I am constantly reminded of the pressure we put on ourselves to strive for greatness. Yet our expectations are often unrealistic.
Something that helps is to remind myself that in the present moment, “I am a great musician, I am a great family member”, or a great this or that hat that I am wearing at the time of me being unsettled.
In the present moment, there’s no backlog of mistakes to review. There is no worry of how people will receive you.
It’s just you versus the volcano, or whatever happened in that movie with Tom Hanks.
When I get up in the middle of the night and it’s time to go back to bed again, I try to tap into the present moment and remind myself that the only thing that’s important right now is my quality of sleep.
In the present moment, at 3:30am, I have nothing to worry about.
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New Song: When Everything Disappeared Twice
My newest song tapped into the present moment.
Making it was everything I ever wanted from the production process: For there to be an easy sense when I’m working on it, and to not fiddle all about with it when it’s time to do post-production.
It just bottles up a moment in time as best as you can.
This type of work sometimes feels fraudulent. We feel like there has to be a great struggle to finish anything and put it up for others to hear it. This track breaks that idea in half like a foldout chair being smashed in a WWF match.
Here is a preview of the tune:
Available on February 16th on my Infinity Waves label, but released to Patrons in advance.
Thanks for reading and I hope you have a fantastic week ahead. Get those bagels in the belly!
Elliott