Is your prayer your problem? Or your problem your prayer?
I will attempt an answer to the above questions by first of all rephrasing them to mean: Is it that you don't pray well enough that you are confronted with music career problems?, or that your music career problem is that you don't know how,when, where and what to pray?
Huh? Something is wrong somewhere! Then what is it? How come you pay tithes; you even fast and pray religiously, yet your music life is far from being profitable? It can even be said that your music life is an embodiment of troubles, struggles and hurdles which you must cross if truly want to make it at all in showbiz. Take a minute or more to think about that!
You are welcome from your soul-searching exercise back to this thought-provoking article.
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Where a request or prayer has been seen sent out, an answer must be provided,''else there should a vacuum formed"; because there can be no DEMAND without SUPPLY. As a matter of fact and entrepreneurial clarity demand and supply are directly related. The one cannot be thought of without the other; for they are one the same. If you demand a successful music career, the "god of music" will give it to you, because he is the great provider. The music industry has not denied you anything, it has given you everything.
Your music career requests have all been granted but "the noise of your endless prayers only grows louder and prevents you from hearing a single word" from your music career helpers. The barriers you created also prevents you from seeing and recognizing your destiny helpers!
As stated earlier, your music career request has been granted. So how? When?, you ask! OK, i will tell you!
Your Music Career Prayer point 1: To start with, you seek an employment opportunity in the lucrative and competitive Creative Industry and you were given a high paying job as a musical artist for you to sing for the people, sing with the people, dance for the people, dance with the people. yes, for you to sing and dance away their sorrows.
Your Responsibilities As An Artist.
Responsibility 1: Self-expression
It shall be your sacred duty to express yourself through the way you think, the way you talk and the way you walk. But don't get it confused yet! For Self-expression to take place there must be something in you first. So start reading educative and informative books to enable you build your vocabularies. Don't just read; research and meditate on all you've read so far. Know and understand the industry you want to earn a living from by studying with a qualified and practical music career coach or mentor who has actually helped other struggling musicians to achieve success in their music careers.
Responsibility 2: Entertainment
Responsibility two is entertainment. Be entertaining! Let your audience see,smell, hear,touch and taste your Self-expression (your street credibility). "Let them know your steez". Take their minds away from the sufferings and struggles of everyday life and you will be seen and regarded as their Number #1 entertainer; because that's who you are.
Responsibility 3: Impression
You've got to create the Impression in the mind's eye of your fans and clients of one who is competent, confident and consistent in producing and delivering value adding musical products and services.
Simply put,you are in the music industry to express yourself, entertain and impress music lovers.
Your Music Career Prayer point 2: "I Want To Make Money With My Talents"
After you were given musical talents, your worry naturally was how to convert your musical talents into money and power,and the same giver of talents answered your prayers by commanding you to:
- Get a complete knowledge and understanding of the music industry, and also take corresponding actions.
- Do away with the destructive mindset that every other musician has to fail and fall for you to sail to your music career Holy Grail. You see,in this industry, there are no competitors but colleagues who needs help just like you to make it successfully in your individual music careers. So collaborate instead of competing with other musicians.
- You should not go into showbiz with the sole intention of grabbing, making, taking or receiving money; for you are in this industry to create wealth through "the production and delivery of value adding products and services". And if you do this money, fame and every other thing the "god of music" has to offer will chase you left, right and center instead of chasing them.
Your Music Career Prayer Point 3: "I want to sell my musical talents, but I don't know where and for whom to sell to"
Answer: To start with "where to sell". Where to sell your talents is where you are now. It is from selling your music where you are now that you can move to selling in other places not close to you; because the road map to marketing musical products or services is a logical one, with one step following and being followed by yet other steps.
Now to "for whom to sell to".
Solution: sell to yourself first! If you can't enjoy your music, then, how do you expect other people to buy,listen and enjoy your music? If you are not proud of who and what you are,then how do you expect others to be proud of you? If you are currently not promoting your music career,then how do you expect others to promote it for you? If you can't feel,hear and see success in YOU, then how do you expect the "god of music" to give you the success you cannot see?
So you see? Until and unless receive and accept the "do it yourself principle"' your music career will continue to be all talk and no action with success being faraway from you!
In conclusion, when you've learned to treat your music career as a Business that needs your whole attention and concentration, then you have learned how,when, where and what to pray for in the music industry, and because you now know and understand success principles coupled with corresponding actions, everything you do shall prosper.