A Quartet of Ideas - September 1, 2022
Yesterday was my first day teaching at West Chester University. I am filling in for a friend, Dr. Jonathan Fowler, who is on sabbatical. I have 17 (no that is not a typo!) tuba students for the semester, on top of my Hitz Academy students and TEM responsibilities.
It is going to be a busy and very fulfilling fall. Wish me luck!
And without further ado, here are this week's ideas...
Quartet of the Week
1. 20 Small Ways To 10x Your Personal Development
I like the premise of this list: Small things you can focus on to implement big changes in your life.
This is a great list. I especially like #2, #13 and #17 but think #15 is kind of dumb. But this entire list made me think!
2. Avoiding the Sunk Cost Fallacy
The Sunk Cost Fallacy describes our tendency to follow through on an endeavor if we have already invested time, effort or money into it, whether or not the current costs outweigh the benefits.
Avoiding falling into that trap is really difficult. And really important for any entrepreneurial musician.
3. Tool I Couldn't Live Without: OneTab
OneTab converts your tabs into a list and not only gets you more organized but also speeds up your browser. You can even share a list of tabs with someone which can be very handy for teaching or collaborating with someone on a project.
I've only been using OneTab for about a year and I can't remember life without it. Check it out!
We can create our own momentum by choosing something incredibly small to share with the world and that sure beats feeling overwhelmed!
This Week's TEM Episode
TEM275 is all about the power of starting small and it was inspired by idea #4 above.
And in that vein I put video of TEM275 up on YouTube! This is a major step for me and I'm quite proud of it. (There were a number of TEM episodes that went up on YouTube a while back but the person who did those stepped away from Pedal Note Media and I hit pause on video for the last year!)
It is absolutely nothing fancy but I worked my tail off this week using the brand new beta version of the Descript app called Storyboard. I'm proud of how it turned out but hopefully within a few months it will be clear that TEM275 was me just getting started!
My Final Thought of the Week
I will again leave you with a quote this week:
“Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.”
—Richie Norton
Take some action, even especially if it's small and watch what happens.
Here's to great ideas and to executing on them!
Cheers,
Andrew
The Entrepreneurial Musician
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