Quartet #13: Balancing Your Various Outputs, How to Get Better Sleep and More!
Here is the occasional reminder that if you ever find a link that you think other musicians who are on a similar path would also find helpful please send it along! You can reply directly to any of these emails and I will get it.
I can't promise that I will include every link in the newsletter but I sure would appreciate any suggestions that you have. Thank you in advance!
And without further ado, here are this week's ideas...
Quartet of the Week
1. How to Balance Full-Time Work with Creative Projects I think you'll find this article helpful even if you don't have a traditional full-time job that you are balancing with all of your creative work.
Good stuff on setting boundaries, expectations and time management.
2. Email an Article to Yourself With One Click
If you are like me then you constantly encounter helpful or thought-provoking resources online (hopefully this newsletter qualifies!)
I can't possibly read all of the resources I come across online in real time and need a way to keep track of it all. There are a number of ways to do this but this tool is great. Not life-changing but really good at doing the one thing it does.
This is not exactly a hot take but sleep is important! This article features a sleep specialist weighing in on how to overcome insomnia by breaking your behavior patterns. Interesting stuff!
4. How to Grow Your LinkedIn Presence I will admit that I almost never post on LinkedIn. But I've often thought that it would be a natural place for TEM to have more of a presence.
This YouTube video offers some specific tips on how to create content that gets you the kind of engagement that will help move your career forward.
This Week's TEM Episode
TEM282 features some priceless wisdom from Elizabeth Gilbert about not basing our sense of worth on things we can not control.
My Final Thought of the Week
Here's a quote to send you on your way:
“You’re never going to get everyone you know (let alone every random person on social media) on board with your decision to pursue creativity. You’re certainly never going to have unanimous positive feedback for everything you make. In fact, if the work you put out is only celebrated, beware.”
—Chase Jarvis
Running an idea that's a little scary by every person you can think of is a form of hiding because you'll never find a single one where everyone is on board with the idea, the timing, your tactics, etc.
Don't seek too much permission. And don't try to make art that everyone will love because it will suck. (At least that's how I'm reading the end of that quote! Ha!)
Cheers, Andrew
The Entrepreneurial Musician
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