Waving Hi 3:13pm-3:43pm I wanted started with a very boring chord groove. It took me a bit to find exactly how I wanted them to be placed. When I finally did, I didn’t have the time to arrange it all like I wanted. I tried to get to this assignment sooner. I started and never caught my flow until day of it being due. I worked on other things, but I have to admit I was avoiding it even though it wasn’t going to be that difficult to do.

Been a crazy week with my parents declining fast. But i still managed to get 2 sessions done and I am submitting my second one. 8-25 11:02PM -11:32 Name your first three moves 1. Find a chord or melody progression 2. Find a kick hi hat and snare pattern 3. fill in/color the track I stalled, overthinking the second half of the loop and vocal placement (I wanted a different vibe to give a chorus-and-verse feel in 16 bars), but then I did what I do naturally (emotion placement and trying to create a moment they will remember) and felt where they should go.

Everybody warns you about hate comments. Nobody warns you about the nice ones. One hate comment can drown out a thousand good ones, and it sticks out louder than it should, that part everybody already knows. But the nice ones sneak up on you too. Too much praise gasses you up and makes you a little less self aware. You stop checking yourself, and before you know it you're sitting in an echo chamber where everybody around you is just telling you you're good, and you've lost touch with what's actually real. The fix is balance, not more of either one. Let positive feedback push you forward. Let real criticism come from people who actually matter. And here's the part that changes everything... people who don't know you, who haven't invested in you, don't get to carry that much weight. Their opinion doesn't earn that much space in your head. But someone who actually cares about you moving forward, that criticism is worth more than any comment section, good or bad. Which one messes with your head more, the hate or the praise?👀👀👀

"To surpass people ahead of me, effort alone isn't enough—I need better systems, deeper practice, and time. Eventually, the goal is to become so invested in the craft that the work itself becomes the reward. At that point, every session is a win because it's shaping the artist I'm becoming". For a long time I've thought that winning Grammys etc would just change everything for me. That became my focus and my goal. However, I also remember being young and thinking when I got my first car, or first place by myself that I would be much more fulfilled. I think the two are similar in that fulfillment ultimately comes from how you feel about the person you are. We don't respect outcomes that are easy as much as we respect those that are a result of discipline and hard work. We know better than anyone else the amount of work we put in on ourselves. If you want to be the best, working hard is cool and all, but working better is what changes trajectory. This is why WoodaWorx has been essential in changing how I look at life in general with it's stress on systems. It doesn't deny ambition. I still want the placements and the Grammys. It just puts them in their proper place: as outcomes of becoming the kind of musician who naturally creates that level of work, rather than the sole reason to keep working.